Monday Memories started our week off with an excellent session, the focus still remains on School reunion prep as the event is on Saturday the 25th of April! Tickets are still available online or in person from Dunkeld Community Archive.
Our audit assistant Kate had a busy day on Thursday, she went on a visit to the Highland Archive Centre to learn about the basics of paper conservation with High Life Highland’s senior conservator Richard Aitken. This was a fantastic opportunity for Kate to learn about the basic skills required to undertake preventative conservation work on the collection back in Dunkeld. She had a really interesting day, a big thank you to Richard and the other staff at the Highland Archive Centre for hosting Kate for this training session. If you would like to find out more about the Highland Archive centre or the collections that they hold, you can do so via this link.
Richard hard at work in the archive centre
We have had lots of researchers in to see us this week, with topics ranging from the Cathedral to tracing family history . If you are interested in researching in the Archive you can submit requests online or get in touch to enquire about our collections.
Ruth has been hard at work with her MGS management apprenticeship work this week and Imogen has been working on events advertising and accreditation policies.
We have been prepping and advertising our summer events, tickets for all upcoming events can now be found on our eventbrite page. Details for all upcoming events can be found on our what’s on page.
Our next event is the Palaeography (Old Handwriting) identification workshop with Dr Lucy Dean from UHI. This will be on the 30th of April at 7:30pm in the Perth Arms. Tickets available via this link.
We have added a new event for our archaeology and History Club! Jamie Kunka has agreed to lead a workshop on glass identification after the success of his exhibition in the archive. Jamie is known as “Bottles from the deep” on instagram and has over 70,000 followers! Tickets for this event are live now.
Click through the gallery below to see the posters for all of our upcoming events. Tickets are available from eventbrite.
