East Lothian Council Museums Service
Children's Hickory Golf Tournament
Saturday 19th July
Children's Course, North Berwick Golf Club
Recreate old fashioned golf, played in the time of Ben Sayers, in adult and child pairs completely free! Phone Prestongrange Museum now on 0131 653 2904 to book your tee time. See our Events and Activities Page for further details.
Ben Sayers and North Berwick's Golfing Heritage
Hope Rooms, North Berwick
5th-20th July 2008, 11am-4.30pm
This photographic exhibition, organised by John Fergie, covers the town’s professionals, caddies and clubmakers, many of whom are renowned throughout the world. Many of the images on display have never been seen before in public and the Hope Rooms provide a wonderful setting for this exhibition which will interest golfers and non-golfers alike.
About us
The Museums Service came into existence in 1990 with the appointment of the first Museums Officer, although the then District Council had operated a museum in North Berwick since 1975. The service now operates museums at Prestongrange, near Prestonpans; Dunbar Town House; and John Muir's Birthplace. North Berwick Museum is currently closed pending redevelopment. In addition the service puts on exhibitions and events, and supports activities, including exhibtions, by community groups across East Lothian. Find out more from our leaflet (This is a PDF so you'll need a pdf reader to open it. If you have a Mac you can use Preview otherwise something like Acrobat Reader or the lovely, smaller Sumatra will do. Both are free.)
The permanent staff now comprises the Museums Officer, Assistant Museums Officer, Collections Officer and the Museums Education Officer, plus a Manager and three Museum Assistants at John Muir's Birthplace. Prestongrange and Dunbar museums are open seasonally from April to October, although Dunbar Town House is open at weekends from November to March staffed by volunteers from Dunbar & District History Society.
The Collections comprise some 25,000 items, ranging from steam locomotives to fine art, and including local archaeology, ceramics, textiles and costume, natural history specimens, as well as objects illustrating domestic, working and community life. Of particular importance are the Cornish Beam Engine at Prestongrange Museum, the Haddington Weavers and Craighall Friendly Society banners and a collection of stone anchors.
Collections not on display are held in our environmentally-controlled store at the Museums Service Headquarters in Haddington.
Find out more about what we do in the museum blog.
Collections and Access Policies
The Museums Service Collections Policy and Access Policy were approved by East Lothian Council in August 2005. The Collections Policy sets out our remit in terms of collecting as well as setting guidelines for recording, conserving and securing the collections. The Access Policy shows how we plan to make the collections, and information about the collections, available to the public and researchers through exhibitions, activities, publications and events.
Contact
The Museums Service can be contacted by post at:
Museums HQ
Dunbar Road
Haddington
East Lothian
EH41 3PJ
Telephone 01368 861954
Fax: 01620 828201
Email: elms@eastlothian.gov.uk
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