HASLEMERE Museum has been hosting two members of staff from Tobago Museum in the West Indies on an international professional development placement.

Curator’s Assistant, Helen Edwards-Noel, and Museum Assistant, Aisha Guy, have been consulting on an information gathering exercise and have been exposed to a wide range of transferable skills.

The Tobago Museum is located at the late 18th-century Fort King George named after King George III - on the outskirts of Scarborough, Tobago.

The museum displays include exhibitions of pre-Columbian items including Amerindian relics, ancient pottery, military artefacts, colonial history and slavery, as well as displays relating to collections of antique maps, documents and coins.

The forerunner of the Tobago Museum was founded by a gentleman called Patrick Lake Boyle Coghlan (1907-1993), of Fernhurst near Haslemere.

As a result of this, the two museums have been in contact, which has led to this closer alliance and professional attachment.

Chairman of Haslemere Museum, Melanie Odell MBE aid: “It was a great pleasure to meet Helen, Aisha, and we were delighted to share the activities and processes of the Museum with our guests from Tobago.”