Galleries and museums in Scotland
You can’t beat a museum or gallery for a great day out - and you’ll find plenty of them to amuse you in Scotland’s towns and cities. With collections to interest anyone and everyone, you won’t be disappointed. And most are free. Not bad for a small country!
Mid May to mid September, North Ayrshire:
Displaying the history of the abbey and the town of Kilwinning, the museum is open Easter weekend and then from the middle of May to the middle of September.
May - September, Lanarkshire:
The Leadhills Miners Library was formed in 1741 and is the oldest subscription library in Great Britain.
April - September, Kirkwall:
A fascinating collection tracing the history of early domestic radio and wartime communications in Orkney.
A seventeenth century house which was rebuilt and furnished in 1975.
April - September, Angus:
One of only three cameras obscura in Scotland (the others being in Edinburgh and Dumfries) the Camera on Kirrie Hill - as well as the cricket pavilion in which it sits - were gifted to the local community in 1930 by the author J M Barrie.
Housed in a former schoolhouse which backs onto the graveyard where most of the collection was found, the museum at Meigle displays 26 pictish stones dating from the 8th to the late 10th centuries.
April - September, Dumfries and Galloway:
Built in 1992, Carsphairn Heritage Centre features a permanent timespan display of the parish, plus an annual exhibition covering an aspect of Carsphairn’s varied history.
April - September, Dumfries and Galloway
The humble birthplace of this great social historian contains many of Carlyle’s personal possessions.
Easter - September, West Dumfries & Galloway
A growing mix of exhibits portray the natural and social history of Galloway.
Easter-September, Linlithgow
The Museum is part of the Canal Centre which is administered by the Linlithgow Union Canal Society (LUCS).