Exhibition
An Ingenious Whittler – John Muir The Inventor
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomOur ever-popular temporary exhibition returns celebrating the amazing machines that John Muir invented to make life easier. His designs included clocks and barometers to plans for study desks and 'early rising machines'. Sit on the loafer's chair for a noisy surprise or draw up a blueprint for your own invention!
Inspired by John Muir
This wonderful selection of photos are the winning entries of a joint competition run by John Muir’s Birthplace and the Facebook group Dunbar in Pictures. The photography competition was open to all photographers, professional and amateur alike. The brief encouraged photographers to take time to look at the landscapes around Dunbar and the fine... Read More
New Exhibition – ‘Flora’ by Cathy Bell
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomLook out for our exciting first exhibition of 2019. From 5 January until 16 February, we are proud to host artist Cathy Bell's solo show, 'flora'. In her exhibition of artwork and photography Cathy Bell is concerned with capturing a personal connection with the natural world of "flora". For paintings she has chosen to depict... Read More
‘Silva’ by Chris Thomas
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomWe are delighted to present ‘Silva: a meditation on trees and woods in eleven photographs’ by photographer Chris Thomas. 20th February – 24th March. Humankind has had an intimate relationship with trees and woodland since the days of our earliest ancestors – on the one hand, practical and prosaic, on another, a deeply-felt sense of... Read More
John Muir in the French Pyrenees
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomA powerpoint exhibition about John Muir and the origin of the first American National Parks in the French Pyrenees! The panels of this exhibition were done last school year by nine sixteen-year-old pupils from Jean Dupuy High School in Tarbes with the help of a history and geography teacher and myself. Tarbes is situated in... Read More
John Muir, Writer
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomIn 2014 Dunbar-born John Muir, botanist, geologist, explorer, mountaineer and conservationist, became the 38th Scot to be commemorated in Writers’ Court in Edinburgh. His flagstone carries the words: “I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.” Muir was convinced that only then would folk protect the environment. Muir sought to... Read More
Exhibition: Faces of Dunbar
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomAn exhibition by local photographer, Fraser Stewart. This exhibition is a range of my photographic work of the many facets of Dunbar. It is a study of the diverse communities within a small coastal town. Dunbar is surrounded by beautiful nature and is a joy to explore and live in. Yet it is the people... Read More
Exhibition: Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomOnce again we are delighted to be presenting John Muir Trust category winners from the Scottish Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. This will be the 3rd year we have exhibited winners from this category, and the images are always breath-taking. this year the John Muir Trust prize was given the theme of 'Living Landscape',... Read More
Winners: Dunbar 2020 Calendar Competition
We are delighted to bring you an exhibition of all the winning entries from our Dunbar 2020 Calendar Competition over the festive period. We have 12 beautiful images entered to our Facebook Competition and voted for by our online visitors. This exhibition was open to everyone to post favourite photos they had taken of Dunbar,... Read More
Exhibition: My Boyhood and Youth
John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar , East Lothian, United KingdomWe are offering another chance to see our exhibition My Boyhood and Youth, opening Wed 29 January and kicking off our #YCW2020 activities. Find out what life was like for John growing up in Dunbar in the mid 1800s. How did exploring the surrounding area, including the seashore, influence his later life? Open until 23... Read More
