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Clackmannanshire Council Museum & Heritage Service

A small showcase for the treasures of Clackmannanshire
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The collection is stored in the former Liberal Club, Mar Street, Alloa, a fine building of 1904. The eclectic collection includes items of archaeological, social and industrial history relating to Clackmannanshire, including W & J A Bailey’s Alloa Pottery; material from the Alloa Glass work, probably the oldest glassworks in Europe still working on the same site; artefacts from Paton and Baldwin’s Kilncraigs wool-spinning mill and weaving looms related to the weaving industry of the Hillfoot towns and villages.

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Campbeltown Museum

Museum holds material pertaining to local social, industrial and natural history along with geology and much, much more
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Campbeltown Museum offers a unique insight into Campbeltown’s ancient and more modern past. With a fascinating and nationally important Archaeological Collection, the museum describes the creation of the natural landscape of Kintyre and how its first peoples came to Kintyre to farm the area’s fertile lands. Neolithic stone axe heads and cooking pots, sit alongside Bronze Age jet necklaces and swords. 

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Callendar House

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Museums
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Callendar House dates from the 14th century. It is set in the nationally-important historic designed landscape of Callendar Park, which also contains a section of the Antonine Wall World Heritage Site.

The House's permanent displays are The Story of Callendar House, a history covering the 11th to the 19th centuries, The Antonine Wall, Rome's Northern Frontier, and Falkirk: Crucible of Revolution 1750-1850, tells how the local area was transformed during the first century of the industrial era.

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Bute Museum

Experience the archaeology, history and natural history of the Island in the Bute Museum
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Bute Museum is an independently run museum where visitors can explore the Natural and Historical Heritage of the Isle of Bute. The History & Archaeology Gallery has displays covering aspects of Bute's History from Mesolithic and Neolithic times through to the closing years of the 20th century. The Natural History Gallery allows visitors to explore the geology, plants, animals and birds

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St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross

One of the most important examples of modernist architecture in Scotland
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Religious Buildings
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St Peter’s seminary, built to train priests on a windy hillside west of Glasgow following the burning down of its predecessor, opened in 1966 and closed in 1980. It is the most remarkable modern ruin in Britain and one of the best of any time. It is something to do with the combination of intended and accidental drama, the contest of forces of nature and of human creation and destruction.

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Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway

Full steam ahead for great family fun
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This hidden gem, only 40 minutes from Glasgow and Edinburgh, is located in the historic town of Bo’ness.

Climb aboard a wonderfully restored carriage and enjoy a scenic ten mile return train journey to Manuel along the Forth Estuary, through woodlands, past waterfalls and over the Avon Viaduct. The new platform at Manuel is ready for you to stretch your legs and watch the locomotive run round the train and get your chance to meet the train driver.

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Auchindrain Museum

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Once, Scotland had thousands of “townships”, small farming communities where groups of families worked together. Then, two hundred and fifty years ago, the world began to change.

The townships were replaced by modern farms, crofting and large estates. In some places the process was known as the Highland Clearances. A few townships remained, but most of these had gone by 1900.

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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum

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The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum is located in the King’s Old Building of Stirling Castle. 

The Museum traces the history of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders and the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders up to the time of their amalgamation in 1881 when they became the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment and thereafter to the present day.

Displays include pictures, uniforms, weapons, silver, documents, dioramas, colours, pipe banners, medals and militaria.

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Argyll and Bute Council Museum Service HQ

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Outdoor Activity
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Headquarters of the Argyll and Bute Council Museums Service

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Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery

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Cydebank Museum and Art Gallery is situated beside the now demolished John Brown shipyard where many of the famous liners of the Clyde were built. The Museum and Art Gallery showcases an exciting temporary exhibition programme featuring fine art and touring exhibitions and has small permanent displays relating to the shipbuilding industry and the Singer Sewing Machine Collection.

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