Auchindrain Museum will be closed to members of the public on 25th October 2008 due to bad weather. We apologise for any problems that this might cause but it is for reasons of public safety. We aim to be open again on 26th October until 31st October.
The Township of Auchindrain, has, along with five other Museum Collections located across Scotland, been recognised as being significant to the nation under the Recognition Scheme.
Managed by Museums Galleries Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, the Recognition Scheme aims to identify, and subsequently support, Museum Collections of national significance held in Scotland’s Museums and Galleries.
This announcement brings the number of Recognised Collections of National Significance across Scotland to 33. Custodians of Recognised Collections are presented with specially designed plaques and certificates. They also currently have the opportunity to bid for up to £40,000 of funding to undertake a project to increase access to their Collections and improve how they are cared for.
The six latest Recognised Collections are:
1) The Township of Auchindrain
2) Museum of Edinburgh, Applied Art Collection
3) Elgin Museum, Fossil Collection
4) National Burns Collection Partnership
5) Orkney Islands Council, Archaeology Collection
6) Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Scottish Art Collection
Sgioba Luaidh Inbhirchluaidh (Inverclyde Waulking Group) who specialise in bringing to life traditional Gaelic work songs will be waulking at Auchindrain Museum on 6th September. The event is FREE for Museum ticket holders and residents of Furnace and Inveraray.
Auchindrain Museum, By Inveraray, Argyll, PA32 8XN. Tel: 01499 500235
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Tell a Story Day - Hallowe’en: Light and Dark storytelling with Patsy Dyer at 7pm on 31st October at Auchindrain Museum
Tell-a-Story Day is a national celebration of storytelling. Auchindrain Museum in partnership with Argyll and Bute Council’s, Arts Development Officer will be holding a Hallowe’en storytelling event at 7pm on 31st October as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. Patsy Dyer an accredited storyteller from Ardfern will be telling stories about Hallowe’en, the old Celtic New Year when the year turns from light to dark. Like Hallowe’en, storytelling is for everyone, old and young, and both together. Why not take advantage of the witching month of October to explore the spooky stories of the season at Auchindrain Museum.
Cost: £3.50 for adults (including refreshments) & £2.50 for children (including refreshments)
Auchindrain Museum, By Inveraray, Argyll, PA32 8XN. Tel: 01499 500235
From 20th until 25th July Auchindrain Museum will host in partnership with ARCH Network, Comrie, Perthshire the Scottish element of a twenty-four month, European Union funded project that involves young people from Scotland, England, Slovenia, Slovakia and Greece.
As part of the CHANTICA project the Museum will be running amongst other things felt-making workshops; weaving workshops; basket-making workshops; Gaelic waulking workshops and storytelling workshops. All of the workshops will be running from 10.30am until 4pm on 21st, 23rd and 24th July. Friday 25th July will see a special performance to celebrate the end of the project, so come along and visit the Museum and join in the fun.
All activities FREE for Museum ticket holders (normal admission charges apply).
Theatre Alba, Scotland’s best outdoor theatre company will be in residence at the Museum and performing their play “The Magic Quest” from 20th until 26th July.
“The Magic Quest” is a play for children. It received a four star review in the Scotsman and follows the journey of Corrieburn the elf and Tumshie, her companion on a quest to save their world. Using the assistance of the children in the audience they will solve the clues that they find on their journey to find the magical Dragon who is the only one who can save their world from destruction. They meet strange and wonderful people. Witches – good and evil, The Trout of Knowledge, The Singing Ringing Tree, and a very bad tempered Ogre. Will these folk help or hinder them?
Performance Times:
2pm on 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th July
11am on 25th July
11am and 2pm on 26th July
Performance FREE for Museum ticket holders (normal admission charges apply).
If you intend to attend a performance of “The Magic Quest” please wear waterproof clothes and shoes.
1st Minard Brownies who were taking part in the BT Big Sleepover on the night of Saturday 14th June camped out in MacNicol’s House (Building D) at Auchindrain Museum. The Brownies slept in the wooden box-beds of the house much to the dismay of the swallows who normally sleep in the house and who were evicted for the night. The event was a big success, although the Museum Manager says that the box-bed that she slept in was the most uncomfortable place that she had ever slept!
David Hutchinson, Chairman of the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group and Scottish furniture expert has identified a rare Bible chair that is in the Collection held at Auchindrain Museum. The Bible chair which was donated to the Museum in 1967 came from a house in Southend, Kintyre but was made in Ayrshire. The Bible chair is one of only ten Bible chairs to have survived in Scotland to the present day. Pictured is Saul Hutchinson photographing the Bible chair as part of the documentation process.
Patsy Dyer, award winning organic gardener and President of the Lorn Garden Club will be conducting a guided tour of the restored walled garden adjacent to Bell Pol’s House (Building M) at Auchindrain Museum on 12th July 2008.
In November 2007, Argyll and Bute Council commissioned the Museum Manager of Auchindrain Museum and the Director/Curator of Kilmartin House Museum to curate and develop Campbeltown Museum and provide curatorial advice to the other independent Museums in the region, as part of a Service Level Agreement.
On 28th March 2008 the Museum Manager made her first visit to Mull Museum as their curatorial advisor. Campbeltown Museum will reopen to the public on 26th June 2008.
