Tayside’s Treasures IV - A Cornucopia of Objects from across Tayside’s Museums
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- What do a hand-painted glass lantern, a glengarry made by prisoners-of-war and a chocolate nurse have in common? They’re among the many thousands of unique and fascinating objects held in museums around Tayside. This recording of a special live online event features a series of short presentations from staff and volunteers in 14 different museums across the region, in which you’ll discover that even the most ordinary looking object can have an amazing story to tell!
Our programme features:
Dawn Evers (Hospitalfield) - Idleness, a painting by Patrick Allan Fraser
Carly Cooper (The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum) - a WW1 chocolate nurse
Angus Macintyre (Museum of Abernethy) - the Oliver Plough
Fiona Connah (Black Watch Castle & Museum) - a Glengarry made by POWs during WW2
Keren Guthrie (Blair Castle) - a Whisky find at the Castle
Alex Rive (University of Dundee Museums) - an embroidered panel of Newhaven Fisherwomen
Emma Puranen (Discovery Point) - a copy of the South Polar Times
Ingrid Leon (Angus Alive) - an East India Company uniform
Caitlin MacLeod (HMS Unicorn) - historic instruments from the HMS Unicorn Silver Band
Isla MacFarlane (Innerpeffray Library) - the Library’s 1859 Visitor Book
Ruth Brown (Dunkeld Community Archive) - a Victorian hand-painted glass lantern which hung in the Duchess Anne building in Dunkeld
James Wylie (V&A Dundee) - a piece of 16th-century painted wooden ceiling from Craig Castle
Amy Fairley (Perth Museum & Art Gallery) - J D Fergusson’s 1916 sculpture Summer: Head of Woman
Ellie Smith (Dundee Museum of Transport) - a 3D printed model of the Werbell car