Our Vision 2025 – To Make Archaeology Matter
We want to live in a Scotland where archaeology is for everyone! A place where the study of the past offers opportunities for us now and in the future to discover, care for, promote and enjoy our rich and diverse heritage, contributing to our wellbeing and knowledge and helping to tell Scotland’s stories in their global context.
Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy has been developed by the Scottish Strategic Archaeology Committee, following a consultation in 2015.
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Strategy Blog: June 2025
The journey so far for Ailsa Smith. Ailsa serves on the Scottish Strategy Archaeology Committee representing community and volunteer archaeology.
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Before the Museum Project – Consultations on Draft Guidance and Museums Processing Fee
As part of the ‘Before the Museum’ project led by the Association of Local Government Archaeologists, Scotland (ALGAO) Scotland, National Museums Scotland, and the Museum Working Group of Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy, we are now inviting feedback on two reports related…
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Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2020 Launch!
We are proud to present ‘Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2020’, the third issue of our report on the delivery of Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy. Despite the trials of the year, this issue is bigger than ever, with more exciting projects being featured…
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Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2020
Scotland’s Strategic Archaeology Committee are currently pulling material together for Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2020. Following on from our issues in 2018 and 2019 it seeks to showcase the value Archaeology brings to Scotland and report on our progress delivering…
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Open Access Funding
Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy envisages a Scotland where archaeology is for everyone, and encourages us to increase our profile and widen access within and beyond the sector. The Archaeology Strategy Delivery Plan, launched in autumn 2016, explicitly states our commitment to…
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Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2019
We are proud to present ‘Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2019’, the second issue of our report on the delivery of Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy. This magazine is also a place to find out about some of the most exciting projects that have…
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Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland, 2018
Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy is proud to launch ‘Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland 2018’, a magazine-style report on the delivery of Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy which is also a place to celebrate some of the great recent work which has been happening in Archaeology across…