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A programme of talks and events to accompany the Special Collections Centre's exhibition, 'An Audience with Charles Dickens'.

Join us for an evening filled with Ice, Fire and Scientific Enquiry.

Part of the museum's evening lectures series, in association with Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Suitable for families with children aged 3-10 years but all welcome.

From March 2016, the Gallery in the Sir Duncan Rice Library is presenting a real first for the 51cg - 15 firsts in fact! The Special Collections Centre has a unique collection of all 15 first editions of the novels of Charles Dickens - many of them collected...

Join Fiona Musk to find out more about the historic records of NHS Grampian from the founding of Aberdeen Infirmary in 1739 through to the development of health care provision across the North East of Scotland.

An exhibition by Westpark Primary School exploring the life and experiences of a Peterhead whaler.

Nineteenth century architectural thinkers took for granted that there was a relation between the materials of which buildings were built and the locality in which they stood. In the twentieth century, that relationship was dissolved by the development of supposedly 'universal' materials - steel, concrete, plasterboard - but no new...

Join us for a fun-filled evening of crafts and storytelling for all ages as part of Winter Night at the Museums.

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Roger Taylor, the internationally renowned historian of mid-19th century British photography, joins independent documentary and fine art photographer John Perivolaris in an informal discussion about George Washington Wilson and contemporary photographic views of the city.