Dusting for prints… TAGS: | | | | | We all like to pretend that no-one touches the things in museums. Fact is, like it or not, people do. We have been working with ECA Postgraduate student Morgan Kinne …Continue reading →

Exhibition Archive: The Model (22/11/13 – 9/12/13) Edinburgh College of Art TAGS: | | | The Model, curated by Gordon Brennan (Head of Painting) and Neil Lebeter (Art Collections Curator), brought together models from across University Collections; ranging from Geology, Veterinary Science Anatomy, Music and …Continue reading →

Christmas is nearly here! TAGS: | | | | | | In celebration of the next week’s big event, we thought we’d bring you a sample of some of the festive bits and pieces in our archive collections. As always, the …Continue reading →

Merry Fishmas to you all! TAGS: | | | As it’s only a week to go until Christmas, enjoy a festive edition of The Wee Red Herring from the ECA archive, complete with zombies and everything. December 2009 issue …Continue reading →

Art Collections at the Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Party TAGS: | | Zane by Isobel Turley The annual Sculpture Party is part of ECA legend. Organised by the Sculpture department, it raises money for the School of Art Degree shows and takes …Continue reading →

BAG: The Student Magazine TAGS: | | | | | | Exciting morning so far! We’ve been sorting through prints and posters for the ECA collections and found something interesting… Earlier in the year we posted a story in the archives …Continue reading →

The Power of Google… TAGS: | | | | We’ve been using Google Inside Search to help us identify some prints in the collection. All you have to do is upload a photo and magically it can find it …Continue reading →

The Model at ECA TAGS: | | | It’s all go at Edinburgh College of Art at the moment for the opening of The Model exhibition, featuring items from Geology, Anatomy, and Dick Vet, alongside work by ECA …Continue reading →

‘The Art Student’ Cartoons for Movember! TAGS: | | | | | Today our volunteer Neasa found some interesting cartoons that include some unusual depictions of moustaches in the ECA ‘The Art Student’ magazines from 1950, 1951 and 1952. We hope you …Continue reading →

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Rediscovering the Poetry of Louisa Agnes Czarnecki, a 19th-Century Edinburgh Writer and Musician Today we are publishing a blog by Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement...
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Default utility Image Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...
Default utility Image The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training...

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