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‘Coming Home’ Mobile Museum visits National Trust Scotland Culloden as part of the ‘Don’t Mention the War; How We Talk About Conflict in Museums’ conference.

Keynote: Dr Jenny Kidd (University of Cardiff) / https://jennykidd.org 

More about the ‘Coming Home’ project: 

“Coming Home” is a travelling exhibition and events programme developed by High Life Highland (HLH) to commemorate the end of the First World War in the Highlands. Poignant individual experiences, explored through the documents, objects and photographs held in High Life Highland museums and archives and partner independent museums, are placed at the heart of the project. These individual narratives reflect the wider social and economic changes in the Highlands at the time.

Lead Artist / Robyn Woolston http://robynwoolston.com

Lead Fabricator (Mobile Museum) / Tony Harris http://gtprojects.wixsite.com/home

More about Culloden:

https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/culloden

On 16 April 1746, the final Jacobite Rising came to a brutal head in one of the most harrowing battles in British history.

Jacobite supporters, seeking to restore the Stuart monarchy to the British thrones, gathered to fight the Duke of Cumberland’s government troops. It was the last pitched battle on British soil and, in less than an hour, around 1,500 men were slain – more than 1,000 of them Jacobites.

Culloden Battlefield, Culloden Moor, IV2 5EU

‘Coming Home’ Lead Artist / Mobile Museum Design & Build

‘COMING HOME is a travelling exhibition and events programme developed by High Life Highland (HLH) to commemorate the end of the First World War in the Highlands.  At the heart of the project are poignant individual experiences explored through the documents, objects and photographs held in High Life Highland museums and archives and partner independent museums.  These individual stories reflect the wider social and economic changes in the Highlands at the time.’

Artist Brief: 

- To engage in 3 Artist-in-Residence days at the Highland Folk Museum (HFM)

- To deliver 4 full-day workshops that engaged with the visitors to the HFM alongside members of Caberfeidh Horizons in Kingussie

- To design and produce a 3-dimensional Mobile Museum inspired by the ideas presented within the workshops that would house replica objects and high quality copies, e.g. photographs, letters, postcards, medals

- The museum needed be fully interactive in a variety of media including sound alongside being designed to be sympathetic to the overall design of the touring exhibition

- Finally, the design needed to be robust and able to withstand heavy unsupervised use from all ages of exhibition visitor

Workshop outcomes:

- 415 people attended the workshops at the HFM from as far afield as Slovakia, Germany, Australia and America.

Project blog: https://cominghomeww1.tumblr.com

Co-fabricator and designer: 

Tony Harris / Exhibition Fabricator

W: http://gtprojects.wixsite.com/home & linkedin.com/in/tonyharrisgt

E: [email protected]