Robert Alexander Dakers (1866-1954) was a well-known Haddington artist who exhibited 28 landscape and rustic paintings at the Royal Scottish Academy, also showing at the Scottish Society of Artists and the Society of Northern Artists.
Sandybed house, better known as Bothwell Castle in Haddington, was not in fact a castle but a late 16th-century, wealthy town house which consisted of a main block running N-S and two wings which extended E to the river, enclosing a small courtyard.…
This reconstruction was part of the STRATUS Project 2021. Our view is that connecting with emergent digital technologies and changing digital literacies is key to re-energising our towns, villages and communities. Stratus will use disruptive VR…
Hamilton Palace in South Lanarkshire was once the grandest stately home in Scotland. It was developed over several centuries by the Hamilton family, eventually becoming a Palladian mansion which rivalled (and arguably surpassed) many royal…
Velika castle occupies a hilltop overlooking the Aegean near the modern coastal settlement of the same name in the modern prefecture of Larissa. The castle is certainly founded in the Hellenistic period, but only small fragments of the ramparts of…
The small building now known as St Rule's Church was once St Andrews' main cathedral. It was probably built in the early twelfth century, perhaps by workmen from northern England. The church is in the Romanesque (or Norman) style that was then…
We create computer simulations so you can see the world as it might be seen by those with brain-based impairments of vision, called cerebral visual impairment or CVI.
CVI-SIM is a collaboration between the Schools of Medicine and Computer Science.…
Thursday 24th October 2019
Held in Eyemouth by Blue Marine Foundation and Berwickshire Marine Reserve
Blue Marine Foundation
The Blue Marine Foundation (BLUE) is working to solve the crisis in the oceans through providing innovative…
The introductory video to the Virtual St Kilda exhibit at Taigh-Tasgaidh + Ionad-Ealain Taigh Chearsabhagh / Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre 2014.
St Kilda is an isolated archipelago 64 kilometres west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. It contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
St Kilda is a National Trust for Scotland UNESCO World Heritage…
A well-known and documented railway disaster. The Tay Bridge disaster was a tragic event that occurred on December 28, 1879, when the central spans of the newly built Tay Rail Bridge in Scotland collapsed during a severe storm. A train carrying…
Whithorn has been a benchmark in archaeology, particularly thanks to the extensive research dig carried on in the 1980s by Peter Hill and his team. The stratigraphy of the site and the extensive medieval graveyard which interrupted lower layers made…
Side Drum - made for use by the Pipe Band formed by Prisoners of War. It bears the badge of the Seaforth Highlanders.
Part of the Highlander’s Museum collection (Queen’s Own Highlanders Collection).
A collaborative project between ourselves and the Whithorn Trust. Whithorn embodies the history of Christian belief, power and practice in Scotland. A sacred place for Christians from at least the 600s, the cult of St Ninian flourished here for over…
This reconstruction was a collaborative project between the Open Virtual Worlds Team at the University of St Andrews and the Whithorn Trust.
The Whithorn Trust is a charity (Registered no. SC012178 ) which was set up in 1986 to explore the…
This exhibition, ‘Ceòl Uibhist a Tuath’, takes a look at the music of North Uist through the ages. We journey through the works of John MacCodrum and Dòmhnall ‘Ruadh’ Choruna, who still influence present-day musicians, such as singers Julie Fowlis,…
Part of the CUPIDO project. This is a collaboration between the Highlanders Museum, based within Fort George near Inverness, and the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews.
CUPIDO (Culture power to inspire development in rural…
This report was written as part of the Tay Landscape Partnership’s project to understand, conserve and celebrate our vernacular clay buildings. The Tay Landscape stretches from West of Dundee to Perth and then south of the Tay as far as Newburgh.…
Buildings that were “made out of the ground upon which they stood” were once the most common vernacular structures in parts of Scotland. For more information, visit: http://www.taylp.org/historicbuildings/clay-buildings-of-the-carse/
Music: The…
This report was written as part of the Tay Landscape Partnership’s project to understand, conserve and celebrate our vernacular clay buildings. The Tay Landscape stretches from west of Dundee to Perth and then south of the Tay as far as Newburgh.…
Virtual digital interpretation inspired by a collection of photos from various locations within the camp during the Civil War. Created to give a greater understanding of the scale and layout of the camp during its use. All black and white photos are…