Upcoming events

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  1. Relaxed Drawing

    Relaxed Drawing

    Drop into the Wardlaw Museum to relax and draw. Find a place in the galleries and take inspiration from great artworks, capture the detail of an ancient...

  2. Quiet Opening

    Quiet Opening

    Drop into the Wardlaw Museum for a Quiet Opening. Free from the hustle and bustle of a general visit, with adjusted operations, our Quiet Openings are designed...

  3. Relaxed Drawing

    Relaxed Drawing

    Drop into the Wardlaw Museum to relax and draw. Find a place in the galleries and take inspiration from great artworks, capture the detail of an ancient...

  4. Relaxed Drawing

    Relaxed Drawing

    Drop into the Wardlaw Museum to relax and draw. Find a place in the galleries and take inspiration from great artworks, capture the detail of an ancient...

  5. Music in Museums: Mary, Queen of Scots

    Music in Museums: Mary, Queen of Scots

    Maria Michaelis and Niamh Kelly (recorders) with Tonia Volvovskaya (harpsichord) - FREE

    This special concert curated by student Maria Michaelis to mark the Wardlaw Museum's Mary, Queen of Scots exhibition includes music from the period...

  6. The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    Clestrain Hall was built in the 1760s and was the childhood home of arctic explorer John Rae. It is an exceptional survival of Georgian architecture and is...

  7. People Make History

    People Make History

    Local History Day

    Celebrate the rich history of our local area at the Wardlaw Museum's Local History Day! Join us for a special event where local history groups, societies,...

  8. In Conversation --- Women and Warfare
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    In Conversation --- Women and Warfare

    Join us for a panel discussion examining how history frames and reframes women in positions of power. Looking at the years of Mary Queen of Scots and further,...

  9. Secrets and Spies

    Secrets and Spies

    All Age Activity day

    Join us at the Wardlaw Museum for a day of mystery, detection, and stealth at our Secrets and Spies Activity Day! Discover how spies played a key role in the...

  10. Time Travelers

    Time Travelers

    All Age Activity Day

    Step back in time and explore life in 16th century Scotland! Join us at the Wardlaw Museum for a day of hands-on history, crafts, and adventure suitable for all...

  11. War, Destruction and Reform: The early years of Mary, Queen of Scots

    War, Destruction and Reform: The early years of Mary, Queen of Scots

    Mary, Queen of Scots: icon, martyr, national obsession. You know her story, but what does she hide? In December 1542 Mary became Queen at six days old. For the...

  12. From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity

    From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity

    Scottish Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum - Free

    What makes a nation? Scotland has its own unique place in the world. It is a nation that is constantly changing and being changed by its people on a local and...

  13. In Conversation --- Propaganda, 'Rough Wooing' and Mary, Queen of Scots
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    In Conversation --- Propaganda, 'Rough Wooing' and Mary, Queen of Scots

    Join us for an In Conversation Panel Discussion examining how propaganda shaped the early years of Mary Queen of Scots. The discussion will also explore the...

  14. Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Exactly two hundred years ago, William Daniell published the final part of his eight-volume Voyage Round Great Britain. Daniell had started his journey in 1813...

  15. Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    DR ANNE CRONE, AOC Archaeology, will be talking about how long-running excavations at Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and Galloway have transformed our...

  16. Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    DR SOPHIA ADAMS, British Museum, tells the story of a remarkable find. In December 2021 a metal detectorist reported a possible in-situ deposit of Iron Age...