Museums in Annan, Dumfries and Sanquhar Exhibitions, Events and Workshops April - September 2015 ADMISSION FREE DIARY START PAGE END DATE VENUE TYPE OF EVENT TITLE DATE NO FEB 2015 JAN 2016 Dumfries Museum Foyer exhibition Waterloo remembered xi 21-MAR 20-JUN Dumfries Museum Exhibition Next of Kin xii 21-MAR 20-JUN Dumfries Museum Free family activity Drop in Next of Kin gallery activities xvii 01-APR 31-OCT Annan Museum Summer season Museum opens for 2015 iii 01-APR 04-MAY Annan Museum Exhibition Strandlines iv 01-APR 04-MAY Annan Museum Free family activity Drop in Strandlines gallery activities vii 01-APR 30-SEP Camera Obscura Summer season Camera Obscura extended opening hours ix 01-APR 30-SEP Dumfries Museum Summer season Dumfries Museum extended opening hours x Old Bridge House 01-APR 30-SEP Summer season Museum opens for 2015 xix Museum Robert Burns 01-APR 30-SEP Summer season Robert Burns Centre extended opening hours xx Centre 01-APR 30-SEP Robert Burns House Summer season Robert Burns House extended opening hours xxi Sanquhar Tolbooth 01-APR 30-SEP Summer season Museum opens for 2015 xxii Museum 03-APR 04-APR Annan Museum Free family activity Easter egg hunt at the museum vii 03-APR 05-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Find the Easter chicks xvii 07-APR 07-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Gift boxes for soldiers and trench art xvii 09-APR 09-APR Annan Museum Free family activity Natureprint pictures vii 11-APR 11-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Yuri’s night xiv 14-APR 14-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Tokens of affection xvii James M Thomson - In and Out of Tam o' 16-APR 16-APR Dumfries Museum Talk xiv Shanter 16-APR 16-APR Annan Museum Free family activity A day at the seaside! vii 20-APR 20-APR Dumfries Museum Late night social event Bake for Victory! xiv 09-MAY 06-JUN Annan Museum Exhibition Crafting a Living iv 09-MAY 06-JUN Annan Museum Free family activity Drop in "Crafting a Living" gallery activities vii 29-MAY 29-MAY Annan Museum Free family activity Half term holiday art activity - clay tiles vii 15-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums Viking Raiders and Traders xv - xvi 15-MAY 15-MAY Dumfries Museum Talk Excavating the Galloway Viking Hoard xv 16-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums Viking Traders market day xv Discovering Viking Treasure - responsible 16-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums xv metal detecting 16-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums Viking Tavern xvi World War One - the landscape legacy in 28-MAY 28-MAY Dumfries Museum Talk xvi Dumfries and Galloway 13-JUN 19-AUG Annan Museum Exhibition Whisky, Wine and Wherry Boats v Drop in Whisky, Wine and Wherry Boats 13-JUN 19-AUG Annan Museum Free family activity viii gallery activities Sanquhar Tolbooth Commemorating World War One - The Brave 01-JUL ONWARDS Exhibition xxiii Museum Men of Mennock 03-JUL 03-JUL Annan Museum Talk The History of Smuggling in Annandale vi 04-JUL ONWARDS Dumfries Museum Exhibition The Making of Dumfries xiii "The Apprentice" - drop in gallery activities 04-JUL 31-AUG Dumfries Museum Free family activity xviii and workshops Sanquhar Tolbooth 06-JUL 14-AUG Free family activity Sanquhar Summer Quizzes xxii Museum 09-JUL 09-JUL Annan Museum Free family activity Wherry boats viii 16-JUL 16-JUL Annan Museum Free family activity Smugglers' maps viii 28-AUG 31-OCT Annan Museum Exhibition A game for girls? v 28-AUG 31-OCT Annan Museum Free family activity Drop in "A game for girls?" gallery activities viii 05-SEP 24-OCT Dumfries Museum Exhibition Time and Again xiii 24-SEP 24-SEP Dumfries Museum Talk Bog Bodies in Dumfries and Galloway xvi Welcome Welcome to our spring/summer programme of venues, special exhibitions and events. In this half of the brochure you will find information about Annan Museum, Dumfries Museum, Old Bridge House Museum, Robert Burns House, the Robert Burns Centre and Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum. If you turn the brochure over, you can find details of the lively programme of temporary art exhibitions, talks and workshops available at Gracefield Arts Centre. To keep up to date with our latest news, you can join our mailing list at www.dumgal.gov.uk/artsandmuseums or by following us on Facebook and Twitter. We look forward to welcoming you at our museums. A PDF of this programme is available to download from www.dumgal.gov.uk/artsandmuseums. Updates available on Facebook (Dumfries Museum) and Twitter (@DumfriesMuseum) Gracefield WHERE TO FIND US Arts Centre Railway To Sanquhar Station Tolbooth Museum L T O S V E (27 miles) R ' Y S W A L K G M h C L i t E A A D T N A H S r e C E G A R i v I O R N E W Ewart S T S Library T R E E T T T E E L R E T BUCCLEUCH S N N S E H V Midsteeple S 'S L I R G IA N DG One R E Old F Tourist Leisure Centre Information Fountain Bridge ST Theatre ST K House N A Royal Museum B PEARE To Annan C W KES A Museum H H U IT SH E R S (17 miles) C A B N U H D R Robert S N S Dumfries S Burns Robert T Museum Burns House & Camera Centre and Obscura Film Theatre ANNAN MUSEUM Bank Street, Annan DG12 6AA Tel: 01461 201384 This family friendly museum houses a permanent exhibition on the history of Annan and the surrounding area. A fascinating journey through time takes visitors from the prehistoric period up to the era of nuclear fission. Displays include costume, First World War memorabilia, town regalia and a remarkable collection of paintings depicting Annan and the Solway shore. Look out for a 4000 year old Bronze Age burial urn, mummified baby crocodiles and the 110 year old piece of chocolate! Open 1 April – 31 October 2015 Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm Admission is free The museum also hosts a lively programme of special exhibitions and events throughout the season, together with visitor information and a shop stocking pocket money buys as well as local history books and greetings cards by local artists. iii Saturday 9 May – EXHIBITIONS Saturday 6 June Crafting a AT ANNAN Living In 1968 Werner MUSEUM Kissling settled in Wednesday 1 April – Monday 4 May Dumfries, where he Strandlines worked with the museum service as an anthropologist and photographer recording local buildings, crafts and traditional practices. By the late twentieth century many of these crafts had ceased to exist as a way to make a living, out competed by cheaper factory processes. The craft techniques were kept alive by skilled individuals and some refined the techniques to produce beautiful objects, still functional but with aesthetic properties that make them desirable to collectors. In the mid 1990s a craft development project commissioned four beautiful carved boxes to tour around schools and community venues highlighting the range of arts and crafts in the region at that time. Replenished with debris twice a day the This exhibition strandline marks the turning point of the features a selection last high tide and provides endless material of Kissling’s for the curious beachcomber. It is here that photographs the sea deposits seaweeds and creatures alongside the four torn up from below the waves as well as carved wooden debris washed down from rivers. Find out boxes and the more about what you might find on the treasures they Solway seashore and enjoy an exhibition of contain. photographs of our beautiful coastline. iv Saturday 13 June – Wednesday 19 August Whisky, Wine and Wherry Boats Smuggling along the Annandale Shore The mudflats and shingle shores of the Annandale coast provided the backdrop for a secretive trade in smuggled goods which was at its height during the 18th century. The Isle of Man was largely independent at this time. Its merchants imported luxury goods such as alcohol, tea and tobacco without paying high duty to the British government. Smugglers sailed small boats from the shores of Annandale to the island where they traded for goods. Returning to the mainland, their illegally landed contraband found a ready market north and south of the border, and often further afield. Fortunes were made - and lost! From clergyman to tenant farmer, most of the community was involved, and the government’s customs officers and dragoons had little success in controlling an arrangement which avoided a universally unpopular tax. Based on the research of social historian Frances Wilkins, this exhibition tells the story of the people and places that played a part in the smuggling chain. Friday 28 August – Saturday 31 October A game for girls? Scottish women’s football from World War One to the present day Women’s Association football was first played in Edinburgh in 1881. Although further matches were played in Scotland throughout the 1880s and 90s, it was during World War One that the women’s game was propelled into the public consciousness like never before. This exhibition looks at the rise, fall and resurrection of Scottish women’s football from the munition factory teams of World War One to its place on the international sports stage today. Discover the stories of local teams, players and matches and how football helped to change the perception of women’s roles in society. v TALKS AND FREE EVENTS Family AT ANNAN events MUSEUM Friday 3 July, 6.30pm AT ANNAN Talk on the history of Smuggling in MUSEUM Annandale by historian Frances Wilkins.