November 2018
Crieff Community Volunteer Festival
10/11/18 13:54
Today we had a stand at the Crieff Community Volunteer Festival, in the Artspace, manned by Louise Hall and Andrew Rodger. It was an opportunity to network with other voluntary groups from the area and it was good to meet new faces, especially people who were interested to talk about the museum.
We recorded the details of a few more supporters and also registered with Arleen Sinclair for the Community Choices Planning Meeting which will be held at the end of this month or early next month, preliminary to setting the criteria for applications from the community for the new funds awarded to Crieff. £40k will be available to be distributed to worthy causes and the apportionment will be determined by popular vote. So please do consider supporting the museum project when it comes to voting time. Funds will be distributed in March next year. See also here: CCS alert.
I am sorry I only remembered to take a photo at the end, after Louise had left and so she does not appear in the pictures on the display board, as she should.
On a different subject, Sketchfab sent me a link to a new scan which is impressive and I thought I would share it with you. We see this kind of technology as being very valuable for making museum artefacts visible to all, even when they are in situ elsewhere or if there is not enough display space available. We could find that as much as 80% of the things we want to show in the museum cannot be displayed, for one reason or another, and scans like this may help us to show much more than we otherwise would. We will have an opportunity to integrate on line displays of artefacts which can be viewed anywhere there is access to the internet, as well as on site at the museum, perhaps in the same context as items which are on display or in relation to active display themes. If you click on the link below and let the scan load, you will then be able to move it around, zoom in and click on the numbered annotation points.
https://sketchfab.com/models/695d8167179749019025776d24de1572
We recorded the details of a few more supporters and also registered with Arleen Sinclair for the Community Choices Planning Meeting which will be held at the end of this month or early next month, preliminary to setting the criteria for applications from the community for the new funds awarded to Crieff. £40k will be available to be distributed to worthy causes and the apportionment will be determined by popular vote. So please do consider supporting the museum project when it comes to voting time. Funds will be distributed in March next year. See also here: CCS alert.
I am sorry I only remembered to take a photo at the end, after Louise had left and so she does not appear in the pictures on the display board, as she should.
On a different subject, Sketchfab sent me a link to a new scan which is impressive and I thought I would share it with you. We see this kind of technology as being very valuable for making museum artefacts visible to all, even when they are in situ elsewhere or if there is not enough display space available. We could find that as much as 80% of the things we want to show in the museum cannot be displayed, for one reason or another, and scans like this may help us to show much more than we otherwise would. We will have an opportunity to integrate on line displays of artefacts which can be viewed anywhere there is access to the internet, as well as on site at the museum, perhaps in the same context as items which are on display or in relation to active display themes. If you click on the link below and let the scan load, you will then be able to move it around, zoom in and click on the numbered annotation points.
https://sketchfab.com/models/695d8167179749019025776d24de1572