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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

Claire Petty, MA Hons. (Abdn), Pg Dip Mus & Gal Stud.(St. Andrews), AMA.

Curatorial Officer - Service and Community, Aberdeenshire Heritage.(Currently Acting Senior Museums and Heritage Officer)

Role - Operational management of South Aberdeenshire Museums (Kincardine & Mearns, Marr & Gairoch) including Banchory Museum, Carnegie Museum, Stonehaven Tolbooth Museum, Brander Museum and Garlogie Museum. Collections specialism - Art History, fine & applied arts & museology.claire.petty@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Post Vacant - Curatorial Officer - Education and Access

Role - based at service HQ Mintlaw. Oversee new public access Education Resource unit (ACE)and organise learning resources. Prepare interpretation materials. Programme exhibitions in Aberdeenshire's largest gallery and other venues. Seasonally manage Peterhead Maritime Heritage.ann.bowes@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

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. david.bertie@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

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.
catherine.mcconnell@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Helen Chavez:My training includes courses in palaeography, documentation, archives and records management, paper conservation and the care of Arms & Armoury collections.

Documentation Assistant

Role: I document and catalogue our extensive collections as well as do research and assist our Photography and Multimedia Technician in caring for the photographic archive. Special interests include militaria, agricultural history, archival material and manuscripts and early Bronze Age beakers.helen.chavez@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

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.jamie.cutts@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

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.james.cowie@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Annie Scott B.Ed (Hons)
Travelling Education & Access Officer (Adult Learning)
based at Aberdeenshire Heritage, funded by North East Museums Partnership

Role: museum outreach to communities using collections, illustrated talks, activities and events. Collections specialism: illustrated resources, storytelling.annie.scott@aberdeenshire.gov.uk

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

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