Men at work

Closed for re-furbishment!

 As the building work is now under-way we will be closing the Museum from the end of Tuesday 31st July. 

Watch this space!

Now the floors are out!

Yes we are down to the earthen floor now but no lost treasure has come to light yet!

Oral history training session

The meeting was held in the Moffat Initiative office and attended by 9 volunteers.

 Alison Burgess, from Dumfries, talked us through the procedures of selecting appropriate themes for our oral history project, how to conduct interviews and the use of the  recording equipment.

The next session for the group to get together and make plans will be notified shortly.

Building work starts

Old kitchen cupboards moved upstairs for temporary storage.  George Hunter starts preliminary work.

Sarah in the Moffat Initiative training room

Meet Sarah Cartwright, our new Museum Co-ordinator, who is busy here making contact with volunteers and planning training.  Volunteers who are involved in the Oral Project will be meeting for their training here on Thursday morning.

Temporary Museum Office

While building work is in progress Sarah will be using the Moffat Initiative office as her base and all the training meetings will be held in the meeting room there.

The 'get togethers' for the 3 initial projects were held last week and there will be a training session for the oral history group on thursday.

Office for Sarah

It's not the ideal office accommodation but we laid a carpet and cleaned up one of the upstairs room in Harthope House for Sarah to use from tomorrow.  Photograph to follow!  Sarah is going to be busy meeting people in the town and getting to know Moffat over the next few weeks.  Keep a look out for her.