Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Mintlaw HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes OpeningTime1 10:00am - 4:00pm OpeningDate1 20/9/2014 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 13110 Refreshments No Street The street address Station Road Postcode AB42 5EE Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Aberdeenshire Council Museums Service Discovery Centre Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived aberdeenshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 169 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,57.52507,-2.007799; Description An account of the resource Aberdeenshire Museums Service HQ (AMS) is the first publicly accessible store for the county?s museum service, and was built with a substantial grant from Heritage Lottery Fund. It is a purpose-built museum storage facility and visitor centre, as well as housing the service?s technical workshops. This state of the art facility includes 810 square metres of environmentally controlled storage space, housing collections ranging from fine art to botanical specimens.The store will be open to visitors for guided tours and an introduction behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum, with the photographic suite, conservation unit, education resources, stores and lots lots more. The guide will have lots of stories to tell about objects, and will let you see just how much goes into caring for collections and making them accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds.To book a place please call 01771 622807 between 9am & 4:30pm weekdays