Please note, the museum will be closed between 11.30am-12pm each day. This four-star attraction offers visitors a range of facilities and services for an educational and fun day out. Our Stairwell Gallery provides the perfect location to display your own works of art. Please contact the Collections & Exhibitions Manager for more information: 01236 856 371. For meetings with a difference, consider our conference room. Audio-visual facilities and a choice of seating arrangements are available. Catering and Wi-Fi access can be arranged. Contact us at 01698 274590 for more details. The Centre provides a range of workshops for nursery classes and primary schools and offers loan boxes on various topics. Please ask for our current What's On Schools brochure for more details or phone 01236 638 452 for more information. Craft activities and events for families are run over every Saturday and school holidays from 11am-3pm. Most activities are drop-in and cost from £1.00 per activity. Don't forget, we have an enclosed garden with outdoor toys and games available in good weather. Also based within the centre is the viewing tower, located on the fifth floor of the building, giving an excellent view of the Clyde Valley region, the Campsie Fells, and of mountains from Tinto Hill to as far back as Ben Lomond. Visitors who wish to research their local or family history can do so in our friendly local history room on the first floor. Here all are welcome to explore North Lanarkshire's extensive historical archives collections which span from the 15th century to the present day and include poor relief records and cemetery day books. The Local History department also holds a wide range of resources covering the areas of Motherwell, Bellshill, Shotts and Wishaw (Old Motherwell District) and offers one-to-one advice and guidance on researching your family tree. Please ask for our more detailed Archives and Local Studies leaflets or call 01698 274590 for more information. You can also access the museum collections which relate to Motherwell and the surrounding area which are located within the museum store. Curators are available every Wednesday in the Heritage Centre if you have a potential object you would like to donate or if would like to view objects from the collections. There is a small shop selling a range of books, DVDs and postcards on the local area as well as pocket money toys and sweets. Copies of photographs of old North Lanarkshire can be purchased from our Archives and Local History departments. We have a small seating area with a vending machine and coffee/tea maker for visitors to use. Lifts to all floors, accessible WC on the ground floor, assistance given in the search room for visitors with a visual impairment, induction loop, and free car parking at the rear of the building with three spaces for blue badge holders.
