Edinburgh Napier University

  Prison museums are part of Scotland’s cultural heritage tourism portfolio, and they are, by consequence, iconic public history venues that interpret historical and contemporary narratives of crime, punishment and incarceration. This interdisciplinary project examines the challenges and potential in making Peterhead Prison Museum’s curatorial approach to a complex and challenging social history ethically responsible and engaging. Placing Peterhead in a wider context of prison museums internationally, the case study will use chiefly qualitative, and discourse analytical methods, with the aim of showing how Peterhead can evolve its interpretive and community outreach strategies to meet the needs of visitors and community stakeholders.