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Museum of Scottish LighthousesKinnaird Head
Fraserburgh
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• Opened in 1995
• Two sites: historic castle and museum
• Three elements, people, objects and buildings
•People- Light keepers, Stevenson family
•Building- castle converted in 1824, modified in 1902•Objects-archives, library, technical collection, social history
collection.
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Origins:
First Lighthouse on mainland Scotland built by the Northern
Lighthouse Board/Trust
NLB collection
Stevenson collection
Archive
Photographs including
Keith Allardyce collection
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Kinnaird Head Castle
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Stevenson’s Tower
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Seventy Two Step Staircase
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Thomas Smith
First engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Trust
Tinsmith and lamp maker
Designed the multi faceted reflector
Step-father of Robert Stevenson
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Robert Stevenson
Self taught engineer, became
engineer to NLB .
1800 becomes Partner to Thomas
Smith.
Greatest work the Bell Rock
Lighthouse off Arbroath. Assistant
Engineer under John Rennie.
From 1811 begins own
engineering practice.
Grandfather of Robert Louis
Stevenson.
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Bell Rock Lighthouse
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General operation
Open all year round- seven days a week. October-March
limited hours.
27,000 2006
Franchise café
Web visitors.
Other activities: corporate entertainment, weddings, music
events.
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Funding
•Independent Museum
•Funded by grant
•Aberdeenshire Council-Core Funding
•Admissions
•Shop
•External Sponsors
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External factors
•Government policy tending towards charitable status for
museums. Only some money available for significance
scheme.
•Partnership with Historic Scotland, they pay for the buildingmaintenance.
•New projects have to be related to other organisations
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Maintaining the buildings
• Maintained by HistoricScotland
• Cost approximately
£400000 per year
• Conservation issues
high priority
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Visitor Trends
• Foreign visitors over the period came from the following countries: United States, Australia, New
Zealand, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, India and Slovenia.
• It is clear that visitors from foreign countries visit the museum in large numbers, being almost half of
those paying to visit the museum.
• Nevertheless over fifty percent were from Scotland and a high proportion were from Aberdeenshire and
the local area but few were from Fraserburgh.
• From the surveys it was also important to note that Aberdeen and Inverness were important transit
areas from which foreign and Scottish tourists a. found out about their destination or b. were advised to visit
by the TIC or Hotel they were using.
• In both cases the visitors were coming to see the museum and not the town, therefore this demonstratesthat the museum plays an important role in attracting visitors to the area. In conjunction with the statements
made in the SMC’s report this would seem to confirm their findings.
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Travel Guides
Tourist
Information
Centre
Leaflet
Website
Media
Word of mouth
Leaflet
Website
Method by
which they
heard of themuseum
78%73%Percentage of
people who
came
specifically to
visit the
museum
115125 Numbers of
Surveys
Outside
Scotland
ScotlandRegion
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Sponsors
Chevron oil – Wreckers Exhibition
Heritage Lottery Fund – Seascapes audio visual and
display gallery
Building Banff and Buchan – Internet development
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Accreditation
Application made in 2005
Initial discussions April July 2006
Scottish Museums Council visit October 5 2006Demonstration of sound collection systems
Accountability for collections
Acceptable level of physical and intellectual access for
the public.
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Seascapes
Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund
New audio visual experience.Film including oral interviews associated with the local ship owners and
fishermen exploring issues of danger and safety.
Encompassed conservation students, Aberdeenshire Oral History. Association, Film students and Chard House Media.
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Star objects
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Lighthouse
Charter 1685
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Isle of May sketchbook c.1881
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Argand lamp converted by Alan Stevenson c.1840
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Brass box owned by Thomas Smith dated 1790
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Photograph Album donated by Quentin Stevenson
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New developments
Demolition of seafront properties
Demolition of Victoria Hotel
Construction of affordable housing opposite museum
Possible new store building available
Creation of new lighthouse next to the old one.