Dunblane Museum

/…between each photograph, and what is there now.

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

#Museum30 theme 13 is #background. Studying background in photographs from Dunblane’s history helps identify when they were taken. Look at these photographs from railway towards Doune Road, Ardoch Crescent, Springbank Crescent, to Atholl Place & beyond. Spot differences…/👇

/…& Museum in Stirling, provided real-life background story to the House of Shaws and David Balfour in "Kidnapped" #RLSDay

#OnThisDay 1850 celebrated Scottish novelist & poet Robert Louis Stevenson was born. Cave between Dunblane & Bridge of Allan on Darn Walk inspired Ben Gunn's cave in "Treasure Island." His visits to Dunblane's Old Glassingall, home of Thomas S Smith, who founded the Smith Institute Art Gallery…/👇

#Museum30 theme 12 is #digital. Dunblane Museum has interactive digital panel, & online presence through website, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, X & more

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

#Museum30 theme 11 is #reflection. Dunblane Museum, through paintings, photographs, documents & artefacts, is reflection of changing face of Dunblane through many, many centuries. These photographs illustrate jail in Dunblane, demolished 1963, where now there is a garden…/👇

/…& 1715 Sheriffmuir battle
• Green: Victorian Dunblane
• Blue: World Wars & Atlantic Wall
• Indigo: Modern Dunblane & Murray brothers
• Violet: visions of Dunblane through paintings

🚶Visit
🗓️ Sats until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free

#Museum30 theme 10 is #rainbow

The rooms in Dunblane Museum provide a Rainbow of Time Trail, where each colour represents different era:
• Red: Dunblane early history with 4000-year-old child’s necklace
• Orange: Medieval Cathedral & religious life
• Yellow: Jacobite era…/👇

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

/…Hillside Avenue in 1946 as temporary solution to housing shortage after second world war. These were replaced by current houses in 1961. The map itself found its way to Canada, but was recently purchased and donated to the museum…/

November #Museum30 theme 9 is #map. Dunblane Museum has on map showing planned development in 1870s. Originally to cover hill behind Claredon Place, substantial villas were going to be built, but only one - Fernbank - was ever completed. Pre-fab homes were constructed in…/👇

#Museum30 theme 8 is #stitch

Dunblane Museum has celebration of Dunblane in Stitch - images of Dunblane embroidered by members of the Allanwater Patchers

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

/…attraction - this box image is of interior of Dunblane Cathedral), was based in town of Mauchline, from end of 18th century until about 1930. Mauchline ware items were often items which had purpose (such as box, beaker or letter opener) & were extremely collectable
…/

/…It was first planted in 1400. In 1841 its girth near ground was 42' 7" (nearly 13 metres), height 100' (over 30 metres)

Mauchline ware (wood created into souvenir items with transfer print line drawing of tourist attraction, often with wood from trees felled near tourist…/

#Museum30 theme 7 is #box. Dunblane Museum has Mauchline ware items, including this box, made from wood from tree (was at Dunblane's Old Kippenross) claimed to have been largest plane or sycamore tree in Scotland, tourist attraction until blown down in storm 24 Jan 1868…/👇

/…🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

November #Museum30 theme 6 is #clay. Dunblane Museum has 4000-year-old pottery food vessel, discovered in 1999 during excavations for housing development in Dunblane’s Barbush. This was in child’s burial cist, part of evidence of early Bronze Age settlement youtu.be/mGl6VlJg5Qk
…/👇

/…recollections of those living in Dunblane between 60-90 years ago

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

#ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow

November #Museum30 theme 5 is #sharing.

Dunblane Museum shop has beautifully illustrated book for sale called "Voices of Dunblane - Memories of the 1930, 40, & 50s" - memories shared by people who lived in Dunblane in these years. Oral history project recorded personal…/👇

#Museum30 theme 4 is #sketchbook. Dunblane Museum has early guidebook to museum with front cover with beautiful sketch (of entrance to museum) designed by artist Helen A Lamb

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission

November #Museum30 theme 3 is #eyes. Here are eyes of founder of Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral, & Dunblane Cathedral Museum, James Hutchison Cockburn, from portrait in Dunblane Museum

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Sats until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free

/…(still owners of the building), & of the museum, & was curator of the museum 1971-1980. Later museum was renamed Dunblane Museum, & a new sign replaced original

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Saturdays until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free

November #Museum30 theme 2 is #signage. Dunblane Museum was originally created by Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral as Dunblane Cathedral Museum, with the original sign designed by artist Helen A Lamb, who was a founder of Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral…/👇

You’ve just got time to get along to the Christmas Card & Craft Sale today in Dunblane’s Victoria Hall 10am-12 noon - where Dunblane Museum has a stall.

Dunblane Museum itself is open today until 4.30pm (last entry 4pm) where the shop has an even greater range of gifts on sale

/…stars Jamie & Andy Murray, magnificent Dunblane Cathedral, 1715 Jacobite Battle of Sheriffmuir & objects & paintings illustrating changing life in Dunblane over centuries

🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Sats until 20 Dec (closed 22 Nov)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free

November #Museum30 month of celebrating museums & heritage, first day theme “introduction.” Dunblane Museum is in building of 1624 (so over 400 years old), & shares story of Dunblane through ages from child's 4000-year-old necklace to mementos of Dunblane's tennis…/👇

/…🗓️ Dunblane Museum is now only open on Saturday mornings
🕥 10.30am-1.30pm
🆓 Admission free (donations welcome)

/…to trial accused of being a warlock as "one who has done great mischief with his sorceries & witchcraft." During trial it became clear Bryce had been tortured to make him confess to witchcraft, & as consequence Bryce was freed, but his captors were instead tried & hanged…/