After extensive restoration of the magnificent 17^th century building, the Abingdon County Hall Museum has reopened with three floors of new exhibitions. Originally built to house law courts, since 1919 the County Hall has held a variety of local collections of geology, archaeology and history. The main gallery now tells the story of Abingdon-on-Thames, the longest continually inhabited settlement in England, and features the last MGB roadster car made in the town. Upstairs in the attic there are town treasures and objects linked to local people and places.

Browse their eHive account to see the top 100 objects from the Museum’s collection.

Go to Abingdon County Hall Museum »

The remote central Queensland location of the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre has proved no barrier to visitors.  Since its opening in 1988 it has drawn a huge number of national and international visitors to experience the centre and see its architecturally iconic buildings.  The collections tell the story of the explorers, indigenous people, pastoralists and stock workers of the extraordinary landscape of interior Australia.

The collections include a large archival collection and fantastic photographic collection.  Browse their collections and see the eclectic mix of objects being catalogued and published to the web.

Go to the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame »

We’ve been working hard on our programming interfaces to eHive. The first part of this has now been released with the addition of support for data harvesting in the latest upgrade. [Read more…]

Would you like to attend the eHive workshop in New Lanark?

Date: May 23 2012

Place: New Lanark, Scotland

Time: 10am – 3.30pm

Cost: free

Please bring a WIFI enabled laptop to participate in the ‘hands on’ section of the afternoon.

Contact anne@vernonsystems.com for bookings. Seats are limited!

(article image: Pedro Plassen Lopes)