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. Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Elizabeth Petcu

    Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Elizabeth Petcu

    'Dürer's Precision'

    Join us for Dr Elizabeth Petcu's Research Lecture on 'Dürer's Precision' and a wine reception afterwards at 79 North Street.

  6. Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Richard McClary

    Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Richard McClary

    'Fake or Real? Questioning the Authenticity of Mina'i Ware Bowls'

    Join us for Dr Richard McClary's Research Lecture on 'Fake or Real? Questioning the Authenticity of Mina'i Ware Bowls' and a wine...

  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. 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...

  9. Art History Research Lecture -- Seif El Rashidi

    Art History Research Lecture -- Seif El Rashidi

    'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking Tradition from the 1880-1980'

    Join us for Seif El Rashidi's Research Lecture on 'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking...

  10. In Conversation --- Women and Warfare
    Limited access

    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,...

  11. 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...

  12. Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society (IMHS) Annual Lecture 2026 --- What is museum closure?

    Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society (IMHS) Annual Lecture 2026 --- What is museum closure?

    by Prof Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology and Director of the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck, University of London.

    What is museum closure? Over the last two years the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck (University of London) have been collecting data on which museums have...

  13. Code to the Crown

    Code to the Crown

    An escape room experience

    The Escape Room will take place in the Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History, using a theme inspired by Mary Queen of Scots but focusing on the everyday...

  14. 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...

  15. Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

    Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

    Pay as you can

    What makes life feel worth living, especially when it feels impossible to go on? Recent research into suicide prevention suggests that media reports about...

  16. 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...

  17. Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted

    Queer Tales: Women's Lives Reenacted

    Pay as you can

    In these complex modern days, we still find ourselves in the urgency of routes that keep battling gender inequality or discrimination, and that contribute to...

  18. In Conversation --- Propaganda, 'Rough Wooing' and Mary, Queen of Scots
    Limited access

    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...

  19. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    State propaganda through art and sport in fascist Italy

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  20. Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society seminar -- Martin Barnes

    Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society seminar -- Martin Barnes

    'Why Photography Matters: Changing Contexts at the V&A'

    Since its invention in the 1820s, photography has been used and understood in many ways: as a technology of seeing, a social document, a commercial transaction,...