Following on from the success of the museum’s “Grand Tour of the West Highland Museum Top 100 Objects” event in February, the museum is jointly hosting another event with the University of St Andrews. This second in a series of events is focusing on the museum’s West Highland 100 digital gallery, an online gallery created in partnership with the University of St Andrew’s Open Virtual Worlds team to celebrate the museum’s 100th anniversary in 2022.
Join us on Zoom to find out more about the Strange Plate, a copper printing plate commissioned by Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746 to make paper money to finance the 1745 Jacobite Rising. The plate was not used at the time, but printed from on three occasions in later centuries by gifted printers and artists. The museum has printed from the Strange Plate again in 2021 and prints will be sold to raise funds for the museum this summer. To find out more about this project and objects associated with the plate showcased in our digital gallery, register for FREE on Evenbrite.
A short film about the project by Glasgow film maker, Jen Martin, will be premiered at the event.
Panellists include:
Johnathan Calloway, author
Ian Fitzgerald, author
Catherine Ann Cassidy, University of St Andrews
Dr. Alan Miller, University of St Andrews
Alastair Clark, Edinburgh Printmakers
Colin Fraser, Lyon & Turnbull
Chris Robinson, West Highland Museum
Ian Peter MacDonald, Chair of West Highland Museum
Vanessa Martin, Curator, West Highland Museum
To join us for The Strange Plate of Bonnie Prince Charlie event on Thursday 15 July, 1pm – 3pm, click on this link to register