Clydebank Museum - What's On?
9 August 2007 - Collections Opportunities
Our Documentation Officer, Andrew Graham, is currently seeking volunteers to work on the West Dunbartonshire Council collections with him.
Opportunities are available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until December to help catalogue and photograph our collections of historical artefacts.
Travel expenses will be paid.
For further information, please e-mail Andrew Graham, phone him on 01389 772 011 or visit Clydebank Museum.
9 August 2007 - Learning Development Officer, Maeve Dixon
Following a successful large grant application to the Scottish Museums Council, a new Learning Development Officer has been appointed. Maeve Dixon will begin work at the museum in the early Autumn and will develop educational materials as well as visits for primary school children.
As part of this project, the Culture Section, together with the Scottish Museums Council, is offering susbidised travel to Clydebank Museum for all primary schools in West Dunbartonshire.
9 August 2007 - Scottish Museums Council Grants
The Culture Section have recently been awarded grants, totalling £10,000, from the Scottish Museums Council for the provision of Bustles, Britannia & Big Ideas exhibition materials, audio guides for the exhibition and monies to provide 3D models of artefacts in the exhibition for our online Museum Without Walls.
We also received monies for improved environmental monitoring equipment to ensure that the artefacts in the museum and stores are kept in the most suitable conditions.
The Culture Section was also awarded an INTACT grant, for the promotion of heritage to people with disabilities and this will be used to provide large scale photographs and reproductions from the local history and fine art collections for workshops.
9 August 2007 - A Night At The Music Hall
On Friday 31 August at 7.30pm, Clydebank Town Hall will welcome audiences to A Night At The Music Hall, courtesy of Britannia Panopticon Music Hall Troupe.
Tickets, priced £5 and £3 (concessions) are available now afrom Clydebank Library. Tickets are already selling well for this event, so make sure you book your tickets fast!
Further information on the event
12 July 2007 - Bustles, Britannia & Big Ideas
"Bustles, Britannia & Big Ideas: Living in the Victorian Era" is Clydebank Museum's latest large-scale exhibition, following on from the successes of "Their Past Your Future" and "The Three Queens". Organised by West Dunbartonshire Council's Culture Section, it is launched on Friday 27 July and opens to the public the following week. The exhibition is accompanied by a 6-month series of events.
Further information on the event
