Exhibits and Collections

Members of the Historylinks Trust and Heritage Society continue to work on the cataloguing of museum artefacts, documents and photographs.

To enhance the museum catalogue, since 2005 there has been extensive image capture by digital photography of objects and the scanning of the numerous photographs, postcards and documents held by the Museum. As at June 2008 approximately 7,000 digital images have been produced, providing a visual record of about 60% of the objects in the museum catalogue. Complementing the image archive, documents have also been produced as portable document format (pdf) files.

A flavour of the objects on display in the museum is provided in 'Museum Exhibits' and 'From our collection' is a modest attempt to show objects held in store. In March 2008 the 'Scottish Museums Council' (now Museums Galleries Scotland) included the Historylinks website in the European 'Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe' (MICHAEL) database www.michael-culture.eu , as a "good example of a small museum using online digital images and descriptions to increase access to stored collections".

The Historylinks aim to increase public access to the complete museum collection progressed in June 2008 with the launch of an Image Library. At launch the image library provides access to descriptive data and images of about 60% of the museum collection (in excess of 4,000 image pages). A March 2009 target has been set to complete image capture of the remaining 40% of catalogued objects. The Image Library is interactive, allowing users to add comments concerning any image, and it is hoped that this will enable the museum to capture factual and background information to add to our catalogue data.

A Personal Computer is available within the museum so that visitors may access the image library.

Last updated: 28 May, 2008