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Museums for Musselburgh and North Berwick
Posted 15 days agoThe Options Appraisals and Business Plans for Musselburgh and North Berwick have now been released for public viewing. They look at the best options for re-opening the museum in North Berwick and establishing a new museum in Musselburgh. The consultants, Jura, submitted the reports to East Lothian Councillors who have now asked for costings for the [...] -
Blogging - It is worth it?
Posted 17 days agoI’ve been thinking about our museums blog alot recently. Should we continue with it? Does anyone really read it? I was asked to contribute to a recent study by a student at Leicester University which looked at why museums blog. The general consensus seemed to be that blogging by museums was still in its experimental stages but the [...] -
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Hallowe’en
Posted 1 month agoIt’s only 9 weeks until Christmas. Bet that scares you more than Hallowe’en! We are planning our Hallowe’en party at Prestongrange Museum at the moment. I delivered a pumpkin for Claire to carve yesterday so I’m waiting to see what wonderful images will appear - perhaps a Beam Engine?! Jo, Sheila and I went to the [...] -
Summer is finally here!
Posted 5 months agoThe fact I have to open my office window every day and my cactus looks as if it’s dying tells me that summer is finally here! Only a few weeks until the school summer holidays start in Scotland and most people are sunburnt already. At Prestongrange, David’s Red Hot Pokers are looking lovely and survived the [...] -
Trip to Compton Verney
Posted 6 months agoAs part of our Grundtvig Project I went on a trip to Compton Verney, an art gallery in Warwickshire, from 27th-29th of April. The gallery is set in picturesque grounds and has a specially built learning centre - which I was very envious of! The gallery is a charity, funded by the Peter Moores Foundation, and only [...] -
My bags are packed
Posted 9 months agoI’m leaving. After nearly fourteen years it’s surprisingly hard to write those words without a twinge of regret. Museums have been my passion and working in East Lothian has been the largest chunk of my professional life. I will miss the place, the people, the collections, the things we have done and the exciting things [...] -
If the caption fits…
Posted 10 months agoI’ve thought on and off that it would be good to have something like an ‘object of the week’ on the site. But that’s a task I’ll delegate to someone else… before they all run and hide. Meanwhile, how about a caption competition? I’ve spent some of today putting together an advert to go on [...] -
Big Draw 2007
Posted 1 year agoAlso on Saturday, we held our Big Draw 2007, in which artst Jacquelyn Rixon led families in creating their own masterpieces using vegetable juices made from local vegetables, and using vegetables such as carrots as painting brushes! Participants created a large communal piece of art as well as smaller individual pieces of art. [...] -
Pottery workshop update
Posted 1 year agoThe second leg of our pottery workshop (see blog entry passim) took place on Saturday, and we’re happy to report that all of the pieces that went into the kiln came out in one piece, thanks to the care and expertise of the ceramicist who kindly offered to fire them for us, namely Diana Hoare [...] -
Pottery workshop pics
Posted 1 year agoTo accompany the Prestoungrange Gothenburg’s exhibition of pottery, we recently held a ceramics workshop at one of our museums. Antipodean ceramicist Rosie Little led 15 children in a hands-on introduction to slabbing, coiling and extruding terracotta clay. The results will be fired in a kiln and decorated in two weeks’ time. Some [...] -
Adult entertainment
Posted 1 year agoOur recent adult art classes at Prestongrange were a big success, and they culminated last Friday in an exhibition of the work produced by the participants, few of whom had ever attempted formal art, but were encouraged to do so by the enthusiasm and encouragement of the class tutor, Jacquelyn Rixon. Working with materials that have [...] -
If you go into the store today….
Posted 1 year agoMuseums are about things, stuff, objects, artefacts whatever you want to call them. The collections store in Haddington has somewhere in the region of 25,000 objects in it, from the everyday (a griddle pan), to the unusual (a stone anchor), from the beautiful (an Edwardian wedding dress) to the utilitarian (a piece tin). How on [...] -
Halcyon Daze
Posted 1 year agoI’ve been invited to attend a mini-conference at Hochschule Bremen on using mobile technologies and user-contributed content in developing guided tours of heritage sites. Let me first observe that Bremen is not an easy place to get to (or indeed away from) if the other end of your journey is Edinburgh. My round trip to [...]