Every year new objects enter Aberdeen’s Archives, Gallery & Museums collection. Through a combination of gifts, bequests, donations and purchases we continue to breathe new life and meaning into the collection, guided by our Collection Development Policy. The Spotlight display is updated throughout the year to showcase new acquisitions entering the city’s collection.

This small display features our latest acquisitions, including a new work by Bruce Swanson as part of our Micro-commissions programme. Swanson’s pendant, Traders, reimagines Bronze Age trade along Scotland’s coast. Jet from North Yorkshire and amber from the Baltic are set in silver and wood, celebrating the reality that international journeys took place thousands of years ago, connecting Scotland and Scandinavia long before modern borders.