What's on in Museums this December?
Winter season museum opportunities
Explore historic records and online exhibitions at www.johngraycentre.org
Revisit past exhibitions from John Muir’s Birthplace www.jmbt.org.uk
Explore the paths around Prestongrange Museums using the mobile phone tour as a guide through 400 years of local industry. www.eastlothian.gov.uk/prestongrange
Take a tour of Dunbar Town House Museum and Gallery with Dunbar and District History Society on a Saturday afternoon. www.eastlothian.gov.uk/dunbar-town-house
Come in out of the cold
Museums are warm, friendly and free to visit with regularly changing craft activities suitable for children and families as well as temporary exhibitions and reference books available to browse and read. Check out the links below for our festive opening hours.
John Muir's Birthplace has a new exhibition, Christmas crafts and some lovely locally-designed gifts in stock.
New Exhibition
Flight disruption
John Muir’s Birthplace, High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1JJ
Saturday 6 December to Saturday 31 January
(closed Thursday 25 December to Friday 2 January)
Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 1pm to 5pm
Free admission
This exhibition is a collection of prints of wild British birds that are impacted by climate change. Climate change is affecting our birds in many ways: warming seas impact the food chain, rising sea levels change the geography of where birds can breed and lay eggs, bad weather can make it hard to find food and feed young and extreme temperatures can make survival difficult. Numbers of British birds are predicted to fall drastically over the coming years. The exhibition features original, hand-pulled, linocut prints of birds seen along the coast of East Lothian. Many of the birds featured are impacted in some way by climate change and are either on the red or amber list of the BTO Birds of Conservation Concern in the UK.
John Gray Centre Museum
Cryptic Christmas Trail and Crafts
Challenge yourself with our cryptic Christmas trail!
Suitable for all ages. A selection of Christmas craft activities will also be on offer too.
Last chance to see
Golden Days: The life of Charlie Horne
30 August through until 13 December
John Gray Centre (Museum). 15 Lodge Street, Haddington, EH41 3DX.
Free admission.
Thursday and Friday 10am to 1pm, 2pm to 5pm, Saturday 10am to 1pm, 2pm to 4pm.
www.johngraycentre.org
Charlie Horne is a local D-Day veteran, fisherman, husband, father and a great dancer!
Using images and material from Charlie's own extensive collection, Golden Days looks back over his life. Featuring audio recordings from Charlie, a diary he kept during D-Day, film footage, family letters and images, Golden Days tells the story of a fascinating life well-lived.
East Lothian Council Museums
15 Lodge Street, Haddington, EH41 3DX.
Thursday and Friday 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm
Saturday 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm
126 High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1JJ.
Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm
Sunday 1pm to 5pm
High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1ER.
Wednesday to Sunday 1pm to 5pm
(from Wednesday 2 April to Sunday 28 September)
Morrison’s Haven, Prestonpans, EH32 9RX.
Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 4.30pm
(from Wednesday 2 April to Sunday 28 September)
School Road, North Berwick, EH39 4JU.
Wednesday to Saturday 11am to 4pm
(from Wednesday 9 April to Saturday 25 October)
65 High St, Musselburgh, EH21 7BZ.
Thursday to Saturday 10.30am to 4pm
(from Thursday 3 April to Saturday 27 September)