This summer a group of historians, anthropologists and First Nation community members assembled at the Woodlands Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ontario.
They met to share knowledge and discuss research into the civilisations and arts of the Great Lakes region.
Part of their discussion revolved around an object from the collections...
Chantal Knowles studies three artefacts which tell the story of an Orkney adventurer who was shipwrecked and taken under the protection of a powerful island chieftain at a time when European visitors to this Pacific region were regularly captured and killed
It is appropriate that Scotland’s links to the Commonwealth are in the public consciousness as the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War is marked.
The Scotland Creates: A Sense of Place partnership project between National Museums Scotland and four other museums aimed to engage teenagers and young adults with local and national collections, by enabling them to co-curate exhibitions and events at their local museums.