Dingwall Museum

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The Simpson Family of Dingwall

A display by Forbes Munro

Sir George Simpson, born in Dingwall , became 'The Little Emperor' who effectively ruled a vast part of North America in the 1820s and 1830s as Governor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Of course he brought his family in to help.

Come and read all about it in the Museum!

Dingwall Museum 2025 Calendar

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A range of pictures from the last 150 years of Dingwall's life and times can be yours for £7.50.

Come to the Museum for your copy; it's waiting here for you!

DINGWALL MUSEUM BOOK GROUP in the LIBRARY

TUESDAY 24th September 2024 at 2:00-4:00pm

While there are many books that have elements of Dingwall's long and exciting history--see the listing elsewhere on this website--Norman Macrae's Romance of a Royal Burgh is the only attempt so far to gather the stories together. It was a hundred years old last year!

These chapters cover the earlier centuries of Pictish and Norse domination and lead into the Scots. The Earls of Ross had their castle here, fragments still stand. Battles were fought in the area or because of our power base: Battle of Dingwall, the Park, even Bluidy Harlaw.

Count the centres of faith in the town to know that the ecclesiastical history of the country has Dingwall prominent in the big picture

Before 24th September, following on from earlier discussions we’ll continue our journey along the history of Dingwall’s Municipal Story in Chapter XIV. And on the day come together in the Library to discuss what we’ve read.

The Library has several reference copies you can read on site.

Each meeting we’ll read a section of the book before we come together in the Library to discuss what we’ve read.

The Library has several copies of the book to read on site beforehand. Or you can find pdf copies here: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AghLXhpbwJvn3wEGw9Vryhoz_V57?e=z8hw3D.

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We have a new Collections Officer!

Starting with us on Monday 1st April

Our new Collections Officer will be providing recommendations on aspects of our collection, helping museum volunteers undertake an audit of it all, migrating information from our old cataloguing system AdLib to cloud-based Axiell, and training volunteers in auditing and basic conservation.

MGS Sponsorship 2024/5

Museums and Galleries Scotland has helped fund our future!

The Dingwall Museum Trust/SCIO is very pleased and gratified to welcome a large funding boost from Museums and Galleries Scotland. This grant of nearly £13,000 is being used to hire a museum professional to help us introduce a modern, cloud-based catalogue system for our large collection and to improve visitor experience at the museum. The museum is open to the public from Easter to mid-October, Wednesdays to Saturdays 10am-4am and entry is free.

Behind the scenes we invite volunteers to join in either at the welcome desk or with the displays, the cataloguing and auditing that goes on all year. There are bound to be surprises!

Areas affected: Collections Officer, cataloguing, conservation!

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GlenWyvis Sponsorship 2024/5

GlenWyvis Distillery’s GoodWill Fund

Our thanks to GlenWyvis Distillery’s GoodWill Fund for their generous donation to the Dingwall Museum.

This has funded a computer, printer, hearing loop and data projector to help us improve accessibility and the methods of delivery of our core purpose of illuminating Dingwall’s history for local people and visitors to the burgh, many coming with questions of their family origins and the land they or their predecessors came from and life they led.

With computer equipment and hearing loop on the Reception desk we will be able to look into our digitised records for immediate answers to queries, and with the data projector to help in outreach activities, all to improve visitors’ experience in the Museum and to take Museum knowledge out to the wider community.

IT and accessibility systems

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