Today is Charles MacIntosh (The Perthshire Naturalist)’s Birthday. Charles was born in Inver near Dunkeld on the 27th of March 1839, he was known for his contributions to the Perthshire Society of Natural Science particularly his contributions around fungi. Charles was also an accomplished musician and composer. Charles MacIntosh was also known for his close friendship with beloved children’s author Beatrix Potter. The two met when Beatrix was summering in the area with her family and Charles was their local postman. Charles passed away in 1922.
We have had lots on this week! The Niel Gow festival was last weekend, we were open on Saturday to take part in the festivities. The festival brought a great deal of activity to the village, for more info about the event, visit www.nielgowfestival.co.uk .
Monday afternoon was spent with our memories group, we are beginning to identify photographs for use in our school reunion on the 25th of April! This event is for former pupils from the 1940s through to 1970s, tickets cost £8 (plus booking fee) and are available in the archive or via this link.
On Tuesday we met with the other members of the Tayside museum forum which was convenient as Imogen attended the Intermuseum forum on Wednesday. This is an excellent opportunity for other members of the Museum Galleries Scotland geographical forums to interact with one another and find out about what’s going on across Scotland in the Heritage sector. This meeting was held in the Dovecot studios in Edinburgh, a fantastic space which is in use as a textile studio as well as a gallery.
View of the main studio space in the Dovecot Studios, it was formerly a public bath (swimming pool)
Our volunteers have been hard at work again this week, our front of house team are starting to meet more and more visitors as the tourist season approaches and our other team members have been busy digitising, transcribing and researching as part of our National Heritage lottery funded project.
Thursday we hosted our Young Archaeologists’ Club and our Archaeology and History Club (a busy day for Archaeology)! The Young Archaeologists’ were playing a game of History based pictionary, it is fabulous to see how many artefacts from different eras they can identify. Our adult archaeology and History Club had a skills session with Bob Carchrie to consolidate their knowledge before the summer excavation begins.
One of our young archaeologists’ drawing a canon and accompanying canon ball (which seems to be sad that it has been fired)
March has gone so quickly! We have added information for all of our upcoming events to our what’s on page, check it out to find out what we’re up to and start booking in your summer events tickets…