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Elgin Museum Scotland’s oldest community-run museum! Elgin Museum in Miniature: open Fridays - Mondays, 1pm - 4pm until 31st October. Check website before visiting

The safety of our visitors, volunteers and staff is our highest priority. We ask for your understanding & cooperation with our limited opening as we navigate through the challenges of an over 180-year-old building.

Some fantastic sea creatures created this morning - thanks to everyone who came along! 🪼🐙🐚 🪸
10/10/2026

Some fantastic sea creatures created this morning - thanks to everyone who came along! 🪼🐙🐚 🪸

Looking for ideas for the school holidays? Why not visit Elgin Museum in Miniature! We're open Fridays - Mondays (until ...
10/10/2026

Looking for ideas for the school holidays? Why not visit Elgin Museum in Miniature! We're open Fridays - Mondays (until 31st October), 1pm-4pm and entry is free!

Celebrating Scottish Museums Day and the !G is for Glasses We recently received a donation of five beautifully engraved...
03/10/2026

Celebrating Scottish Museums Day and the !

G is for Glasses 

We recently received a donation of five beautifully engraved water glasses. The engraver, Harold Gordon (1917-1996), was based in Forres and specialised in Scottish botanic designs. Despite having started collecting in 1836, we're still acquiring new objects.

Celebrating Scottish Museums Day and the !N is for Neolithic arrowhead (ELGNM: 1852.2) Late Neolithic flint arrowhead f...
03/10/2026

Celebrating Scottish Museums Day and the !

N is for Neolithic arrowhead (ELGNM: 1852.2) Late Neolithic flint arrowhead from Alves (length 5.5cm). One of many prehistoric flint tools that can be found in our collection! 

Scottish Museums Day highlights the remarkable objects cared for across Scotland's museums, galleries, libraries and heritage sites. This year's theme is the A-Z of Scottish Museums.

 

03/10/2026

Celebrating Scottish Museums Day and the !

I is for infinite irons! We have a LOT of irons in our collection, it's really quite a pressing issue! 

 

03/10/2026

Celebrating Scottish Museums Day and the !

L is for Large Tortoiseshell Butterfly ELGNM: 1956.11.30) - one of several examples of Lepidoptera our Inventory Project Manager has recorded. Natural history has always been an important part of our collection.

03/10/2026

Celebrating Scottish Museums Day and the !

E is for Elginia Mirabilis, the Marvel of Elgin! Named by E. T. Newton in 1893, fossils of this pre-dinosaur reptile were found in Cutties Hillock Quarry.

This painted cast of Elginia Mirabilis (ELGNM: 1915.16) was donated by William Taylor from Lhanbryde in 1915. The original fossil is ~250 million-years-old. 

Today Elginia is described as a pareiasaur, one of a group of parareptiles with no living descendants. Elginia grew up to 60 cm in length - the Museum has a life-size model in its collection. The marvel of Elgin was long thought to be unique to the area but the fossil remains of a similar species were found in China in 2017.

Scottish Museums Day highlights the remarkable objects cared for across Scotland's museums, galleries, libraries and heritage sites. This year's theme is the A-Z of Scottish Museums.

29/09/2026

We've applied for a Coastal Communities Fund grant to help repair our rear gallery roof - but we need your help! The public decides who will be awarded funding, so we'd love it if you could spare a few minutes to view for us!

You can vote using the QR code, follow the link in our bio or use the link below:

https://engage.moray.gov.uk/embeds/projects/50895/survey-tools/59059

VOTING CLOSES 9th OCTOBER!

Thank you from everyone at Elgin Museum!

🚨 It's klaxon time again! 🚨 We've reached the 40,000th object in our Inventory Project! Our milestone item is ELGNM: 195...
23/09/2026

🚨 It's klaxon time again! 🚨 We've reached the 40,000th object in our Inventory Project!

Our milestone item is ELGNM: 1957.60.7, a decorated pottery sherd dating to the Early Bronze Age. It is 1 of 8 pottery sherds of an EBA beaker recovered from a cist discovered near Hopeman in 1866.

One of the first on the scene of the discovery was Lady Sophia Dunbar (1814 - 1909), artist, traveller, amateur archaeologist – something of a polymath! She wrote to a friend about the discovery and made sketches - now sadly lost. Read more about this discovery and Lady Sophia Dunbar: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/d463b904571f41bfbb98501cd83f1cef?item=15

NRHE: NJ16NW34 / Numlink: 16173; Moray HER: MAB45841

This project has been made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.


Address

Side Hall, 1 High Street
Elgin
IV301EQ

Opening Hours

Monday 1pm - 4pm
Friday 1pm - 4pm
Saturday 1pm - 4pm
Sunday 1pm - 4pm

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+441343543675

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