Iona Tytler
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Museum Assistant & Engagement @Castle_Museum 🏰 MSc Museum Studies and MSc Gender History Grad @UofGInfoStudies @UofGGenderHist 🌈 (they/them)
Joined August 2018
A very unusual but immensely enjoyable day at work on Saturday- it was lovely to welcome visitors to our Night At The Museum! I also wrote and performed a torchlit tour of the Castle Gardens as the resident ghostly chimney sweep, Clyde. Thank you to everyone that came along 👻
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RT @KelvingroveArt: It’s Black History Month. Nelson Cummins, Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire, looks at the ‘Launch of the Christ…
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Fantastic to welcome @glasgow_sugar back to CHM, and to hear more about his research into Ewing and the Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy. Built for Ewing in 1824, our building is just one of the physical reminders in rural Scotland of the wealth generated from Caribbean slavery.
It was wonderful to welcome back Dr Mullen (@glasgow_sugar) this evening, who gave his talk titled ‘James Ewing of Strathleven: Caribbean Slavery and the making of Castle House.’ Dr Mullen is an engaging speaker and his research was greatly enjoyed by all. Thank you! 🌟
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RT @castle_museum: We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Stephen Mullen back to Castle House tomorrow evening! Come along to Castle House…
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Looking forward to running a family-friendly version of the Dunoon Suffrage Trail this Saturday! This free event is part of Cowalfest, one of Scotland’s biggest walking festivals. There will be activities for the wee ones throughout. More information here:
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Had a great time delivering a guided tour of the Castle Gardens yesterday! I really enjoyed composing the tour, with parts based off some of the work of late local archaeologist Elizabeth Rennie. I also loved digging through the newspaper archive for more tales to share. 🏰✨
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Had a lovely day today collecting stories for our upcoming tapestry project, which will mark the 200th anniversary of our building! 🏰 Looking forward to the tapestry workshops next month with @kmacostume. More information here:
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It was great to attend the @MuseumofBrands Reminiscence Training last week! This was an insightful session that covered how to run creative reminiscence sessions effectively with people living with dementia. I can’t wait to get started with sessions in the local community.
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@castle_museum reopened at the start of April and it’s been fantastic to welcome visitors again from both near and far. We’ve had some great reviews in the visitor book so far this season, it’s lovely to see that they have enjoyed their visit as much as we did! 🌟
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RT @BrooklynBraeger: Excited to share my first 'published' piece as a digital collections assistant! The aim is to write about history in…
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It was great to welcome visitors again at the start of this month, and to see them enjoying the activities. I created a Victorian Easter Trail around Castle Gardens, and received positive in-person feedback that it was both fun and educational. 🐣 ✨
lt was lovely to see visitors enjoying our seasonal activities at the start of the month. Many took part by following our Victorian Easter trail around Castle Gardens, and making bunny garlands and 3D hanging eggs at the craft table. The Easter Bunny himself even popped in. 🐰
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It’s been such a lovely day welcoming visitors once again. ☺️
We are open! 🎉 From today we will be open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm. Why not pay us a visit? We’d be delighted to welcome you ☺️
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As part of my role at Castle House Museum, I researched and composed a blog post for #WomensHistoryMonth. I really enjoyed learning more about some of the trailblazing women who called Dunoon home around one hundred years ago. 🏡 [
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RT @womenslibrary: This #IWD please consider making a donation to the UK's only Accredited Museum dedicated to women’s lives, histories & a…
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It was a joy and a privilege to be a Student Co-Creator for one of the core courses on this Masters, so glad to hear it’s going to be a permanent offering! Congratulations 🎉
A pioneering history Masters’ programme from @UofGArtsHums is being offered online to allow more students across world access to @UofGGenderHist - the largest concentration of gender historians in Britain. Read more 👇 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024
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What a fab day sharing Dunoon’s connections to the suffragettes for #InternationalWomensDay! I led the Suffrage Trail, and then greatly enjoyed Hannah’s talk. One attendee said: ‘Great tour leader and speaker. I never knew this town had been so full of radical women!’ 🌟
(1/3) Thank you to everyone who celebrated #InternationalWomensDay with us yesterday. 🌟 First was the Dunoon Suffrage Trail, led by Museum Assistant Iona. We also welcomed PhD researcher Hannah Speed who shared her great work on ‘The Scottish Suffragettes in their Own Words.’
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RT @UofGGenderHist: kickstart the afternoon by following 'The Suffrage Trail: Dunoon and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage walk' with UofG gra…
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