The Stewartry Museum

02/04/2026

The Stewartry Museum will be open all Easter weekend including Sunday 11-4.

30/03/2026

Over at Kirkcudbright Galleries, join us for a drop-in Viking-Age wire workshop from 11am, Tuesday 31st March with the fantastic Wordsmithcrafts

30/03/2026

Are you keen to find out more about the Viking Age artefacts in the museum? If so, there is a great museum blog available on the Kirkcudbright History Society website.

Over at Kirkcudbright Galleries we will be joined by Wordsmithcrafts tomorrow for a drop-in Viking-Age wire workshop from 11am Suitable for all ages and completely free to attend. Joined skilled craftsmen to create your own wire pendant to take home.

Museum Blog.
With the Galloway Hoard Crystal jar currently being on loan from the RMS at Kirkcudbright Galleries our latest Blog is covering other Viking items which are on display in the Stewartry Museum. These include items found some grave goods found in Kirkcudbright Kirkyard. https://www.kirkcudbrighthistorysociety.org.uk/news/museum-blog-viking-goods/

02/12/2025

This intricately etched trivet was forged by Auchencairn Blacksmith and Poet Joseph
Heughan. It forms part of a wider display about this intriguing local Victorian craftsman, which includes miniature ploughs, candle s***fers and hooks.
To find out more about Joseph Heughan, read the Kirkcudbright History Society Museum blog:

https://www.kirkcudbrighthistorysociety.org.uk/news/museum-blog-joseph-heughan-blacksmith-and-poet/

25/08/2025

Jessie M. King's Sea Pageant, 1937. The young lady in the net represents the River Dee. The lobster children hold up her dress, and Jessie's fairy boat can be seen in the background. To the far right of the photograph, E.A. Taylor can be seen in his role as St Mungo.

22/08/2025

This small wooden s***f box once belonged to William Johnston, a local Kirkcudbright merchant who donated money in his will to create the Johnston school. The small, precise script tells the story of the s***f box, which was created as a souvenir of the Battle of Waterloo, created from the limb of a tree which once stood in the battlefield.

If you would like to find out more, read the Kirkcudbright History Society Museum Blog here:

https://www.kirkcudbrighthistorysociety.org.uk/news/museum-blog-s***f-box/

30/07/2025

Today, 1-3pm join us for a Minature Weaving workshop at The Stewartry Museum. Suitable for all ages, free drop-in workshop.

Wednesday 30th July, 1-3pm The Stewartry Museum

24/07/2025

👏 amazing

The interior of the town's rebuilt lifeboat station has also been recreated for the Boatshed Bricks exhibition.