Dunblane Museum

15/10/2026

🪡🧵 It's today. Dunblane Museum has a sampler on display dating back to 1821 when sewing was seen as an important accomplishment for girls to have in Scottish schools. Girls were required to sew samplers demonstrating different kinds of stitches. Religious and moral messages were often included in exercises in the hope young girls would absorb them as they sewed. This sampler was created by Jane Kinross with biblical quotations along with letters and numbers 1-10

🗓️ Dunblane Museum is open Monday-Saturday (until 23 October)
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm
🆓 Free admission (donations welcome)

12/10/2026

For the school holidays, parents with children visiting Dunblane Museum, there’s a special tour in the free Bloomberg Connects Digital Guide which adds a narrated mouse voice describing fun activities to our very popular mice characters search - each linking to a nearby museum object.

https://dunblanemuseum.org.uk/digital-guide

🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

12/10/2026

All are welcome to the special exhibition until 23 October in Dunblane Museum: “A Fine Line & A Piece of Old Rope” - fine line drawings and printmaking by Christine McIver and Peter McIver

Dunblane Museum is open Monday to Saturday, 10.30am to 4.30pm (last admission 4pm) - free admission.

09/10/2026

🗓️📮✉️ It's today as the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union, created to facilitate the exchange of mail internationally. In this image (top-left) you can see the thatched Post Office at the foot of Dunblane High Street in 1888. That building was replaced in 1892 with the top-right Post Office building, image from c1907 (now Charisma). The Post Office later moved to its current location in Stirling Road (image at bottom-left). There was also a sub post office at the corner of Laighill Loan and Ramoyle.

In 2012, with Andy Murray winning Olympic Gold Medal, Royal Mail marked his status as Olympic champion by painting a post box gold in his home town of Dunblane


🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited

04/10/2026

The building in which Dunblane Museum is housed, right across from Dunblane Cathedral, is owned and maintained by the Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral. This past week saw the scaffolding taken down after months of external restoration work - this photograph is from this morning showing the museum new limewash coating looking magnificent in the early morning sun.

If you’d like to contribute to the appeal by the Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral to help with the costs you can get details of doing so by getting in touch via this link:

https://forms.churchdesk.com/f/SJEBzzQ3G

04/10/2026

🗓️🏌️‍♂️⛳️ It's

today. Dunblane New Golf Club's 18-hole course was designed by Major Cecil Hutchison and James Braid in 1922, with play starting in 1923, then officially opened in 1924. It's called 'new' because it replaced the 9-hole course, at what is now the Laighills Park, for Dunblane Hydropathic Club which opened in 1892 - the Hydropathic Hotel (Dunblane Hydro) having been built in 1878

🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited

02/10/2026

30/09/2026

For parents with children visiting Dunblane Museum there’s a special tour in the free Bloomberg Connects Digital Guide which adds a narrated mouse voice describing fun activities to our very popular mice characters search - each linking to a nearby museum object.

https://dunblanemuseum.org.uk/digital-guide

🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited

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29/09/2026

🗓️✍️📖 1902 Scotland’s William McGonagall died. He was widely acclaimed as the worst poet in history, and he composed many poems including about the Jacobite battle at Dunblane, "The Battle of Sheriffmuir" beginning in the same style as his most famous poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster:

🗣️ ’TWAS in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November,
Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember;
On that day the Earl of Mar left Perth bound for Sheriffmuir,
At the same time leaving behind a garrison under Colonel Balfour.

🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited