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‘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
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Artist in Residence Exhibition
‘Summer Has Been Turned To Winter By The Guns’ (2017)
at
The Highlanders’ Museum (Queen’s Own Highlanders Collection)
8th October 2017 – 18th March 2018
“It has been a real experience for staff, volunteers, visitors and local schoolchildren to work with our Artist in Residence on this project – seeing our World War One archive through fresh and creative eyes. Robyn Woolston’s exhibition is stunning, thought-provoking and presents a personal response to ‘The Great War’ from the artist and the children and adults who contributed to the project.”
Education Officer, Gill Bird
Project Blog: https://highlandersmuseumww1.tumblr.com
Location:
Fort George is a ‘registered Ancient Monument’ and for over 235 years has been a military garrison and training depot for a Regular Infantry Battalion of the British Army. It is currently home to the 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland.
Set in what was formerly the Lieutenant Governor’s house, the Highlanders’ Museum was founded over 60 years ago. The museum houses more than 5,000 gallantry awards and campaign medals won by the fighting men of the regiment as well as silver and personal artefacts. It also contains a set of Colours carried at the Battle of Waterloo and King Edward VIII’s regimental uniform.
Opening Times: 10.00am - 3.15pm / closed at weekends Dec & Jan
Admission to the Highlanders’ Museum (Queen’s Own Highlanders Collection) is FREE but you must pay an admission charge to visit Fort George. Adult - £9.00 Concession - £7.20 Child aged 5–15 - £5.40 Under 5 - FREE
Exhibition Fabrication: G & T Project Management
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