A BBC and British museum partnership

Museum nan Eilean is pleased to be involved in the most ambitious nationwide museum partnership ever created.

Màiri Robertson, Museum Curator said:” We are one of 350 museums around the UK helping to tell the history of the world from a local perspective through objects.

The Bell and Engine Plate from the H.M. Yacht Iolaire, captures one of the most tragic moments in the history of the Western Isles, and will feature on the ‘A History of the World’ website which is the hub of the project.

The Iolaire Disaster, as it has become known, remains one of the worst peace-time catastrophes in British maritime history, yet the tragedy is perhaps not that well known beyond the Western Isles.

We welcome the opportunity A History of the World provides to encourage peoples’ discovery of the power of objects to tell stories and mark moments in our history.

You can see the Bell and Engine Plate from the H.M.Yacht Iolaire on the website and find out more, or visit the museum to see the object as well as discover our collections.

Join in building a digital museum by adding your object to the A History of the World website. If you need assistance, please bring your object in to the Museum nan Eilean in Stornoway or Lionacleit and museum staff will be happy to photograph it and add it to the A History of the World website.

We hope independent museums, historical societies and schools in the Western Isles will get involved in A History of the World by contributing their own objects to the website to help tell the history of the world through their eyes”. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld

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