Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum

Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum Explore 14,000 years of rural and small town life in Biggar and Upper Clydesdale. We are an accredited museum, 5* Visitor Attraction.

Interactive Victorian streetscape, exhibition gallery and modern displays. Dedicated car and coach parking available.

We have had many questions about this and we can confirm that Helen and Neil, great friends to the Museum, will be hosti...
04/06/2026

We have had many questions about this and we can confirm that Helen and Neil, great friends to the Museum, will be hosting their ever popular, graveyard walks again during this Gala Week.

1) Friday 12th June, Ancestors Walk, Biggar Kirk Gate, 7:30pm

The stories behind some of the names on the gravestones in Biggar Kirkyard, with Helen Lambie and Neil Paynter.

2) Sunday 14th June, Ancestors Walk, Crofts Cemetery Gate (Crown Rigg), 2pm

The stories behind some of the names on the gravestones in Crofts Cemetery, with Helen Lambie and Neil Paynter.

We are very excited to once again welcome to the Museum, fashion and textiles historian, Ellie McCartney.Ellie’s talk, ‘...
03/06/2026

We are very excited to once again welcome to the Museum, fashion and textiles historian, Ellie McCartney.

Ellie’s talk, ‘The Jewish Neue Frau in Weirmar Berlin,’ will be on Thursday 25th June 7pm at Biggar Museum.

Tickets now available at the Museum. £10 each.

Its been a long time since Cherubs guarded The Jubilee Fountain on the High Street. Although they look like boys they ...
01/06/2026

Its been a long time since Cherubs guarded The Jubilee Fountain on the High Street. Although they look like boys they were in fact modelled on a girl – Jean Lindsay, daughter of the station master. Her uncle, James Lindsay, a draughtsman with Steven MacDowell, Ironfounders, designed and built the fountain.
It was quite fitting that Cubby's helped move one of them in to THE TREASURES FROM THE ATTTIC EXHIBITION as when the fountain was removed in 1947 the four small figures astride water-spouting dolphins were rescued by Nessie Cuthbertson, wife of James A Cuthbertson and after a while in Nessie's garden they have since been preserved by Biggar Museum Trust.

Some of the pots available at the museum book and plant fair.
30/05/2026

Some of the pots available at the museum book and plant fair.

Its been an exciting time at the museum watching and waiting on the new book from Jim Ness. Historical Guide to Biggar B...
30/05/2026

Its been an exciting time at the museum watching and waiting on the new book from Jim Ness.
Historical Guide to Biggar Beyond the High Street is now available in the Museum shop. Price £16.50.
Its a sentimental journey of Biggar's past that has a lot of images never published before.

Friends of Biggar Museums Book and Plant Fair opens Saturday 10am until 3pm.Lots of great books and a treat of small pot...
29/05/2026

Friends of Biggar Museums Book and Plant Fair opens Saturday 10am until 3pm.
Lots of great books and a treat of small pots of germinated Blue Poppy seedlings ready to pot on for sale.

28/05/2026

A new book in the Museum Shop. The staff think this is one of the best Childrens books in a while.
The Street Beneath my Feet. An excellent gift priced at £14.99.

The Friends of Biggar Museum are hosting their annual Book & Plant Sale this Saturday (30th) at the Museum.This has been...
26/05/2026

The Friends of Biggar Museum are hosting their annual Book & Plant Sale this Saturday (30th) at the Museum.

This has been a perfect week for gardening (or enjoying someone else's gardening with a nice book!)

There will be a small selection of unusual and interesting antiquarian books for sale too.

Sale on 10am to 3pm but last year many of the plants went very quickly so the earlier the better.

It is the opening weekend for our 'Treasures from the Attic' exhibition.Can anyone recognise what Robert Gemmell Hutchis...
24/05/2026

It is the opening weekend for our 'Treasures from the Attic' exhibition.

Can anyone recognise what Robert Gemmell Hutchison painted in 1889?

The exhibition is free to enter and will run until 26th July 2026.
Museum open Tuesday to Saturday 10-5pm and Sundays 1-5pm.

Adding the final touches to the Treasures from the Attic Exhibition which opens at The Museum on Saturday 23rd May.A ver...
22/05/2026

Adding the final touches to the Treasures from the Attic Exhibition which opens at The Museum on Saturday 23rd May.
A very special item we have in the collection is a sketch book by Scottish Artist William Crozier (1893-1930).
The sketchbook of people in Biggar, was completed around 1924 on one of his journeys to Biggar to visit his family, Weir the Plumbers.
This is a sketch from the book of Laura Ritchie whose parents took Upper Crossknowe for the FAIR.
Annie Weir donated the sketchbook to the museum in 1995.
Some of you may recall Annie.

Address

156 High Street
Biggar
ML126DH

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

Telephone

01899221050

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