The Elphinstone Institute was established in 1995 to mark the University's quincentenary. Located in the College of Arts and Social Sciences, it is a centre for ethnologically-based study of the languages, culture and traditions of the North of Scotland. It is located in the newly refurbished MacRobert building. Institute members are active in fieldwork in local communities, and in archival research in the University's extensive collections, which include the important George Washington Wilson collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs. The University's Marischal Museum has excellent ethnographic holdings. In addition, the Institute has its own research library, and a growing sound and video archive. There are strong links with other Departments and programmes, especially the Research and Graduate Programme of Social Anthropology, Ethnology, and Cultural History, through which the Institute organises joint seminars, and with Celtic, Education, English, Music, History and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.