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Knowledge Exchange Training

Every year we provide free workshops to colleagues in Scotland’s museums. 

Current courses for the 2012/2013 season can be found below. Please use the online booking facility to register your interest in the course in the first instance, alternatively please download the registration form.

Courses 2012/2013

An introduction to Hazardous Materials in museum collections

13 June 2012
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

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An Introduction to Ethnographic Collections

4 September 2012
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

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Build your own box

Loan boxes inspired by the STICK Old Tools, New Uses project

13 September 2012 (half day)
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Coatbridge

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An Introduction to Object Handling

11 October 2012
McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock

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More courses and workshops will be advertised shortly. Please check back soon.

Responsive programme

We want to find the best mechanism to respond to collections needs, and to achieve this we are happy to run workshops in any part of Scotland. If you would like us to run a workshop locally, please contact us on partnerships@nms.ac.uk. See the list of previously run courses below for ideas.

Catalogue of courses

  • Care and Management of Domestic Technology
  • Purchasing Museum Objects
  • Care and Management of Silver Collections
  • Contemporary Collections of Applied Art and Design
  • Dealing with Disposals
  • How to borrow from the National Collections
  • Working with Volunteers in Collections
  • How to Handle Objects in Museum Collections
  • Working with Large Objects in Collections
  • Introduction courses:
    • Loans
    • National Fund for Acquisitions
    • Hazardous Materials in Museum Collections
    • Bird Collections
    • Entomology Collections
    • Roman Archaeology
    • Pest Management
    • Mammal collections
    • Treasure Trove
    • Digitisation

Please contact Megan Combe to discuss running a course in your area on m.combe@nms.ac.uk.

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Examining objects in a Silver workshop

Examining objects in a Silver workshop.

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Examining specimens in a Pest Control workshop.

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