This Happens in War Touring Exhibition

By emma

November 10, 2009

The Museum of The Black Watch is proud to present This Happens in War, a touring exhibition that will tour Angus, Dundee, Fife and Perthshire from November 2009. The exhibition is the culmination of a partnership project, led by the Museum of The Black Watch. For more information on the This Happens in War project, see elsewhere on this site.

This Happens in War is part of the National initiative called Their Past Your Future, supported by Museums Galleries Scotland, Imperial War Museum and the Big Lottery Fund.

The exhibition will be launched at Harris Academy, Dundee on 10th November 2009, and at Pitlochry High School on 12th November 2009. Both events will give local schools an opportunity to view the exhibition, meet veterans and learn about the Second World War and conflicts since.

Listen to the BBC Radio Scotland interview from Harris Academy.

The exhibition will consist of eight panels on the following topics:

• The War at Home
• Conscription & National Service
• The Wrens
• North Africa
• France
• Germany
• Korea
• Kenya

Each of the veterans who have contributed to the oral histories will feature.

The exhibition will tour Angus, Dundee, Fife and Perth & Kinross at the various project partners and in other museums, galleries and alternative locations. The exhibition will be on show at the following locations:

• 13th November 2009 to February 2010 at the Museum of The Black Watch, Perth
• February 2010 at the St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum, St Andrews, Fife
• March 2010 at the Museum of The Black Watch, Perth
• April 2010 to October 2010 at the Atholl Country Life Museum, Blair Atholl, Perthshire
• Further exhibition dates to be confirmed

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