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Collections Research and Travel Bursaries: Almond Vallery Heritage Trust
19th Jan 2010
Summary:
This case study illustrates how an MGS Collections Research and Travel Bursary assisted staff within one member museum service not only to improve their own confidence in working with a specific collection, but also greatly enhanced subject-specialist professional relationships and opened up new cross-sector research opportunities. For more information on the bursaries, see the Collections research and travel bursaries page.
There's no Place Like Home
16th Oct 2009
Summary:
This is a curator based project that explore the facinating history of Cala Sona to create a piece of commemorative artwork.
Edinburgh: City of Print
15th Oct 2009
Summary:
This partnership project encompasses cataloguing, research and digitisation to create a wonderful online resource.
Blackouts, Bombs and Bananas -Childhood in WW2
9th Oct 2009
Summary:
Mac Bus – Fife mobile museum is a free, award-winning service travelling throughout the Kingdom of Fife. MAC a converted purpose built double-decker bus, is an award-winning service designed to take museums to your door step. Over the years, it has visited 25 primary schools, community groups,care homes and events in Fife providing visitors with improved access and a state-of-the art exhibition space. It’s current exhibition‘Blackouts, Bombs & Bananas – Childhood in WW2’ is a ‘hands on’ display which explores wartime Fife from the child’s perspective. Its interactive display includes recordings of childhood memories, air raid sirens and wartime tunes with many of the artefacts and images from library and museum collections.
Making Sense of Museums
9th Oct 2009
Summary:
Making Sense of Museums is one of three innovative and ground breaking projects that were successful under the Museums Galleries Scotland’s Small Grant Scheme to promote intellectual access in museums for people with learning difficulties.
Volunteer Management at the Gordon Highlanders
12th Jun 2009
Summary:
Volunteers have always been involved in the running of The Gordon Highlanders Museum, but due to the commitment to their volunteers the number of volunteers and the range of activities they are involved in has expanded greatly in recent years, as has the museum itself. The Gordon Highlanders Museum is an independent, self-financing military museum in Aberdeen. In the last few years with the help of their 160 volunteers they have undergone complete refurbishment of it’s facilities, the overhaul of its programming, the development of its education services and expansion of its commercial activities. Since the review and development of volunteering from 2003-2007 there has been a great increase in the diversity of the volunteer workforce. The average age has dropped as more student placements have been made possible. Some of these young people have gone on to become museum professionals. The museum is seen as a community facility. For many of the older volunteers it gives them a sense of purpose. The veterans who volunteer to work with schools allow the museum to offer a unique educational experience. In this case study we find out how and why!
Exploded! How an MGS Collections Research & Travel Bursary lit up Falkirk
26th May 2009
Summary:
Collections Research and Travel Bursaries 2009-10 are once again available to curators (honorary and paid) and collections managers in MGS full member museums who are interested in developing their skills and increasing their knowledge of a sparsely documented or researched collection (or collection group) in their care.
This is the third year that the programme has been available: since 2007-08, it has enabled staff or volunteers from five member museums to undertake a number of different activities including spending time with collections specialists, visiting other museums and sites (in the UK and internationally) and researching other collections in order to share expertise or enhance access to/ interpretation of their own collections. This case study explains how one museum service approached their project.
Crawfordjohn Storypods
18th May 2009
Summary:
Crawfordjohn storypods is an innovative oral history project involving Crawfordjohn Heritage Venture and Crawfordjohn Primary School in South Lanarkshire.