Welcome to Aberdeenshire Collections & Education

We provide

Adult Learning

• We support Adult Literacy Groups and a variety of classes, using artefacts as a stimulus for discussion, writing and research
• We provide displays in libraries/community centres, backed up with Family Learning Activities
• We help Independent museums and Heritage Societies to interpret their collections and bring them to a wider public
• We take collections into care homes and sheltered housing, for reminiscence sessions
• We actively support University of the Third Age local initiatives
• Our Education Resource room is also available for talks, meetings and research projects

Curricular Resources

Displays

(some with Activity sheets and teachers’notes)

• A Victorian Childhood
• Unwrapping the Mummy
• Then and Now
• Toys
• Dairying
• WWI and WWII
• Cameras and Photography
• Early Lighting
• Fossils

Photograph Loan Kits

• 18th Century Peterhead
• Victorian Peterhead
• Education in Peterhead
• Peterhead Fishing
• Old Buchanhaven
• Lenabo
• Central Buchan
• Maud
• Cruden Area
• Old Fraserburgh
• Old Macduff
• Old Banchory
• Old Stonehaven
• Whaling
• Costume
• Quarrying
• Postal services
• “Buffalo Bill”     

Please phone 01771 622807 to book or view these loan kits or for more information.

Please be aware that there is a great demand for our displays and loan kits, and they are therefore issued on a first come, first serve basis.

Aberdeenshire Collections & Education, Education Policy

• Education Policy 2007 (pdf 58 kb)