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Who we are
& what we do

Who we areWe operate 12 Museums, graded annually by VisitScotland.

Aberdeenshire Heritage is the museum and heritage service of Aberdeenshire Council.  The museum service forms part of the Council’s Education Learning & Leisure Service.  We have eleven Registered museums across the county from Banff and Fordyce in the north to Stonehaven in the south.  The museum service’s headquarters is in Mintlaw, in a purpose-built complex including design and photographic studios, conservation laboratories and stores.

Staffing

David M. Bertie, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., D.I.C., D.M.G.S., C.Geol., A.M.A., F.G.S., F.S.A.Scot.

Curatorial Officer – Documentation & Conservation

Role - Line manager for documentation and conservation staff; collections management; facilities manager for HQ building; curator for Banff Museum. Collections specialism: family history generally; ecclesiastical history generally, especially Scottish Episcopal Church and northeast Scotland; Scottish heraldry; local history, particularly Peterhead area.

Catherine McConnell :BSc (Hons), PhD (Chemistry), C.Chem MRSC, MA in Conservation of Historic Objects.

Conservator

Role - Preventive and remedial conservation of the collections, which includes writing procedures for Collecitons Care and Disaster Planning, monitoring the environment in the Museums and stores, ensuring that objects are properly packed, transported, labelled and stored, carrying out remedial treatments on objects requiring them, or recommending specialist treatment by other conservators.

Helen Chavez :Training in palaeography, archives & records management, paper conservation, ancestral tourism and the care of arms & armoury collections.

Documentation Assistant

Role - Extensively researching and cataloguing all collections, managing the Archives and Reference Library and working with Education, Outreach and Exhibition Officers on creating handling kits, workshops and exhibits. Also dealing with enquiries from the public and other bodies, enabling access to the archives for research purposes. Working with the Photographer & Multimedia Technician in caring for and cataloguing the photographic archive. Supervisor for volunteers.

Special interests include arms & armour; archival material (both printed material and manuscripts); Bronze Age beakers and local archaeology; egyptology and ethnography.

Jamie Cutts

Photographic and multimedia technician

Role - Based at service HQ Mintlaw. Provide digital and wet-processing photographic service for museums, educational and online resources included website and catalogue in addition to supporting exhibition displays, conservation of photographic collection.

James Cowie

Technician

Role - Based at Heritage HQ Mintlaw. Oversee conditions in museums and resource centre facilities and liaise with property maintenance departments. Build workstations, exhibition plinths and panels. Tranportation of museum objects and set up of display cases.

 

For further information please contact : museums@aberdeenshire.gov.uk or browse through related links.

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