Our weekly update
Our new set up!Continuing with our reorganising of the archive from last week (the creation of our dedicated shop area). We have also made some changes to the layout of our main room! We have created a more defined exhibition space which we hope will improve the...
What we’ve done this week!
Our new and improved shop space!This week the Dunkeld and Birnam Men's shed paid us a visit to help us with some DIY. We have created a designated shop area within our entry hallway to create more exhibition space in our main room! We have a fabulous selection of...
What we did this week…
It's never a quiet week here! Our volunteers have been hard at work condition checking our artefacts and prepping them for storage. This is a multiple stage task but is an excellent opportunity for our volunteers to explore our collection and learn more about museum...
What we did this week…
Jess Smith and attendees of the book signingWe have had a very exciting week! On Wednesday Jess Smith came to visit our midweek memories group and was the star at our first ever book signing. Midweek memories loved hearing Jess's stories and the book signing was...
Week in review
We have had another busy week here in the archive!We had a full day visit from a group of masters students from Abertay University studying Applied Games and research practice. They have been working with us to create a game about the history of Dunkeld and popped up...
What we got up to in January 2025
We had a busy January here in Dunkeld Archive! We began the first stage of our redevelopment project with a public consultation day and a formal evening launch event on the 17th of January . This included a display about our history as an organisation and an...
Young Archaeologist Club
Young Archaeologist Club Christmas party turned into a "paperchain workshop". We were so impressed by their initiative to find ways to work faster and as a team, although the lure of a prize for the longest paperchain helped ! The finished product speaks for itself....
Workforce for the Future project
Thanks to Museum Galleries Scotland funding we recently completed an amazing project with P6/7 at the Royal School of Dunkeld. The Workforce for the Future project is aimed at teaching children about the many different jobs within the heritage sector. Local...
Young Archaeologist Club had a guest speaker today
Our Young Archaeologist Club had a guest speaker today. Bob Carchrie, a local Archaeologist who works for Alder Archaeology, came to talk to the kids about what it like to be a Commercial Archaeologist working on projects like the excavation of the ground underneath...