Event Archive

Part of the museum's evening lectures series, in association with Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Suitable for families with children aged 3-10 years but all welcome.

From March 2016, the Gallery in the Sir Duncan Rice Library is presenting a real first for the University of Aberdeen - 15 firsts in fact! The Special Collections Centre has a unique collection of all 15 first editions of the novels of Charles Dickens - many of them collected...

Join Fiona Musk to find out more about the historic records of NHS Grampian from the founding of Aberdeen Infirmary in 1739 through to the development of health care provision across the North East of Scotland.

An exhibition by Westpark Primary School exploring the life and experiences of a Peterhead whaler.

Nineteenth century architectural thinkers took for granted that there was a relation between the materials of which buildings were built and the locality in which they stood. In the twentieth century, that relationship was dissolved by the development of supposedly 'universal' materials - steel, concrete, plasterboard - but no new...

Join us for a fun-filled evening of crafts and storytelling for all ages as part of Winter Night at the Museums.

This event was cancelled

Roger Taylor, the internationally renowned historian of mid-19th century British photography, joins independent documentary and fine art photographer John Perivolaris in an informal discussion about George Washington Wilson and contemporary photographic views of the city.

"More to the world than Aberdeen and twal mile roon": highlights from the nineteenth century collections of Sir William MacGregor

Join Professor Ed Welch, Director of the Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture in conversation with Pete Stollery, Professor of Music, who produced the soundscape for the 'City of Ghosts' exhibition. They will discuss the collaboration behind the exhibition, their work on visual and sonic representations of cities, and what...