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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Professor Alexander Fenton
Professor Alexander Fenton, the acknowledged leading expert on Scottish rural life, has died. During his long career he was Director of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and of … Continue reading
The Power of the Plough
Two years ago the Rural Museums Network successfully bid to the Museums Association Effective Collections programme to run a ploughs project. The second stage of the exercise has been to consider and review the surprising number of ways that museums interpret … Continue reading