Museum awarded funding to improve archaeology collection access

August 3, 2015 at 10:52 am

A Norse comb from Buckquoy, Birsay — one of the many items that form the Orkney Museum's archaeology collection. — A Norse comb from Buckquoy, Birsay — one of the many items that form the Orkney Museum’s archaeology collection.

Orkney Islands Council has secured funding from Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) to make Orkney Museum’s world-class archaeology collection easier to access by researchers and the wider public.

This will fund an 18-month contract for an archaeology collections assistant, who will be responsible for cataloguing the collection and creating digital resources that improve access to and understanding of the collection.

The funding comes from MGS’s Recognition Fund that formally recognises and invests in collections of national importance in non-national museums and galleries in Scotland.

The Orkney Museum’s archaeology galleries were established in the 1980s and cover the Neolithic, Iron Age, Vikings and Pictish periods.

The archaeology collections assistant post will be advertised in September 2015.