St Andrews Museum

16/10/2026

10/10/2026

🔦Saturday Spotlight🔦

In this first post of our Saturday Spotlight series, we are going to shine the spotlight on one of the 10 artists featured in . Ade Adesina RSA combines depictions of objects, places and scenes from both his African heritage and British culture through traditional printmaking techniques, with an innovative approach to subject matter. We have 2 of his works currently on display at St Andrews Museum, exploring the continuously evolving relationship between humanity and the natural world. There is so much detail for your eyes to explore! Visit St Andrews University Library if you would like to see more works from this master printmaker.

Fife Contemporary
OnFife

08/10/2026

Coming soon… ✏🖼
Please phone or email to book your place. Or pop in to visit us!☺️

01334 659380
[email protected]

06/10/2026

Bookings for the next tour of our Glenrothes Collections Centre are now LIVE!
Grab a FREE ticket before they're gone!

OnFife Museums & Archives care for more than 250,000 artworks, artefacts and documents. Tour of the Collections Centre will take you around some of the fascinating objects on open storage.

The tour is taking place on:
📆Tuesday, 27 October
🕙10:30am - 12 noon
📍OnFife Collections Centre, Bankhead Central, Bankhead Park, Glenrothes, KY7 6GH

To book, please click on the link or copy and paste it to your browser:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/onfife-collections-centre-behind-the-scenes-tour-october-2026-tickets-1994778984641?aff=erelpanelorg

(Image: This photograph shows a jacquard loom card cutting machine, and some printing machinery in the Collections Centre)

04/10/2026

🍁🍂🔶We're into October, and that means it will soon be time for the October holidays! We have 2 weeks off here in Fife, and here at SAM we have 4 arts and crafts mornings. These are free and there's no need to book - just drop in and create something on one of our spooky themes...👻🎃🕷🧙‍♀️

04/10/2026

Tomorrow is the last day to book for this online workshop, part of the satellite programme. Book by the end of Monday 5 October so that the workshop materials can be sent to you in time.🌳📖

https://www.fcac.co.uk/event/stories-for-a-changing-world/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUt6XNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMW5rc0s4dFRuMmJCTkltdXFzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeB9ONwdm262pSjONzkqkDCDdKt4duXmAQ6SwUxbvr3RuXHlIQo-NfgJURsFs_aem_kBBmZ2KKYVkQUbW4OPRMRg

01/10/2026

🌍💚Dear Earth💚🌍

Wednesday to Saturday 10.30am - 4pm until 6 March 2027

Dear Earth features work by nine artists who have reflected on their own relationships to a fragile and precarious world, and through their practice have found a way to respond.

The artists aren't resigned to despair but instead embrace a sense of discomfort which looks to the future with creativity and purpose in mind.

Come and be inspired.

Fife Contemporary Creative Scotland OnFife Fife Council

01/10/2026

This tour highlights some of Fife’s histories of slavery and Empire through the objects in the Collections Centre. This tour is part of nationwide programme.

The tour is taking place on:
📆Friday, 23 October
🕙11am - 12:30 pm
📍OnFife Collections Centre, Bankhead Central, Bankhead Park, Glenrothes, KY7 6GH

To book, please click on the link or copy and paste it to your browser:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/onfife-collections-centre-black-history-collections-tour-tickets-2000172522859?aff=erelpanelorg

(Image: a page from John Thomson's New General Atlas, published in 1817)

25/09/2026

🌿As you await the opening of the Dear Earth exhibition on Wednesday 30th, why not sign up for this 2-part Dear Earth workshop? The sessions take place online and participants are sent a pack of reading and craft materials in advance. Stay tuned for more from the Dear Earth satellite programme...🍃

Calling UK-based artists, makers and creative practitioners! Join us for an exciting two-part workshop next month with artist and author Christina Riley (part of our Dear Earth Satellite Programme) 🌎🛰 Explore environmental storytelling across two online evening sessions - these will include reading, discussion and bookmaking.

📖 Session One: Reading Group & Discussion
⏰ Thursday 15 October, 6pm–7pm

📖 Session Two: Bookmaking as Activism
⏰ Thursday 22 October, 6pm–7.30pm

Tickets cost £10 + £15 refundable deposit (upon attendance of both sessions). Your ticket includes a workshop kit that is posted out to you - book by 5 October 2026. Link in comments below 👇🏽



Image: Graphic includes photograph by Christina Riley, showing a close up of handwritten notebooks and cut out paper collage pieces. Below this are the details of the workshop, with the dates and times written in yellow on a green background. "Part of Dear Earth" and "Tickets selling fast" are written on top of the photograph.

24/09/2026

Our sister museum Kirkcaldy Galleries has had this Yellow Gallé Cat keeping watch outside over the summer. Who took part in the Cat Trail? Did anyone manage to find all 17?🐈‍⬛🎨


Image shows 3 large, ceramic cats from the Wemyss Ware Cat Trail: the Wemyss Ware Yellow Gallé Cat by Griselda Hill, Asparagus Misfit the Theatre Cat by Susan Warner, and The LoveCat by Vanessa Gibson.

We're going to miss you! 😻
It's sad seeing the special Yellow Gallé Cat leave our premises... HOWEVER, we really, really hope the Friends of Kirkcaldy Galleries are successful in raising enough funds to purchase this beauty at the upcoming auction at Adam Smith Theatre.🤞

It means so much to us!
As a cultural charity, OnFife has limited funds available for acquisitions so we are extremely grateful to the Friends of Kirkcaldy Galleries for running a Crowdfunder (please see link here, https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/acquire-a-wemyss-ware-cat-for-kirkcaldy-galleries) We would love you to support. 🙏

Kirkcaldy Galleries and the wider OnFife Collections are home to one of Scotland's most significant collections of pottery made in Kirkcaldy, including examples of the renowned Wemyss Ware and an original Yellow Gallé Cat, which can be seen currently in the pottery display in our café at the Galleries. This lovely egg yellow and black cat is a traditional Wemyss Ware®️ design which has been a best seller over many years.

The giant Yellow Gallé Cat was hand painted by Griselda Hill, founder and owner of Griselda Hill Pottery Ltd which has made ®️ in Fife for over forty years! This striking sculpture would be such an important addition to our collection.
It would mean we can:
💛 preserve and keep the Gallé Cat in public ownership;
💛 keep the cat accessible to the community for future generations;
💛 boost local tourism - the cat is such a people magnet!
💛 link fun, engaging contemporary art to the historic story of Kirkcaldy's ceramics industry;
💛 commemorate a historic trail that brought creativity, pride and joy to the town! 🎊

Information on The Big Auction:
All of the Wemyss Ware Cat Trail cats will be sold at auction on 3rd October 2026 at the Adam Smith Theatre.
You will find details of the 21 lots, here https://www.cattrail.uk/auction.
The auction will be conducted by professional auctioneers Bonham's.

Adam Smith Global Foundation
The Kirkcaldy Lottery