Museum Survey | Engage Aberdeenshire

Stories

The museum collections contain a treasure-trove of stories. We want the objects displayed to represent as many voices as possible from across the region. We are keen to hear what stories you want to experience in the new museum.

How important is it to you that the museum interpretation has the following. Please rank from 1 to 8 (with 1 being most important to you, 8 being the least important)

Discusses difficult issues such as colonialism, slavery, climate emergency etc

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Is provided in different languages

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Has audio and video elements

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Is for children, as well as adults

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Includes interactive elements such as puzzles and games

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Has permanent displays that don't change

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Has display cases and galleries that change regularly

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Has co-curated community exhibitions (where curators and community groups collaborate to create content)

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What sort of digital resources would you like to see? Please tick your top 3.

Are there any stories you would like to suggest we cover? Please add details below.

Objects

We want to know what objects matter to you. What do you want to see on display in the galleries? Are there objects you would like to see brought back on loan to the area so you could see them?

What sort of items would you like to see on loan? Please rank from 1 to 4 (with 1 being the most important to you, 4 being least important)

Objects that are from Aberdeenshire but have ended up in collections elsewhere

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Objects from elsewhere that tell important stories connected to Aberdeenshire

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Highly unusual and rare objects but with no connection to Aberdeenshire

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Objects in private collections that are rarely seen

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Are there items you know about or would like to suggest we borrow?

Temporary Exhibitions

The new temporary exhibitions gallery will be able to showcase touring exhibitions (national and even international). To help with the programming in the first few years, we want to know what kind of things you want to see exhibited there.

What kind of temporary exhibitions would you like to see? Please tick your top 3.

Art and sculpture exhibitions by old masters

Contemporary/modern art and sculpture

Movie/media related

Costume

Science and nature

Archaeology/history - different periods, topics or themes

Photography

Noteworthy individuals/retrospectives of significant folk's work

Other (please specify)

To fund these touring/temporary exhibitions, an entry charge would need to be made. There would be discounted tickets for children and others, but what would you consider paying for a full price adult ticket?

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Which of the following discounts might you be interested in if they were available?