To celebrate the launch of our 2011 leaflet of Museums in the Highlands, we are holding a photography contest through our new HMF Group on Flickr.com. You can see the latest photos added to the group in the sidebar of any page on our website, or by going to www.flickr.com/groups/hmf.
If you upload photos of your journey through Highland history before the 1st September, you will be entered into our prize draw with the chance to win from the following prizes:
- 1 Family Admission to Culloden Battlefield
- 1 Year’s Family Membership of the Gairloch & District Heritage Society (including free admission to Gairloch Heritage Museum for the 2012 season)
- 1 Year’s Free Family Entry to The Highland Museum of Childhood
- 1 Year’s Timespan Membership
- “Close-Knit” Publication from Timespan:
In this book visual artist, Julia Douglas, has taken a step into the past, the crofting past of the Scottish Highlands, to describe what it would have been like to live in a croft house in the 1800s.
Julia Douglas has established a name for herself as an artist who celebrates the seemingly trivial day-to-day household objects and playfully examines and transforms these objects, in order to draw attention to their significance in helping to tell a story about the inhabitants’ life and the culture in which they lived.
Close-Knit was made following a residency in Timespan Museum and Arts Centre in Helmsdale, Sutherland, and contains stunning images of the area, the croft ruins and the artworks she made (including an Estate Agent Brochure, which aims to sell you the idea of living in a croft ruin in Badbea, a clearance village in one of the harshest landscapes), alongside snippets of gathered information and quotes about life in these homes.
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