Kinross Museum

Kinross Museum Exploring Kinross-shire History The Kinross (Marshall) Museum is housed in the library area of Loch Leven Community Campus. There are also books for sale.

The museum takes its name from the noted local antiquarian David Marshall (1831 - 1902) who amassed a huge collection of books and artefacts which he left to the people of Kinross. The collection was originally housed in the Kinross Carnegie Library but it was not until 1974 that a dedicated museum was created above the Carnegie Library. This facility was closed by Perth & Kinross Council in 1996.

The Kinross (Marshall) Museum was created as a charitable trust a year later with the aim of opening a new museum for the benefit of local residents and visitors to Kinross. The present museum in the community campus opened in February 2010. Most of the museum displays are adjacent to the library and can be viewed whenever the library is open. As of 29 June 2021, the library opening hours are Tuesday 10am-7pm, Wednesday 10am-6pm, Thursday 10am-7pm, Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 10am-1pm. As of 1 July 2021, the Museum Study Room opening hours are Thursdays 10am-7pm and Saturdays 10am-1pm. The Museum Study Room contains further displays and archives which may assist historical research. The Study Room is staffed by volunteers. Please email or telephone first if you wish to undertake research. Kinross Museum is independent and owned by a Charitable Trust (Scottish Charity no. SC027144) and run by Friends and Volunteers. It is financed by donations, Friends of Kinross Museum subscriptions, fundraising events and grants.

Volunteers will continue to survey Portmoak cemetery on Sundays in October, weather permitting.Surveying the cemetery in...
29/09/2023

Volunteers will continue to survey Portmoak cemetery on Sundays in October, weather permitting.
Surveying the cemetery involves mapping the stones, measuring them and transcribing the inscriptions.
Sessions are 2pm-4pm. If you would like to help, just come along. Please dress appropriately for the weather. You don’t need to bring anything with you but if you have any of the following, they can be useful: Pencil, tape measure, water spray, hard brush, garden kneeling pad.
Sessions will be cancelled if it rains.

Here is another photograph of the late Queen Elizabeth's visit to Kinross on 10 October 1960. She planted a tree at Quee...
13/09/2023

Here is another photograph of the late Queen Elizabeth's visit to Kinross on 10 October 1960. She planted a tree at Queen's Crescent. The tree was replaced in recent years but the plaque is still there.
Kinross was presented with portraits of the Queen and Prince Philip on the occasion of the visit in 1960. The portraits are in now in the Museum's collection.

In anticipation of H.R.H. King Charles's visit to Kinross this Friday, we remember when the late Queen Elizabeth and Pri...
13/09/2023

In anticipation of H.R.H. King Charles's visit to Kinross this Friday, we remember when the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited Kinross on 10 October 1960.

When Kinross was tiny ......
08/09/2023

When Kinross was tiny ......

Postcard of the Day: Kinross and Loch Leven. No date.

📷 Local & Family History, AK Bell Library

GRAVEYARD SURVEYS - Change of ArrangementVolunteers made such good progress last Sunday that we FINISHED surveying the o...
08/09/2023

GRAVEYARD SURVEYS - Change of Arrangement

Volunteers made such good progress last Sunday that we FINISHED surveying the older part of the Orwell graveyard!

Rather than surveying the newer section at Orwell, we will now survey PORTMOAK cemetery. It is important to record older gravestones before they become totally illegible due to weathering or other damage.

If you would like to help with the survey work, meet at Portmoak Cemetery at 2pm on SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER.

Please dress appropriately for the weather. You do not need to bring anything with you but if you have any of the following, it could be helpful:
Pencil, tape measure, water spray, hard brush, garden kneeling pad, trowel.
The sessions last from 2pm to 4pm.

08/09/2023

Tullibole Castle will be
Open 9th to 10th September
11.00pm to 4.00pm Saturday and Sunday

Tullibole Castle is now open for weddings and events!

Sharing Perth & Kinross Archive's postcard of Lochleven Castle, c.1937.
01/09/2023

Sharing Perth & Kinross Archive's postcard of Lochleven Castle, c.1937.

Postcard of the Day: Loch Leven Castle from the Loch, c.1937. The tower house was built in the 1300s, where at one time, Mary Queen of Scots was once a guest, then a prisoner, before escaping, never to see Scotland again.

📸 Local & Family History, AK Bell Library

30/08/2023
Work on the Orwell Church graveyard project resumes on Sunday 3 September and is currently planned to take place every S...
30/08/2023

Work on the Orwell Church graveyard project resumes on Sunday 3 September and is currently planned to take place every Sunday in September. The project involves noting down the gravestone inscriptions, describing the stones, plotting their location etc.
This makes a record for the future, as inscriptions are lost as stones succumb to the weather. It can help people researching family history.
If you would like to help with the project, just turn up at 2pm on any of the Sundays in September*. The graveyard is at North Street, Milnathort.
Please dress appropriately for whatever the weather is or could be that day. You don’t need to bring anything with you but if you have any of the following, they can be useful: Pencil, tape measure, water spray, hard brush, garden kneeling pad.
The sessions last from 2pm to 4pm.
*Sessions may be cancelled if the weather is very bad. It is possible we might finish the main cemetery (surrounding the church) before the end of the month in which case we might not need all the Sundays. Check this page for updates.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our stall at the Summer Market on Saturday to buy a booklet or tombola tickets. This a...
29/08/2023

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our stall at the Summer Market on Saturday to buy a booklet or tombola tickets. This all helps with Museum funds to cover essentials such as insurance and office consumables.

Thanks to KLEO for organising the excellent Summer Market.

Booklets can be purchased from the Museum study room at Loch Leven Community Campus on Thursdays (10am-7pm) or Saturdays (10am-1pm).

Kinross Museum will have a stall at the SUMMER MARKET on Saturday 26 August in the Market Park.We'll be selling various ...
25/08/2023

Kinross Museum will have a stall at the SUMMER MARKET on Saturday 26 August in the Market Park.

We'll be selling various Kinross-shire historical booklets and will have a second hand book stall as well as a display on an aspect of local history.

Do stop by!

Another postcard from Perth & Kinross Archive which is of local interest.
25/08/2023

Another postcard from Perth & Kinross Archive which is of local interest.

Postcard of the Day: 'New road, looking east, Milnathort'. No postmark or date.

📷 Local & Family History Collection, AK Bell Library

Sharing a post by Perth & Kinross Archive showing a postcard of Glenfarg when the railway was there.
25/08/2023

Sharing a post by Perth & Kinross Archive showing a postcard of Glenfarg when the railway was there.

Postcard of the Day: In Glenfarg. No date.

📷 Local & Family History, AK Bell Library

Sharing Perth & Kinross Archive's image of Milnathort from Ba'hill.
19/08/2023

Sharing Perth & Kinross Archive's image of Milnathort from Ba'hill.

Postcard of the Day: Milnathort from Ba' Hill. No date.

📷 Local & Family History Collection, AK Bell Library

Volunteers will be working on the Orwell churchyard project again soon. This involves noting down the gravestone inscrip...
03/07/2023

Volunteers will be working on the Orwell churchyard project again soon. This involves noting down the gravestone inscriptions, describing the stones, plotting their location etc. This makes a record for the future as inscriptions are lost as stones weather. It can also help people researching family history.

The next sessions are on Sundays 9 July and 16 July from 2pm to 4pm. The graveyard is at North Street, Milnathort.

We'd love to have more volunteers. If you would like to help with the project, just turn up at 2pm on one or both of those dates. Please dress appropriately for whatever the weather is or could be that day. You don’t need to bring anything with you but if you have any of the following, they can be useful:
Pencil, tape measure, water spray, hard brush, garden kneeling pad.

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Sharing a postcard from the Perth & Kinross Archive of the Bein Inn, Glenfarg.
15/06/2023

Sharing a postcard from the Perth & Kinross Archive of the Bein Inn, Glenfarg.

No date for this postcard view of the 'Bein Inn, Glenfarg'. The 'Famous Bein Inn' was initially built as a resting place for travellers in the days of coaching on the route north to the Highlands.

📷 Local & Family History, AK Bell Library

The Kinross Museum Year of Stories Exhibition will be open from Friday 6 January and during all library opening times. T...
05/01/2023

The Kinross Museum Year of Stories Exhibition will be open from Friday 6 January and during all library opening times. The Exhibition will continue to be open during these times for the next few weeks.

This Exhibition has been supported by the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund. This fund is being delivered in partnership between VisitScotland and Museums Galleries Scotland with support from National Lottery Heritage Fund thanks to National Lottery players.

05/01/2023

Following the Christmas break, the Loch Leven Community library reopens on Friday 6 January. Most of the Museum display cases are in the library.

The library opening hours are:
Mondays 10:00 - 13:00, Tuesdays 10:00 - 19:00, Wednesdays 10:00 - 18:00, Thursdays 10:00 - 19:00, Fridays 10:00 - 18:00, Saturdays 10:00 - 15:00.

The Museum Study room reopens on Saturday 7 January 2023. The Study Room is open on Saturdays 10:00 - 13:00 and Thursdays 10:00 - 19:00. The Study Room is manned by Museum Volunteers who can answer research queries.

These are the hearth stones of one of Kinross-shire's oldest house. May be 2000 years old. You can only see them from Au...
02/01/2023

These are the hearth stones of one of Kinross-shire's oldest house. May be 2000 years old. You can only see them from August to October. Where am I?

FESTIVE HOLIDAY CLOSURE DATESThe Kinross Museum closes on Thursday 22 December 2022 at 7pm and reopens on Saturday 7 Jan...
21/12/2022

FESTIVE HOLIDAY CLOSURE DATES
The Kinross Museum closes on Thursday 22 December 2022 at 7pm and reopens on Saturday 7 January 2023 at 10am.

09/12/2022

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This 1968 image has the caption "Coventry Place from Burn-Begg Street, Kinross". How's this view today?

The Healing Waters of Fons Scotiae(Scotlandwell to you and me!)Come and see this exhibition which is part of the Museum'...
25/11/2022

The Healing Waters of Fons Scotiae
(Scotlandwell to you and me!)

Come and see this exhibition which is part of the Museum's series Heaven and Hell: Stories of Hope and Despair in Kinross-shire.

The artesian well at Scotlandwell has bubbled straight up out of the ground for thousands of years. This made people think it was magical, with healing properties.
The water has been used by:
- The people who lived here in the Bronze Age, 3000 years ago.
- The Romans
- Trinitarian Friars at the mediaeval hospital who used the water for hundreds of years to tend the sick, the poor and pilgrims.
- King Robert the Bruce is thought to have come to use the water to try to cure his leprosy.

The museum exhibition space is at the rear of the Community Library at Loch Leven Community Campus.
Opening times: Mon 10-1, Tue & Thur 10-7, Wed & Fri 10-6, Sat 10-3.

Kinross Museum volunteers would like to thank everyone who came along to the Museum’s Storytelling evening with Douglas ...
18/11/2022

Kinross Museum volunteers would like to thank everyone who came along to the Museum’s Storytelling evening with Douglas Mackay on 16 November. Inspired by the Museum’s new exhibitions, Dougie told stories from Scottish folklore of witches and wells, bogles and beasts, saints and squirrels! We hope everyone who attended enjoyed the evening and will return to view the exhibitions.

The new exhibitions were launched by Museum Chairman, David Munro, on Saturday 12 November at an event for friends and volunteers of the Museum.

The exhibitions are all on the theme ‘Heaven and Hell, Stories of Hope and Despair in Kinross-shire’ and cover:
The Witch Trials, Crook of Devon, 1662
The Healing Water of Fons Scotiae (Scotlandwell)
The Covenanters of Kinross-shire

The museum gallery space is towards the rear of the community library at Loch Leven Community Campus. The exhibitions can be viewed during the following hours:
Mon 10am-1pm, Tues & Thur 10am-7pm, Wed & Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-3pm.

This event has been supported by the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund. This fund is being delivered in partnership between VisitScotland and Museums Galleries Scotland with support from National Lottery Heritage Fund thanks to National Lottery players.

Coven. A documentary film by Rama Rau may be out soon. About a Crook of Devon witch and the old Old Orwell Churchyard.
15/11/2022

Coven. A documentary film by Rama Rau may be out soon. About a Crook of Devon witch and the old Old Orwell Churchyard.

An image of the war memorial at Milnathort included in this collection from Perth & Kinross Archive.
13/11/2022

An image of the war memorial at Milnathort included in this collection from Perth & Kinross Archive.

12/11/2022

View of the former Ochil Hills Sanatorium near Milnathort. The building was formally opened on 16 July 1902 as a tuberculosis sanatorium and closed in 1987 before being demolished in 2003.

There's a limited number of places left for our Storytelling Evening on Wednesday 16 November!This will be a great eveni...
10/11/2022

There's a limited number of places left for our Storytelling Evening on Wednesday 16 November!

This will be a great evening and is part of our Heaven and Hell, Stories of Hope and Despair in Kinross-shire community project.

Book your place at this FREE event by emailing [email protected] now!

The event takes place at 7pm on Wednesday 16 November at Loch Leven Community Library.

Big news from Perth
08/11/2022

Big news from Perth

02/11/2022
10/10/2022

Come and join Perth Museum & Art Gallery staff and go behind the scenes of one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the UK and see areas normally off-limits to the public for .

We have tours available at the following dates and times:
⌚ 18 Oct / 2pm
⌚ 20 Oct / 11am
⌚ 21 Oct / 2pm

Book your spot for £4 at https://bit.ly/3wD4QJI

It's not Kinross-shire, but an interesting looking exhibition has just opened at the Perth Museum & Art Gallery.
10/10/2022

It's not Kinross-shire, but an interesting looking exhibition has just opened at the Perth Museum & Art Gallery.

As we continue to share memories, here is a photograph of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, escorted by Lord L...
20/09/2022

As we continue to share memories, here is a photograph of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, escorted by Lord Lieutenant Captain Charles Adam of Blairadam, meeting invited guests at the County Buildings, Kinross during the royal visit on 10th October 1960.

20/09/2022
Just a reminder that Lord Moncreiff will be telling stories about the Fossoway Warlock and others at the Witches Maze at...
14/09/2022

Just a reminder that Lord Moncreiff will be telling stories about the Fossoway Warlock and others at the Witches Maze at Tullibole Castle this Friday, 16 September, at 5.30pm.

As an expression of their sadness at the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the trustees, friends and volunteers of Kinross ...
10/09/2022

As an expression of their sadness at the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the trustees, friends and volunteers of Kinross (Marshall) Museum have placed roses in front of a signed photographic portrait of Her Majesty presented to the people of Kinross on the occasion of her visit to the burgh in October 1960.

In response to our upcoming exhibition Lord Moncreiff of Tullibole Castle is holding a storytelling event at the Tullibo...
16/08/2022

In response to our upcoming exhibition Lord Moncreiff of Tullibole Castle is holding a storytelling event at the Tullibole Maze on 16 September 2022 from 5.30pm -7pm.

"Lord Moncreiff telling stories about the Fossoway Warlock (Necromancer) and others at the Witches Maze"

For further information please contact [email protected]

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Saturday 10am - 1pm

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Sunday 10th January 2020 saw the 80th anniversary of the re-founding of Kinross BB by Roddy Beaton - this is his inscription on the inside cover of the BB roll book used back then.
Together with Kinross Museum and TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland) and designer Esther Kent, KLEO has produced a Loch Leven Story map which will 'premiere'/be handed out for the first time at The Blether Bus Tours on Sunday 24 Nov, 11am and 2pm leaving from Loch Leven Community Campus. This image is part of the map designed by Esther. For more info about the bus tours click here: http://www.kleo.org.uk/kinross-winter-festival/news/the-bus-tour-is-back-
I have come into the possession of a little book published by Robert Grant, Edinburgh, in 1928 entitled “A Seceder’s Notebook of Sermons, 1698 to 1721” written down by William Flockhart of Annacroich.

In the forward a descendent, Jane Edith Flockhart, tells something of the discovery of this book on a local farm. She has also inscribed the book, about the size of a paperback.

I have been unable to find any reference to this book on the internet and assume it was a very small printing run.

If you can point me toward anyone who may be able to help, or if there is an historical association that can do the same, it would be much appreciated.

If the book is of historical significance I would be glad to donate it.

The Rev. Canon George R. Eves
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