Tomas Domhnallach © 2006
Sculpture
by
Malcolm Robertson
Outside the front of the museum is a sculpture commissioned from Malcolm Robertson to celebrate its reopening in 1998.
The main body of the sculpture is cut from steel sheet and it is embedded in a base of locally quarried Uist stone.
Cut into the sheet are two verses from a Gaelic emigrant song
"In Praise of Uist".
O mo dhuthaich 's tu th'air m'aire
Uibhist chumhraidh ur nan gallan
Far a faighte na daoin' uaisle
Far 'm bu dual do Mhac 'ic Ailein.
Tir a mhurain, tir an eorna
Tir 's am pailt a h-uile seorsa
Far am bi na gillean oga
Gabhail oran 's 'g ol an leanna.
Uibhist chumhraidh ur nan gallan
Far a faighte na daoin' uaisle
Far 'm bu dual do Mhac 'ic Ailein.
Tir a mhurain, tir an eorna
Tir 's am pailt a h-
Gabhail oran 's 'g ol an leanna.