Museum blog

For February’s item of the month I have chosen JOD/133 a logbook written by T.F. Miller, the gunner on the whaling ship ‘Erik’ which records a voyage undertaken in 1876 from Dundee to the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland.

Explore the works and legacy of Richard Hakluyt, an Elizabethan compiler and editor of travel writing, at the Caird Library and Archive.

World War I might have ended for some in 1919, but for others fighting continued, whether they liked it or not.

Discover the history and stories behind the Royal Observatory's weathervanes

Were the lighthouse keepers on Flannan Island swept away? Or did something darker take place that night?

When tucking into your Christmas lunch this year, spare a thought for how polar explorers of the heroic age celebrated Christmas.

The spine labels of The King’s Ships, by H. S. Lecky show that ships from ABOUKIR to JUPITER are included in these volumes, the title page states that this is a six-volume work, and the introduction explains that they contain a ‘history of all those ships which are in the Naval service of the Empire’. So where are the last three volumes?