Find the stories
Research people, places, events and everyday life in Alness and discover the history behind familiar parts of the town.
Discover Alness
Young
Curators.
We want young people to help shape how the story of Alness is told. Young Curators will have the chance to explore local history, work with museum ideas and help create something new for the town.
This isn't just about learning history.
Young Curators will be encouraged to ask questions, investigate stories, work with photographs and objects, develop ideas and help decide how parts of Alness's history could be shared with other people.
Make something
Help create displays, digital stories, videos, labels, social content and other ways of sharing what you discover.
Choose what matters
Look at photographs, documents, objects and memories and think about what they tell us about Alness.
Bring your ideas
Have a say in how Discover Alness develops and what a museum for the town could look and feel like.
Your ideas should have somewhere to go.
Young Curators won't simply be given activities to complete. The aim is for the group to contribute ideas that can genuinely influence Discover Alness.
That could mean suggesting a subject for an exhibition, helping choose photographs, finding a new way to tell a story or spotting something adults have overlooked.
You don't need to already know lots about history. Curiosity, ideas and an interest in Alness are enough to get started.
Things Young Curators could work on
The programme will grow with Discover Alness. Activities will depend on the projects, collections and opportunities available at the time.
Local stories
Research an event, place, person or part of everyday life in Alness and help turn it into a story other people can explore.
Photographs & archives
Look closely at historical photographs and records, identify clues and help work out what they can tell us.
Mini exhibitions
Help choose a theme, select material and write the words that could become a small physical or digital exhibition.
Oral history
Learn how memories can be recorded and preserved and, with proper consent and supervision, help capture stories from local people.
Digital museum
Help shape stories, posts and features for the Discover Alness online archive.
The museum itself
Share ideas about exhibitions, activities and how a future physical museum in Alness could work for younger visitors.
Safe, supported and taken seriously.
Discover Alness is developing the Young Curators programme carefully. Appropriate safeguarding, consent, supervision and risk-management arrangements will be in place before activities involving young people begin.
Parents and carers will be given clear information about activities, communication, photography and any visits or events where their consent is required.
Discover Alness has a formal Young Curators Programme Policy and Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy governing this work.
GET INVOLVED
Interested in Young Curators?
If you're interested in taking part, or you're a parent or carer asking on behalf of a young person, send us a message. We're currently gathering interest while the programme is being developed.