Festival of Museums is here

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Today marks the return of Festival of Museums, one of Scotland’s most innovative and exciting programmes designed to ignite imaginations and celebrate Scotland’s wealth of culture.

Organised by Museum Galleries Scotland, this year’s Festival of Museums runs from today until Sunday 20 May, coinciding with other Europe-wide celebrations of the many eclectic cultural experiences offered to visitors by museums and galleries including Museums at Night.

Festival of Museums this year will have nearly 90 daytime and evening events taking place in museums all across Scotland, from Aberdeen to Ayrshire and Skye to Stirling, there’s an exciting programme and many of the events are free.

This year, visitors can enjoy some sleuthing at the Bell Pettigrew Museum in St Andrew’s; settle down to some wistful and wonderful Celtic fairy tales at the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow; discover Scotland’s ‘horrible history’ at the Falconer Museum in Forres, Moray; listen to Tosca in the National Galleries in Edinburgh or attend a Japanese tea ceremony at Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura. From little ones to big kids, and young Einsteins to avid inventors – there’s something for everyone.

Read the full event listings at festivalofmuseums.com

Published
18th May 2012

Region
Aberdeen City & Shire
Angus and Dundee
Argyll, The Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling & Trossachs
Ayrshire & Arran
Dumfries and Galloway
Edinburgh & The Lothians
The Outer Hebrides
The Kingdom of Fife
Glasgow & the Clyde Valley
The Highlands
Orkney
Perthshire
Scottish Borders
Shetland

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MGS