IT MAY appear to be a mammoth task – to relate a history of the world.
Yet an exciting and innovative new multi-media BBC and British Museum partnership, aims to do just that: with the help of communities and local museums the length and breadth of Britain, including Museum nan Eilean.
Màiri Robertson, Museum Curator, expands: "Museum nan Eilean is pleased to be involved in the most ambitious nationwide museum partnership ever created.
"We are one of 350 museums around the UK helping to tell the history of the world from a local perspective through objects."
The artefact selected to represent the Western Isles in the unique 'A History of the World' partnership is the Bell and Engine Plate from the H.M Yacht Iolaire, which will feature on the project's website –
www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld - a central cog in the national initiative.
Mairi continued: "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."
For more on this unique project see this week's Stornoway Gazette, out on Thursday January 28.
