Thank you @murrayp.bsky.social for your support/input to the project and for representing. We’re seeing incredible participation worldwide, the Burns Supper is now submitted to the UK’s Inventory of Living Heritage, and we’re looking forward to sharing findings/ new resources this summer!
A pleasure to write this short article for @sahavoice.bsky.social about the ambitions of ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ project: saha.scot/the-burns-su....
Access our #BurnsSupper225 survey here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...!
@paulinemackay.bsky.social
2026 we are celebrating 225 years of the Burns Supper. Now @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social wants your help to contribute to our global map of Burns celebrations.
Send us your videos, photos and details of how you celebrate Burns Night: gla.ac/BurnsSupper225
#BurnsSupper225
Pleased to begin role of ambassador for Ellisland, 'The Home of Auld Lang Syne' from Hogmanay- interviews with BBC, ITV and Fox today. Read Joan McAlpine on the Ellisland appeal in www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
@glasgowburns.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social @asls.org.uk
Professor Pauline Mackay, Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies and Research Associate Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman photographed at the University of Glasgow. Prof MacKay is holding a book of Burns poetry and Dr Yeoman is holding a plate with haggis.
How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴
UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July.
Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf
In 2023 @uofglasgow.bsky.social was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize in recognition of the range & impact of the projects undertaken at the @glasgowburns.bsky.social, chiefly Editing & Curating Burns for the 21st Century
More about the project👇
@murrayp.bsky.social
@paulinemackay.bsky.social
COMING SOON! Sign up to be notified of the Museums in the Metaverse Beta!
#InnovationAccelerator #MuseumsInTheMetaverse #CulturalHeritage #XR
✍️Museums have long faced a fundamental challenge: globally less than 10% of museum collections are typically on public display. Through our Extended Reality (XR) platform, we are hoping to address this by creating digital twins of rare & precious objects that can be experienced in entirely new ways
the article was written by By Professor Neil McDonnell ( @neilmcdonnell.bsky.social and Dr Pauline Mackay ( @paulinemackay.bsky.social) @uofglasgow.bsky.social
@uofgnews.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social @murrayp.bsky.social
Splendid discussion today on role of Museums in the Metaverse in cultural tourism & placemaking in Future Cities Forum Cultural Cities 2025 with Michelle Charters OBE, Craig Hassall AM & many more @ahallardyce.bsky.social @fergusbruce.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social
Robert Burns declared this ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life; and, besides, is composed on a young lady, positively the most beautiful, lovely woman in the world’. Wonderful from the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir. #BurnsNight #RobertBurns #Scotland
Global study reveals 77% want digital access to museum collections.
The study on virtual museums reveals “not just what future audiences want but how museums can adapt to meet these demands”, says report co-author UofG's @murrayp.bsky.social.
Report: gla.ac/4h1XQLe
Happy Hogmanay from the team at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies! 🎆 Wherever you are we are sure you will be singing Auld Lang Syne along with us tonight. Visit our blog to read about the origins of the iconic Scottish anthem:
www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...
#hogmanay
#auldlangsyne
Curious about what research happens in the ARC? We set ourselves a challenge...can we explain what we have achieved so far, in 60 seconds or less?
The Museums in the Metaverse team are delighted to launch this Kelvin 200 VR experience! Working with The Hunterian, Edify & Lateral North. Come and try it in the University of Glasgow’s ARC-XR, Wed 18th, 10am-4pm; Thurs 19th, 10am-1pm! 👀
Join @glasgowburns.bsky.social for the Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference on Saturday 18th January 2025 @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC! In collaboration with the NTS Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. Info and booking below! 👀 👇
The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Robert Burns Studies is on BlueSky! Follow for research and events about Robert Burns (1759-96). 👀 in the run up to Burns Season 2025! Beginning with insights into our annual conference planned for 18th January! #RobertBurns
Man stands holding a gold-framed portrait of a young man in a large and ornate Castle.
A man sits at a desk reading an 18th century book and close by is a gold framed portrait of a young man and a wooden timer.
A newly found 18th-century portrait at Scotland's Barnbougle Castle could be a rare lifetime likeness of poet Robert Fergusson, says UofG's Prof Professor Gerard Carruthers.
It will be unveiled tomorrow at Irvine Burns Club.
Read more: gla.ac/3ZopxrE
Photo:Martin Shields
Sounds like a great day to me! ☕️ 📚
‘Poets are such outré Beings, so much the children of wayward Fancy and capricious Whim, that I believe the world generally allows them a larger latitude in the rules of Propriety, than the sober Sons of Judgement and Prudence.—‘ Robert Burns to Wilhelmina Alexander, November 1786.
