Tag Archives: John Muir

An Elf learns from Spiderman about responsibility…

Posted on November 28, 2012 by sarah

Can you believe it’s December this weekend? I most definitely can’t!  Although saying that, I did spend last Sunday dressed as an Elf for our Victorian Christmas event in Dunbar. We were making willow Christmas trees with artist Tanwen, which … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Festival of Museums weekend!

Posted on May 18, 2012 by sarah

You join us at a rather tense moment, those few hours before our programme of events kicks off across the weekend. I really hope this weather won’t put people off coming out to join us for Festival of Museums! Festival … Continue reading →

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Work Experience

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Guest

Hello, my name is Kallan and I have been doing work experience at East Lothian Council Museum Service for the past week. Work experience is when a pupil from a school goes out to work for a week just to see what … Continue reading →

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Sculptures in sand

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Kevin

Back again, this time in one of my other capacities with the Friends of John Muir’s Birthplace. The Friends are an organisation designed to assist John Muir’s Birthplace in their work, organising talks and preparing booklets about John Muir, amongst … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia Comes to East Lothian (or is that the other way around?)

Posted on January 6, 2010 by sarah

  Calling all photographers (good or otherwise), social networking followers, or anyone who has ever used Wikipedia to look up some obscure topic….That’s nearly everyone then. Well, we are very excited as Prestongrange Museum and John Muir’s Birthplace are taking part in … Continue reading →

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