Crichton Royal Museum

|Material relating to Crichton Royal Museum, comprising, a Visitor's Book, 1989-1992 and one folder of Material Relating to Hospital Items of Historical Interest, 1964-1984.

1964-1992

1 box

Crichton Royal Museum was set up in 1989 to coincide with the hospital's 150th anniversary celebrations. Although the Museum was called the Crichton Royal Museum and was located in Easterbrook Hall, it covered all aspects of health care in the region with material relating to all local hospitals. It was officially opened in April 1989 by Prince Charles, and the following year was awarded the title of Museum of the Year. When the majority of the Crichton Estate was purchased by Dumfries and Galloway Council in 1996, Easterbrook Hall came under the management of the Crichton Development Company, who, as part of the redevelopment of Easterbrook Hall, required the space occupied by the Museum. This led to the Museum's closure in 2004 and the relocation of its contents and the Health Board Archive to another building on the Crichton Estate, Solway House. There were initially plans to apply for funding to reopen the Museum; however these did not come to fruition and between 2004 and 2008 much of the Museum collections were sold or dispersed to other local museums, with some items remaining on the Crichton site.

Enquiries for reproduction for commercial purposes should be directed to the Archivist, Dumfries and Galloway Archives and Local Studies

The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.