Event Archive

Join the Museums & Special Collections Curators for a Collections Close Up WINTER SPECIAL inspired by our Arctic Collections.

Your chance to chat with author and activist Zoë Playdon about her book 'The Hidden History of Ewan Forbes' and about her experience of frontline work in LGBTI human rights.

The University of Aberdeen Museums & Special Collections is delighted to welcome academic and activist Zoë Playdon to talk about her publication 'The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes' - a local story with international resonance - as part of this year's Book Week Scotland.

The 10th of November is the 200th anniversary of the death of one of the University of Aberdeen's most popular teachers, the scientist Professor Patrick Copland.

Join Dr Kara Layton (Biological Sciences) and Professors Timothy Baker and David Wheatley (Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture) to explore shells and their meanings.

Join Gavin Bell, John Corall and Stephen Reid from the Aberdeen and North-East Scotland Family History Society for this informal research discussion event.

The Northwest Passage presents work by artist Barbara Rae, inspired by her journeys from Orkney to the Canadian Arctic as she engaged with the topography and history of the land. These trips crossed the same paths as the Orcadian explorer John Rae during his expeditions between 1848 and 1851.