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What do you think makes a good museum label? MuseumNext has an interesting article on the subject.
The best museum labels do more than just provide information. A great museum label takes its reader on a revelatory journey, reframing perceptions along the way and provoking a lasting reaction.
By Anna Faherty, 2 September, 2019
Read more on the MuseumNext website.
Are your exhibitions fully accessible? There are some important points to consider in relation to all aspects of access.
Shape Arts has created a short guide for curators, programmers and exhibition organisers to give an overview of how to ensure that the exhibition you’re putting on is accessible and inclusive of disabled people.
Read the guide and find out more on the Shape Arts website.
The museum displays the social and military history of the Royal Burgh of Dingwall in sound, pictures and text. There is a reconstructed local smiddy and kitchen, temporary exhibitions throughout the season and a small shop.
Town House, High Street, Dingwall, IV15 9RY
Tel: 01349 865366
Email: enquiries@dingwallmuseum.co.uk
Website: www.dingwallmuseum.co.uk
Visit the site of the last hand-to-hand battle fought on mainland British soil. Learn about the Jacobite uprising through the eyes of real people. It’s a great day out!
Culloden Moor, Inverness, Highland, IV2 5EU
Tel: 0844 4932159
Email: information@culloden.org.uk
Website: www.nts.org.uk/culloden/
Cromarty Courthouse Museum is housed in an elegant A-listed 18th century townhouse, refurbished in 1980s. It has two floors with a single storey jail extension, added in the mid-19th century to house 3 cells and an exercise gallery. The courtroom upstairs has the original fixed court furniture.
We are a community museum welcoming visitors curious about local history and Highland justice as experienced in our local parishes of Cromarty and Resolis. There are 4 story soundscapes in the museum, based on real stories and told using our memorable mannequins. Two trials can be heard in the courtroom – gems of stories concerning 18th century vandalism and a pub brawl with undertones of racism. The unique Cromarty Fishertoun dialect is used to full effect in these trials. In a prison cell, a Victorian era prisoner, fallen on hard times, talks to his jailer. From behind his desk, the eccentric 17th century laird of Cromarty, Sir Thomas Urquhart, will confront you with one of his many obsessions! All the voices used in our recordings are members of our local community. There are QR codes on the walls which allow you to link to the text of the soundscapes on your phones.
Our museum collection consists of objects, paper archives, books and photographs. These illustrate the history of the area from the foundation of the medieval burgh through its heyday as a fishing community and commercial centre and forward to the 21st century. We run a programme of changing exhibitions that often involve community input.
There is a shop selling a range of locally produced goods as well as items made specifically for the Courthouse from elsewhere in Scotland. There is an attractive walled garden to the rear of the building that has been nurtured over the last few years as a wild-flower garden and orchard.
Email: courthousecromarty@gmail.com
Website: cromarty-courthouse.org.uk
Facebook: @CromartyCourthouseMuseum
Instagram: @cromartycourthouse
