Auchindrain for Argyll

Theatre Alba, Scotland’s best outdoor childrens’ theatre company will be performing their promenade play “The Magic Quest” at Auchindrain once a day during the course of the CHANTICA project from 20th until 26th July 2008.
“The Magic Quest” is a play for children. It received a four star review in the Scotsman and follows the [...]

Auchindrain Museum will host the Scottish element of a twenty-four month European Union, Culture 2000 funded project called Culture, Heritage and Nature together in Contemporary Art (CHANTICA) from 20th until 26th July. The project will involve five partners in five European countries:

Grampus Heritage & Training Limited (Cumbria, England)
ARCH Network (Perthshire, Scotland)
Vitra, Centre for Sustainable [...]

Simon Yuill a film maker will be visiting Auchindrain Museum on Saturday 14th June. Simon is working on a documentary.

Dave Hutchinson, FSA Scot, Churchill Fellow 2001 and Chairman of the Scottish Vernacular Buildings Working Group will be working with the Museum Manager at Auchindrain Museum from Thursday 19th until Sunday 22nd June to identify, catalogue and research the Collection of furniture held by the Museum. Dave is a speciaist in Scottish furniture and his [...]

[ July 21, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. July 22, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. July 23, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. July 24, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. July 25, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. July 26, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Auchindrain Museum has secured grant aid from Argyll and Bute Council, Museums Galleries Scotland and HIE, Argyll and the Islands to work with Theatre Alba, Scotland’s best outdoor children’s theatre company on a week of performances of the play The Magic Quest.
The Magic Quest is a promenade play for children, which was written site specific [...]

The Highland cows owned by Duncan Crawford of Brenchoillie Farm, Furnace have returned to Auchindrain for their summer holiday. The cows known to their friends as Skye and Lewis said to Museum staff that they were glad to be able to return to Auchindrain and that they would do their best to try to increase [...]

The number of people visiting Auchindrain Museum in April and May in 2008 has increased by 10% as compared to the same time in 2007. So far this year visitors to the Museum have come from places as far apart as the USA, Canada, Sri Lanka, Tel Aviv in Israel, Prague in the Czech Republic, [...]

In April 2008, Joanne Howdle, Museum Manager was lucky enough to participate on a second Innovations in Cultural Heritage Interpretation (ICHI) exchange programme to Bulgaria. ICHI exchange programmes provide opportunities for participants to learn new skills and exchange information by looking at how interpretation is used and managed in other countries in Europe. The [...]

Following in the footsteps of the pupils of Furnace Primary School, the 1st Minard Brownie Unit are working with Auchindrain Museum to produce drawings to illustrate new interpretation panels. The new panels are being developed to interpret MacCallum’s Barn (Building B), Munro’s Barn (Building J) and the Visitors’ Centre at Auchindrain. [...]

In 2007 thanks to grant aid from the Royal Horticultural Society and the Scottish Museums Council, Auchindrain Museum was able to work with Patsy Dyer, an award-winning organic gardener to restore one of the historic walled gardens or kailyards associated with the farming township of Auchindrain.
Project Outcomes
The walled garden adjacent to the one-room, thatched cottage [...]