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Work Experience by Susan
It was my father who insisted I try for the placement in the museum. The planning for work experience in Knox Academy is long and complicated, and I wanted to focus on more pressing matters. With Prelims looming just three … Continue reading
Work Experience
Hello, my name is Kallan and I have been doing work experience at East Lothian Council Museum Service for the past week. Work experience is when a pupil from a school goes out to work for a week just to see what … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Haddington, John Muir, museum, museums, Prestongrange, work experience
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Notes from Prestongrange – frogs and Princes
This is the first of what may be monthly post about the times and travails at Prestongrange Museum, one of what will soon be a vast number of East Lothian museums. I’m Kevin, one of the museum assistants here, and now … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Exhibitions, Prestongrange
Tagged battle day, events, jacobite, museums, Prestongrange
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Technology and the Museum Debate in Dundee
Last week I spoke at the ‘Technology and the Museum’ debate in Dundee as part of the NEON festival. Whilst there, I visited the McManus Art Gallery and Museum – it is looking great after its refurbishment. Personally, I always … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Blog, conference, dundee, mcmanus, museums, Museums Galleries Scotland, Social Networking
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End of Placement
I can’t believe four weeks is already over! It has gone so fast, but looking back it seems like I have done a great deal. Working at the East Lothian Museums Service has given me a much better idea of … Continue reading
Peeking Pigeons Popular on Facebook
I thought it was time for an update on our social networking side of things. I’ve been trying to improve two of our profiles over the past few months – our profile on Facebook and, more close to home, on East … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged , east coast fm, east lothian, east lothian buzz, Facebook, Internet, museums, pigeons, Social Networking
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Your top objects of the last decade
As the ‘noughties’ draw to a close, it’s time to look back over the last 10 years. Do you remember the Millenium bug which was going to wipe out all computers? Or the Sydney Olympics? Unbelievably that was 10 years … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Technology
Tagged , "John Muir's Birthplace", 2010, Christmas, decade, John Gray Centre, museums, Musselburgh, noughties, objects, Prestongrange
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The BNP and the Challenge for Museums
I was intending to come on here to write about how sad it was that the BNP were going to be appearing on BBC’s Question Time within Black History Month, when we’re supposed to be celebrating the postive contributions of Black … Continue reading
Work in East Lothian Council Museums
It seems to me that the relationship between East Lothian Council Museums and their communities, Dunbar, Musselburgh and Prestonpans is very close. Museum services can be beneficial to the development of communities in different ways, for example, educational functions (loan box delivery … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Technology
Tagged , Blog, Collections, communities, database, Flickr, museums, outreach, work experience
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Blogging – It is worth it?
I’ve been thinking about our museums blog alot recently. Should we continue with it? Does anyone really read it? I was asked to contribute to a recent study by a student at Leicester University which looked at why museums blog. The general … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged blogging, Blogs, east lothian museums, Leicester University, museums, tags
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