Old Aberdeen House Decant Update: Moving On Up (to the Town House)
Museum Assistants Lisette and Freddie have been assisting us with the archives move project since April and August respectively. Here is their blog about what they’ve been doing in their time with us. Lisette: Planning and executing a major collections move is not something that often comes up in one's career, especially a career that is in its early stages of development. So when the opportunity arose to assist with such an undertaking at the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives, it became an exciting learning experience that I am sure will be invaluable and not easily forgotten. Adding a reference number to a volume A lot of the planning had already been done by the time we arrived through a massive stocktake, diligently done by the permanent archives team. This entailed listing everything that was in every store room and what needed to be done. From that list we got right to work relabelling collections, doing conditions assessments of the overall collections to ensure t...
