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Dan helping to mount swimming costume from the Highland Museum of Childhood with the George Bain jumper in the foreground

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Highland Threads…Many a Mickle Maks a Muckle

This week Dan Cottam, chair of MHH and manager at Grantown Museum, tells how a small idea led to the development of new projects in a pandemic – both for his own museum and for MHH in the form of

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