Penicuik Paper Making Museum

28/04/2026

FREE - fun and very rewarding. Read on!

We’re looking for volunteers to join our small team at Penicuik Papermaking Heritage Museum, part of Penicuik Community Development Trust, registered charity (SC037990). We’re the only papermaking museum in Scotland and we’re found at No. 1 Bridge Street, Penicuik, EH26 8LL. You can find out more on our website (www.penicuikcdt.co.uk).
As a volunteer, you’ll learn about our displays and be able to guide visitors around our small museum. You’ll also learn how to make paper and share your skills with others. Most of all, you’ll experience personal satisfaction from your interactions with our visitors. Last year we had over 500 of them!.
If you’re interested in joining us, please contact us by email at [email protected] or come and visit us at our museum one Saturday afternoon between 1.00 and 1.30 pm for a chat and have a look around.
Penicuik was to papermaking as Speyside is to whisky or Sheffield was to steel - it’s a heritage worth supporting.

28/04/2026

FREE - fun and very rewarding. Read on!

We’re looking for volunteers to join our small team at Penicuik Papermaking Heritage Museum, part of Penicuik Community Development Trust, registered charity (SC037990). We’re the only papermaking museum in Scotland and we’re found at No. 1 Bridge Street, Penicuik, EH26 8LL. You can find out more on our website (www.penicuikcdt.co.uk).
As a volunteer, you’ll learn about our displays and be able to guide visitors around our small museum. You’ll also learn how to make paper and share your skills with others. Most of all, you’ll experience personal satisfaction from your interactions with our visitors. Last year we had over 500 of them!.
If you’re interested in joining us, please contact us by email at [email protected] or come and visit us at our museum one Saturday afternoon between 1.00 and 1.30 pm for a chat and have a look around.
Penicuik was to papermaking as Speyside is to whisky or Sheffield was to steel - it’s a heritage worth supporting.

Welcome Penicuik Community Development Trust uses the skills, energy and enthusiasm of local volunteers to make Penicuik a better place for all, young and old, for business to flourish, and visitors to enjoy. We hope that you can join us! Activities Our principal activities are: Open House - Town Ha...

29/11/2025

As every year, we're now CLOSED between the last Saturday in October and the first Saturday in April. This is when we do our display refurbishing.

01/11/2025

We are now closed for refurbishing our display and will reopen on the first Saturday afternoon in April 2026.

20/07/2025

We can explain how the Egyptians made papyrus as a writing material. It was their version of paper.