Kinross Museum
 Exploring Kinross-shire History
Kinross (Marshall) Museum
Museum Exhibitions and Kinross Library Opening times  
Monday     10 - 6
Tuesday    10 - 8
Wednesday  10 - 8
Thursday   10 - 8*
Friday     10 - 6
Saturday   10 - 3
*

The exhibition cases are in the Kinross Library so they can be viewed whenever the Library is open.

* The Study Room is open

MUSEUM NEWS
The Home Guard Speaks

We have found 2 hours of taped conversation between members of the Home Guard made in 1986

You can listen to a short extract here or visit the museum to hear more



This Happens In War Touring Exhibition
From mid October 2010 to end of March
 
This Happens in War has contributed to Remembering Scotland At War, a pioneering online museum with a social networking area particularly aimed at ‘capturing memories’ which has been developed by Museums Galleries Scotland.  It showcases and encourages personal accounts from civilians, younger and older veterans, and currently serving military of how conflict has affected them.

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Alex Salmond
 

Alex Salmond the First Minister signs our visitors book while the Museum Chairman Dr David Munro looks on.
23/03/2010
Kinross-shire Home Page

Kinross-shire
Volunteers and Friends Wanted

 Do join us and help us to get Kinross Museum operational once more.
The Friends Page

To see a PDF form and become a Friend of Kinross Museum

Exhibition
From April
KINROSS-SHIRE ROCKS!


Volcanoes Glaciers Floods Lava and Fossils
Geology of Kinross-shire as well as coal mining and stone quarrying

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The Curator
Kinross Museum.
Loch Leven Community Campus
Kinross.
KY13 8FQ
Tel:  01577867153
kinrossmuseum@live.co.uk

Maps and Plans index now on line

Newspaper cuttings and old newspapers

Kinross Community Council Newsletter Obituaries  1977 onwards

Kinross Community Council Newsletter Articles
March 1994 onwards

Collection of historic books and pamphlets


A video of the first day of
Kinross High School
29/10/2009


New Museum project at the

LOCH LEVEN COMMUNITY CAMPUS
The Kinross-shire Roll of Honour


David Marshall

The David Marshall Bequest
When the antiquarian, archivist and collector David Marshall of Kinross died in 1902 he left all his Historical Books, Manuscript Collections in Natural History and historcol items to a Trust to hold for behalf of the inhabitants of Kinross.untill a museum could be founded.

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A big thank you to
The Arthur & Margret Thomson Trust
for £5000 which will go towards acquiring
essential IT equipment, storage equipment and display equipment. 
Standong Stones

Kinross Museum is independent, Owned by a Charitable Trust
(Scottish Charity no. SC 027144) and run by Friends and volunteers.
It is financed by donations, Friends' subscriptions, fund-raising events, grants, and sales from the Museum shop. Entry to the museum is free.
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Some of the images and photos on this site come from residents of Kinross-shire and friends of www.kinross.cc
Last updated  18/07/2010