Cromarty Courthouse Museum is delighted to be one of six Highland museums that are preparing to put their collections on the world stage after being chosen to participate in a unique collaboration between XpoNorth Digital, Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s specialist digital support programme for the creative and heritage sectors, and Smartify, the world’s most downloaded museum app.

Offering a digitised version of each museum’s exhibitions, along with a curated video recounting their stories, a multi-media tour and even an e-shop, the Smartify app will allow smartphone users around the globe to engage with archives, artifacts, and memories from across Scotland’s north.

The app’s innovative nature will help to bring the storied history of the Highlands and Islands into the light for a wider audience, allowing museums to improve accessibility and further optimise the possibilities offered in the digital era.

The six museums participating in the initiative are Inverness Museum and Art Gallery; Gairloch Museum; Highlanders’ Museum; Cromarty Courthouse Museum; Clyne Heritage Society (Brora Heritage Centre), and Stromness Museum, Orkney.

A presence on Smartify will help to make the Courthouse more accessible, extend our audience, enhance local skills and knowledge and help us become more financially sustainable. It will enable us to share our wonderful heritage globally.