Teacher Preview Evening: Treasures of the Viking Age – The Galloway Hoard

This exhibition provides an ideal case study for Stage 4 History depth studies on ‘Investigating the Ancient Past’ and ‘The Vikings’ and is sure to interest students and archaeology enthusiasts of all ages.

As well as a preview of the exhibition, Dr Adrián Maldonado, the Project Curator from National Museums Scotland, will be giving a short talk explaining the maritime context of Galloway and the significance of the Hoard. Browse the exhibition and join the ANMM’s Learning Team for some light refreshments and networking with fellow educators.

For more information about ANMM’s related school excursion programming visit Treasures of the Viking Age – The Galloway Hoard Excursion | Australian National Maritime Museum.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions and we hope to see you there!

About Dr Adrián Maldonado

Project Curator, Scottish Archaeological Human Remains Collection

National Museums Scotland

Adrián joined NMS in 2018 as Glenmorangie Research Fellow for the fourth phase of the Glenmorangie Research Project. This included a three-year reassessment of the collections relating to the ninth to the twelfth centuries AD, including the Viking Age, the decline of the Pictish kingdoms, the emergence of the Gaelic-speaking kingdom of Alba and the kingdom of Scotland. The project culminated in the book Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom (2021). From 2021-2024, he was Galloway Hoard Researcher on the Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard project at NMS.

Before joining NMS, Adrián was a lecturer in archaeology at the Universities of Glasgow and Chester. He received his PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2011 with a thesis entitled . He has published widely on early medieval burial practices and landscapes of early Christianity.

Since 2012, he has been involved in various projects around the archaeology of the monasteries of Iona and Whithorn, reassessing legacy excavations using archival material and museum collections.

He is an avid promoter and advocate for archaeology, contributing to various regional and thematic panels of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework and appearing on numerous TV, radio and podcast programmes. You can catch up on many of these by exploring the links on the NMS Repository.

His personal blog, Almost Archaeology, explores the intersections of archaeology and popular culture, work he is continuing to do on social media, online videos and more.

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