Museum and Heritage Highland
Museums and Heritage Highland exists to ensure that Highland heritage thrives, for the benefit of everyone living in and visiting the Highlands.
We work with museums and heritage organisations located across this large, beautiful, disparate area - from Fort Willian to Wick and Nairn to Skye - to generate exciting and innovative projects that help them raise standards, engage with more people and be sustainable and resilient. Our museums have the stories, the objects and the people that bring the Highlands to life for all who visit and live there. They are an essential component in small, rural communities helping them to prosper, economically and socially. We want to ensure they can keep telling these stories in new and interesting ways for current and future generations.
Speakers
Nicola Henderson
XpoNorth Heritage Sector Specialist
Nicola Henderson is a freelance arts and heritage professional. She has worked within Scotland's Cultural Sector for almost 20 years - from Glasgow to Aberdeenshire via Skye and Sutherland. Nicola has worked as director of two of Scotland's leading cultural organisations - Timespan in Helmsdale and The Barn in Banchory. Following the birth of her first child, Nicola has worked freelance on a number of creative projects - from devising and delivering Associate Artist Programmes to managing New Music Scotland and working with the Highland heritage sector on building resilience.
Nicola currently works as the Heritage Specialist for XpoNorth and as the Innovation and Network manager for Museums and Heritage Highland - two roles that overlap in supporting museums to innovate for a sustainable future. She also co-runs the Museums Immersive Network with Cornwall Museums Partnership.
