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= Aberdeen Treasure Hub Museum = This state-of-the-art storage and research facility, completed in 2016, is where Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums’ incredible collections of art and history is cared for when they are not on public display. These include paintings, sculpture, archaeology, science and industry, maritime history, costume and decorative art. They welcome visitors, schools and special interest groups for behind-the-scenes tours and research visits, with their dedicated staff and volunteers on hand to answer questions.

Aberdeen Treasure Hub houses our fascinating and nationally recognised collection. Objects range from cameras to wedding dresses, medical equipment to toys, jewellery to carpentry tools, beer mats to oil paintings. Whilst some of these items will be in boxes, many are visible on shelves and in display cases. We'll be unpacking 1000s more items in the Treasure Hub over the next few years, so there will be something different to see each time you visit.

The facility was named by the Northfield community. Aberdeen Treasure Hub is designed to be a collections store facility, which includes a public exhibition and activity space. It will be a focal point for increasing opportunities for people to engage with arts and culture, and a venue in its own right for the community, city and wider region.

The Aberdeen Treasure Hub is a combination of a purpose-built, high tech store, an accessible visitor attraction and a giant car boot sale! Sadly, you can’t take the objects home, but the joy is that you never know just what a visit may turn up, from a priceless masterpiece, to a floppy disc, a giant sign from the Brent Delta or the most exquisite, yet horrific, tiny embroidered Chinese shoes from the days of foot binding. The whole world is here and waiting to be explored. Given that the city’s museums and art gallery hold roughly half a million items and can only show 1-5% of them at any given time, it has to be stored somewhere. Previously it languished, swathed in tissue paper, in the dusty basements and forgotten corners of the Art Gallery or in dank museum stores.

Opening Day
The Treasure Hub was opened at a family fun day launch, that included puppet making, games, seeing and handling birds of prey, face painting, meeting a Police Scotland dog and even handling some of the objects that form part of the Treasure Hub collection. These events related to the opening exhibition entitled Creature Creations, a showcase of animal themed objects and artworks from the city's collections, as well as taking part in the day’s activities Councillor Laing and Councillor Angela Taylor, Education and Children’s Services Committee Convener, were given a tour of the Treasure Hub which will eventually be home to some 200,000 objects including paintings and historic artefacts.