Scottish museums and libraries with strong Victorian collections
National Institutions National Library of Scotland National Gallery of Scotland National Museums Scotland National War Museum of Scotland National Museum of Costume Scottish Poetry Library
Central Libraries The Mitchell Library, Glasgow Edinburgh Central Library Aberdeen Central Library Carnegie Library, Ayr Dick Institute, Kilmarnock Central Library, Dundee Paisley Central Library Ewart Library, Dumfries Inverness Library
University Libraries Glasgow University Library University of Strathclyde Library Edinburgh University Library Sir Duncan Rice Library, Aberdeen University of Dundee Library University of St Andrews Library
Municipal Art Galleries and Museums Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow Burrell Collection, Glasgow Aberdeen Art Gallery McManus Galleries, Dundee Perth Museum and Art Gallery Paisley Museum & Art Galleries Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum Stewartry Museum, Kirkcudbright V & A Dundee Shetland Museum Clydebank Museum Mclean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock Hunterian Art Gallery & Museum Piers Art Centre, Orkney City Art Centre, Edinburgh Campbeltown Heritage Centre Montrose Museum Inverness Museum and Art Gallery Kirkcaldy Galleries
Literary Institutions Moat Brae: National Centre for Children’s Literature Writers’ Museum, Edinburgh J. M. Barrie Birthplace Museum
Industrial Heritage Summerlee: Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, North Lanarkshire Riverside Museum, Glasgow Scottish Maritime Museum Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum, Prestonpans Scottish National Mining Museum Verdant Works, Dundee Robert Small’s Printing Works, Innerliethen
Social & Medical History The People’s Palace, Glasgow Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh Tenement House, Glasgow Surgeons’ Hall Museum
Rural Life Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther National Museum of Rural Life Skerryvore Lighthouse Museum, Tiree
Religious History St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow Blairs Museum, Aberdeen (Scotland’s Catholic Heritage)
Military History Black Watch Regimental Museum Gordon Highlanders Museum, Aberdeen
Historic Buildings Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute Glover House, Aberdeen Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire John Muir’s Birthplace Museum Holmwood House, Glasgow Britannia Panopticon
Website Resources
The Word on the Street http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/ Mackintosh Architecture http://www.mackintosh-architecture.gla.ac.uk SCRAN https://www.scran.ac.uk