Join us in the Grand Hall at Inverness Town House on Friday 13th November for a joint Anniversary Collections Conference by Inverness Museum and Art Gallery and the Highland Folk Museum.
Celebrating 201 years since the founding of the museum in Inverness and 90 years since Dr Isabel F Grant established the Highland Folk Museum, this one-day conference will focus on all that makes the museums' Highland collections unique. The event will be hosted by the ‘Highland Historian’, Andrew Grant McKenzie, and feature four guest speakers who have carried out research on our collections. Our speakers are:
- Jennifer Morag Henderson, "The Gin Heiress and the Maharajah: Inverness Museum's Jacobite Collections"
- Dr Rhona Ramsay,“'Scrappies, rag and bone, and back door small tradings’: how Travellers helped develop the collections of the Highland Folk Museum”
- Lyndsay McGill, R.L. Christie Works of Art, “Inverness Silver: Makers, Masterpieces and the Museum’s Story”
- Nysa N. Loudon, PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow, “The materials, ecology, and sensations of wild plant use in Scottish vernacular cordage and basketry at the Highland Folk Museum collection”
Meet the Speakers
View the full schedule and buy your tickets here: Anniversary Collections Conference at Inverness Town House. Conference ticket sales close on Wednesday 4 November.
For those unable to attend in person, we are also offering a digital access ticket. This will provide access to recordings of each of the talks by our guest speakers. Links to the recordings will be sent by approximately 3 December 2026 and will be available to view for three months following their release. Click here to find out more and book a digital ticket.
This event is supported by funding from the Museums and Galleries Scotland Small Grants Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund administered by the Museums Association.
