Acme Museum Services aka Hamish Mac
@acmemuseum.bsky.social
Usually a museum consultant helping community groups develop Lottery Heritage funded projects. When not doing that: creating cartoons, bashing at badminton, washing watercolours, wrangling over writing, and sometimes drilling into bungaroosh.
Part 1 #Heritage Open Days: @ amazing #Portslade. I experiment with my Dora Stafford #planthunter talk with props: a plant press and period tinplate vasculum
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Part 1 #Heritage Open Days: @ amazing #Portslade. I experiment with my Dora Stafford #planthunter talk with props: a plant press and period tinplate vasculum
The hills are alive with the sound of humming alpacas! In my research about the forgotten plant hunter Dora Stafford of Peru, I end up in a muddy Sussex field with these animals.
February 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The hills are alive with the sound of humming alpacas! In my research about the forgotten plant hunter Dora Stafford of Peru, I end up in a muddy Sussex field with these animals.
3 years deep research and I have enough material to do a talk about the forgotten planthunter Miss Dora Stafford. Who she? She organised syndicates to fund her searches in 1930s for rare plants and seeds. She is never mentioned in plant hunter books. To be continued…
January 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
3 years deep research and I have enough material to do a talk about the forgotten planthunter Miss Dora Stafford. Who she? She organised syndicates to fund her searches in 1930s for rare plants and seeds. She is never mentioned in plant hunter books. To be continued…
Congrats #Cranleigh Heritage Trust with funding from Lottery Heritage to create well-being hub in home of Cottage Hospital movement. I spent last summer doing interpretation experiments for this #volunteer Trust. Most popular: jigsaws.
January 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Congrats #Cranleigh Heritage Trust with funding from Lottery Heritage to create well-being hub in home of Cottage Hospital movement. I spent last summer doing interpretation experiments for this #volunteer Trust. Most popular: jigsaws.
Wishing everybody a Tickety Boo Hogmanay!
December 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Wishing everybody a Tickety Boo Hogmanay!