The Museum Ethnographers Group was established in 1975 and their aim is to promote an understanding of museum ethnography. Membership is not...

A common topic discussed in folklore from all over the world is the well as a sacred site. The tradition of pilgrimage to wells is still pra...

Our home away from home! Last Saturday the team headed up to Fort William for our second photographic venture at the West Highland Museum. ...

A great thing about the Carmichael Watson Collection is that you can never quite be sure what will turn up next. Here’s a transcription of ...

Just yesterday as I was searching the collection for seabean references I happened upon a description of the Creepy Stool that is housed in ...

All sorts of unusual information and anecdotage lurk in murky corners of the Carmichael Watson Collection. Here is a piece relating to the ...

In this blog and the next one we’d like to take a look at how Alexander Carmichael was first inspired to publish charms he had collected, in...