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What if you museum collection needs working knowledge of medical instruments to really understand what these items actually do? How do you overcome that barrier to allow the public to really engage with your collection? It's a problem the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow have been seeking to solve in this video case study.

In 2008 the entire collection of Aberdeen Gallery and Museums was designated as a Nationally Significant Collection by Museums Galleries Scotland. This Nationally Significant Collection ranges from fine art, to celebrating Aberdeen’s industrial heritage.

Festival of Museums is the perfect excuse to get a bit closer to that lost era of style and opulence, and introduce our visitors to Style at Sea: A Night of Cocktails, Dancing and Glamour.

2009 was an important year for the Scottish Football Museum. In October the collections held by the museum were Recognised as being Nationally Significant. Four months earlier the museum embarked on a one year pilot project, using images from its collection to support people living with dementia.

“Without promotion something terrible happens… Nothing!” …and with that piece of wisdom from the circus maestro P.T. Barnum, we kick off this blog on taming the lion that is promotion. Get this right and your event will be Big Top rather than Big Flop, so invest some effort into this early on and those punters will step right up without any last minute clowning around.

Crafting the Mine is a Small Project Fund project of the National Mining Museum Scotland (NMMS) who worked with Stephen Reid of Immersive Minds to recreate Lady Victoria Colliery entirely in the popular video game, Minecraft.

Often when you hear us talk about recognition, it’s usually in conjunction with the word “scheme”. Back in October’s Connect, we wanted to focus on the gaining recognition from achievement and success.