Treasures of the Viking Age: Curator's Floortalks
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Be among the first to explore the exhibition Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard and hear the fascinating story behind these extraordinary finds from a visiting curator from National Museums Scotland.
Dr Martin Goldberg has spent close to a decade researching the amazing treasures discovered in Galloway in 2014. His background includes having co-authored (with Mary Davis) the book on this exhibition Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard. The stories evoked by these Viking-age objects have taken Martin on a journey through time and space to explore the hybrid cultural influences that have shaped modern-day Scotland. Modern viewers will gain insight into the trade and treasure that defined medieval Galloway, from Vikings to Anglo-Saxons and beyond.
Join Martin in-gallery for a floortalk tour where he will share mysteries and insights that have emerged through careful research on the exquisite treasures found in the Galloway Hoard.
About your speaker
Dr Martin Goldberg is the Principal Curator of Medieval Archaeology & History at National Museums Scotland. He has written books and curated exhibitions on Vikings, Picts, Celts (art and identity, in partnership with the British Museum), Recreating lost organic artefacts, Scotland’s Early Silver and Treasures of the Viking Age: the Galloway Hoard.
Martin has been closely involved with the Galloway Hoard since its discovery and particularly since its acquisition by National Museums Scotland in 2017. He led a three-year research project, Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard, which was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Martin did his PhD at the University of Glasgow on the Roman period evidence for ‘Celtic Religion’. He has always been interested in religions and periods of change and now specialises in the early Medieval period when Christianity was introduced to Scotland. For much of the last decade he has been working on various aspects of hoarding, from Late Roman silver through to the Viking Age.'
