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The Hope MacDougall COLLECTION

The story of a collector on tour in the Highlands and Islands

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Please explore the Collection website by clicking on the links below and any underlined links in the text
kettles and ironmonery from the archived MacDougall Collection

Dunollie and The MacDougalls

  • Brief history of the Estate
  • Introduction to The MacDougall Family
  • Miss Hope MacDougall

    The Hope MacDougall Collection

  • The start of the collection
  • Stories from her time collecting
  • The geographical extent of the collection
  • What is in the collection?

    The MacDougall Trust

  • What is The MacDougall Trust?
  • What has the Trust been doing?
  • Trustees - past and present

    Work in Progress

  • 1999     2000     2001     2002
  • 2003     2004      2005     2006
  • 2007
  • 2007 SUMMER EXHIBITION

    • Ambitions and Aspirations

  • The future aims of the Trust

    Funding the Collection

  • Funding and Fundraising efforts to date
  • Become a Friend of The Hope MacDougall Collection
  • Sponsor an object with the Friends
  • Merchandise from the Friends
  • Donations

    • The Gallery

  • Visit the Gallery

    Volunteer Opportunities

  • Help The Trust

    Contact the Trust

  • Contact The Trust

    Links to related sites

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    • What happened in 2005 ?

    Thanks to Whelk Funding - funding agreed August 2005
    The Hope MacDougall Collection Highland Tour

    This is a transregional project with the Western Isles Skye and Lochash Leader+, Northern Isles Leader + and North Highland Leader+. The aim of the project is to tour a professionally designed museum exhibition to ten venues across the Highlands and Island in 2006 and 2007.
    The exhibition will focus on artefacts, photographs, and archive material related to the ordinary working and domestic lives of people from Shetland to Arran giving an insight into shared heritage and individual communities through the eclectic mind of the collector, Miss Hope MacDougall.
    The design and development of the exhibition and marketing material will take place entirely at The Hope MacDougall Collection’s base in Argyll. The application to WHELK Leader + is for assistance towards the costs of employing a professional museum designer to develop the exhibition.
    The costs relating to the touring element of the project will be covered by the other Leader+ LAGS .
    Project Funding
    WHELK LEADER+ 1,370
    other LEADER+ 14,638
    Public match-funding 7,425
    Private match-funding 15,062
    total project cost 38,495

    weaving and looms    pipes and smoking    bathing    implements