October 2024 Heritage cafe saw the unveiling of the Argyll and Isles Interactive heritage map This map was created with the funding from Museums Galleries Scotland and Historic Environment Scotland, with the expertise of our Digital Mapping trainer Sara McGourty. Argyll Heritage Map Continue Reading
Heritage Cafes : We have learned in recent years how useful and positive having online heritage cafes have been to other Forums around Scotland and would like to offer this “safe space” to our members where we can share our experiences, learn together, provide support and skills. ABMHF are delightedContinue Reading
from FACEBOOK Creative Scotland Creative Scotland website Help protect and celebrate Scotland’s intangible heritage by nominating your local traditions Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is a tradition, practice, or living expression of a group which includes things oral traditions, performing arts, festive events, and traditional crafts. In Scotland, intangible heritage practicesContinue Reading
Dear Member, Once again it’s time for the A&BMHF Annual General Meeting and we are pleased to invite you to our online event. (RECORDING BELOW) Holding the meeting online has several advantages – it saves time and cost in travel and means that distant members can join when they mayContinue Reading
Have you added your local heritage organisation website to the UK Web Archive ? https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/info/nominate The UK Web Archive endeavours to collect and preserve as many UK websites as possible in order to document our online national heritage for future generations. We do this through automated “web crawls” which retrieveContinue Reading
Delegates from across Scotland will be meeting in Oban in February for an event exploring the heritage and culture of Argyll and Bute. Organised by Argyll & Bute Museums & Heritage Forum, ‘Connecting Conversations’ is open to anyone who wishes to share their knowledge of or learn about, Argyll andContinue Reading
After so many years of not meeting up, we are delighted to be able to invite representatives of the heritage sector to ‘Connecting Conversations’, a day for us to consider how best to represent and understand the heritage of Argyll and Bute. ‘Connecting Conversations: Heritage – Tangible and Intangible’ will takeContinue Reading
The 2021-2 collaboration with CHARTS to create, fund and execute the Heritage Horizons project saw a major advance in attracting young people into many different local heritage situations. Heritage Horizons placements occured across Argyll, bringing young people into the practical heritage sector where they were involved in creating new QRContinue Reading
Argyll Aspires, a partnership project between Culture Heritage and Arts Assembly, Argyll and Isles (CHARTS) seeks to recruit an Archives Assistant trainee to be based in the Argyll Papers, the family and estate archive of the Duke of Argyll, at Inveraray Castle. As an Archives Assistant trainee, you will beContinue Reading
Culture, Heritage and Arts Assembly, Argyll and Isles (CHARTS) have two new job roles: Argyll Aspires, Project Manager, application deadline 4 July 2022 Argyll Aspires is a partnership project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported by a range of assessment providers, including Museums Galleries Scotland. ToContinue Reading