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September 2018
Weekend Family Fun – Doors Open Day 2018
Drop in anytime to try our family trail especially put together for Year of Young People and Doors Open Day 2018. Try to find the answers to questions about John's Childhood in Dunbar, as well as finding out about John's own children!
Find out more »October 2018
October Holiday Family Fun – Inventions!
What does John Muir have in common with Wallace and Gromit? They both invented a machine to get them out of bed in the morning! Drop in any time over October half term and explore our temporary exhibition John Muir - An Ingenious Whittler. Have a go at making and designing your own inventions - can you make an early rising machine? What about a clock a table saw or a barometer? These were all ingenious inventions by John. What…
Find out more »Weekend Family Fun – Scootchers and Scary Stories!
Drop in anytime this weekend to find out about the scootchers and scary stories John and his friends would play. Who were the Dandy Doctors? Why was John so scared of them? Once you have explored you can do some Halloween colouring and word searches to take home!
Find out more »November 2018
Weekend Family Fun – Time
Visit our exhibition all about John Muir's inventions, see his clock on display in our permanent gallery and have a go at making your own paper plate clock which will help younger childer learn to tell the time. Decorate in any way you like!
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Visit our exhibition all about John Muir's inventions, see his clock on display in our permanent gallery and have a go at making your own paper plate clock which will help younger childer learn to tell the time. Decorate in any way you like!
Find out more »Weekend Family Fun – Leaf Mobiles
Take some time to celebrate autumn and make this lovely leafy mobile to hang anywhere in the house an easy way to make use of all the leaves lying around right now!
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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 detail in nature that inspired John Muir as a child growing up in Dunbar. Photos of anything from landscapes to macro shots of nature, or…
Find out more »January 2019
Weekend Family Fun – To a Mouse
John Muir was a huge fan of Robert Burns and always carried a book of his poems on his 'saunterings'. 25 January is Burns' Day. Celebrate one of his most famous poems by making your own mouse finger puppet to take away. Impress friends and family by learning some of the lines to the poem while you are here!
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Weekend Family Fun – Calypso Borealis
John was very excited when he found a rare orchid, the Calypso Borealis. Drop in to read John's account of this exciting find and to make your very own rare orchid to take home.
Find out more »Weekend Family Fun – Calypso Borealis
John was very excited when he found a rare orchid, the Calypso Borealis. Drop in to read John's account of this exciting find and to make your very own rare orchid to take home.
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