What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

Elizabeth Kostova leading her writing workshop.Our update begins with the archaeology and history club events from last Friday and Saturday. Dr Kate Britton presented a fabulous talk on Palaeoarchaeology and archaeological science which was fantastically attended....

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

The Young Archaeologists' Club had a lovely time creating viking beads and oval brooches. This week we have been full steam ahead starting to organise our summer events.  We are running events through our Archaeology and History Club as well as our Living History...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

We have been very busy learning this week! On Monday we had our memories group, we were given a copy of a fantastic photograph of the Dunkeld and Birnam Women's football team from around 1946. Prior to this donation we had nothing in our collection relating to the...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

A spectacularly unusual visitor popped in to see us this week, Karina the Barn owl travels with her owners and visits a variety of locations across the UK. If you are interested in Karina's travels, you can follow her facebook page here. Continuing the unusual theme,...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

We will start this week's update by saying thank you to everyone who attended our archaeology and history club talk last Friday with Lindsey Gibb. This talk was about the history of the Fair Maid's House in Perth.  Our Next event is a ceramic identification Skills...

What we have done this week…

What we have done this week…

The unveiling of the new Shakespeare trail statue, read more below! Photograph by Graham RobbWe wouldn't be able to function without our amazing volunteers.  We are a small independent organisation and without the help of these fantastic individuals, we would not be...

What we’ve done this week

What we’ve done this week

An exciting start to this week, everyone please say hello to Kate our new temporary collection audit assistant! Kate studied history at University and had previously volunteered with us for over a year. She is very familiar with our collection and is interested in...

What we’ve done this week…

What we’ve done this week…

As part of our National Lottery Heritage funded project, we are going to be consulting with a variety of different local community groups to ask them what they would like to see from in the new heritage centre as part of our redevelopment plans. We started this...

What we have done this week…

What we have done this week…

Inspired by the weather at the end of this week, to start we have a photograph of Dunkeld after the River Tay flooded in 1993.  Do you have any memories of wild weather in the local area?Monday memories got our week started yet again, they had a good look through some...