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- Save to List“Convoys Remembered” is an online archive of stories contributed by veterans of the Arctic convoys and their relatives. Here you will find memories of the Allied effort to deliver vital supplies to Russia during the Second World War. The conditions were brutal and the route was perilous. The convoy vessels faced threats from enemy warships, submarines, and aircraft, not to Read more...
- Save to ListDiscover Sanquhar’s world famous knitting tradition and the story of the mines and miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel. explore how the ordinary people of Upper Nithsdale live and worked Read more...
- Save to ListThe SFRS Heritage Trust comprises of a group of dedicated volunteers who are pro active in the restoration, conservation and preservation of vintage fire engines, firefighting equipment and uniforms, as well as upholding the history and traditions of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 1294 278283The Scottish Maritime Museum is based in the west of Scotland,with sites in Irvine and Dumbarton. At these two sites, the Museum holds an important nationally recognised collection, encompassing a variety of historic ships, artefacts, shipbuilding machinery, machine tools, and fascinating personal items.Many of these exhibits can be found inside the Linthouse Building in Irvine, a unique Grade A listed, Read more...
- Save to ListThe Scottish Maritime Museum holds an important nationally recognised and varied collection of historic ships, artefacts, shipbuilding machinery, machine tools, several small vessels, canoes, lifeboats and other fascinating personal items. Read more...
- Save to ListWelcome to Scotland’s outstanding national collection of modern and contemporary art, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art comprises two buildings, Modern One and Modern Two. Set in beautiful parkland close to the Water of Leith you can explore sculpture by major artists such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread and Barbara Hepworth. Read more...
- Save to ListVisit one of Edinburgh’s most iconic buildings and explore a fascinating overview of Scotland past and present though a wealth of imagery encompassing painting, photography, sculpture and film. Meet the people who have helped shape the nation’s identity at home and abroad from Mary, Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie and Robert Burns, through to more recent pioneers in Read more...
- Save to Listncludes 1:10 scale Titanic model and exhibit. Free. Open 10 – 3pm daily. No parking, drop-off only. Nearest parking Telford St Retail Park. A small interactive and evolving museum in Inverness with nautical artefacts & large ships: e.G 1:10 scale Titanic, Buckie drifter, RNLI lifeboat & more. Read more...
- Save to ListSignal Tower Museum is located near Arbroath’s picturesque and busy harbour, in a complex of buildings originally used as the shore station and family accommodation for the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Built in 1813, Signal Tower served the lighthouse until 1955. It was adapted for the museum in 1974. Read more...