On the 6th of June, I stepped into the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to begin a short-term summer placement, though not as a medical student, but as part of my Museum studies course. I began working several days a week with the Grampian Hospital Arts Trust (known as GHAT...
The Collections team has been busy in the last couple of months! We attended the Scottish Museums Federation’s Annual Conference at Hampden Park’s Scottish Football Museum. The theme was ‘Seeing the Bigger Picture’, and we heard a variety of speakers get into topics...
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust owns, manages and displays over 4000 artworks across NHS Grampian sites. If you’d like to change or remove artwork from your workplace, we may be able to help. Our works are clearly labelled. If you find artwork in storage that belongs to...
Work from the GHAT Art Collection. The GHAT Art Collection comprises of artworks either commissioned or purchased over the past 38 years. Artwork is on display across all 34 NHS Grampian sites. This service is intrinsic to our original focus and fundamental to our...
In June, our Collection team welcomed conservators Egan, Matthews & Rose into the stores to assess some of our artworks. In a hospital setting, artworks may go through different handling and hanging procedures than artworks in traditional museum and gallery...
In 2022 writer and performer Shane Strachan was commissioned by GHAT to create four new poetic works inspired and informed by artworks in the GHAT Art Collection, and the history and heritage of Aberdeen. ‘Queens Cinema’ was inspired by archival research on the...
