Old Photos of Dingwall People
Can you name them for us?
Dingwall Museum is undertaking an audit, and we’ve found a number of old photographs relating to Dingwall people and places without any other information. Join us at Dingwall Library for sessions to look at some of these. Together we can crack some of these cases!
Next meeting Wednesday 26th February, 2-4pm at Dingwall LIBRARY
If you can’t make this one, but would like to attend future sessions on the last Wednesday of each month, please contact Dingwall Museum to express interest: 01349 865366 or enquiries@dingwallmuseum.com.
DINGWALL MUSEUM BOOK GROUP in the LIBRARY
TUESDAY 18th March 2025 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--and Colin MacDonald's series of books based on his column in the Ross-shire Journal bring to our lives stories of the Heights above the Strathpeffer from the end of the 19th Century up to the 1940s
We're reading the first book Echoes in the Glen
Before 18th March, following on from earlier discussions we’ll continue our journey along Colin's stories with Chapters 17-22. 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.
The Library has several copies of the book to read on site beforehand. Or you can find pdf copies here:
Echoes of the Glen - Colin MacDonald
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 Fire Brigade - Queen Victoria's one
24th September 2024
Our 1890s Dingwall Fire Brigade engine has been in store for years (except for an interlude on display in Inverness) but thanks to Frank Nicol and his people it's back on our premises and will go on permanent display next year!
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!
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!
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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