Bell-Pettigrew Museum of Natural History

Dr Martin Milner

Info Telefon: 01334 462417
Besucher-Email: mjm5@st-andrews.ac.uk
http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/bellpet/...

Today the museum is used by undergraduate students, visiting school parties, as a venue for School of Biology receptions and is on open to the general public on Tuesday and Friday afternoons in the summer vacation – early June until mid September. The museum is also open on a Saturday as part of National Science Week in the Spring, and on a Sunday in September as part of Doors Open.

The Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History was founded, and most specimens acquired, during the heyday of the Victorian age, when collecting was all the rage. Most towns and cities had a museum similar to this one, with many specimens displayed in a relatively small space. Although this Museum has been altered and updated on occasion, it retains its original feel - the entire museum, with its original cases, and superb mosaic floor, is a valuable survivor from a bygone age.

The core purpose of today’s museum is to allow the evolutionary and taxonomic relationships between the animals to be clearly understood in the light of the characteristics defining each phylum. We aim to explain this to different groups of visitors ranging from primary schools to Zoology undergraduates. Other themes include biodiversity, the history of biology at St. Andrews and the interaction between art and science.

Foto: “King of Hering” or Banks’ Oarfish (Regalecus banksii), found (and eaten exempt the head) in 1944.
 

British Golf Museum

Fax.: 01334 460064

Info Telefon: 01334 460046
Besucher-Email: aurierae@randa.org
http://www.britishgolfmuseum.co.uk...

January - March
Open 7 days 10am to 4pm 
April - October
Monday to Saturday 9.30am - 5.00pm
Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm 
November-December
Open 7 days 10am to 4pm 

Last entry to the museum is 45 minutes before closing.

Buckhaven Museum and Library

Info Telefon: 01592 583213
Besucher-Email: kirkcaldy.museum@fife.gov.uk
http://www.fifedirect.org/museums...

Burntisland Museum and Library

Info Telefon: 01592 583213
Besucher-Email: kirkcaldy.museum@fife.gov.uk
http://www.fifedirect.org/museums...

Crail Museum and Heritage Centre

Info Telefon: 01333 450869
Besucher-Email: crailmuseumtrust@tiscali.co.uk
http://www.crailmuseum.org.uk...

Culross Palace Townhouse and Study (ex: Culross Palace and House)

Fax.: 0844 493 2190

Info Telefon: 0844 493 2189
Besucher-Email: information@nts.org.uk

National Trust for Scotland

Garden: all year, daily 10-6 or dusk if earlier.

Palace, Study and Town House: 
1 Apr to 31 May, Thur-Mon 12-5 
1 Jun to 30 Aug, daily 12-5 
1 Sep to 30 Sep, Thur-Mon 12-5 
1 Oct to 31 Oct, Fri-Mon 12-4 h.

ATTENTION: Access to the Study and Town House is by guided tour only. Tours depart from palace reception every hour. First tour departs 1pm, last tour departs 4pm (3pm in October). Tours last approx 1 hour.

Relive the domestic life of the 16th and 17th centuries at this riverside Royal Burgh. The old buildings and cobbled streets create a fascinating time warp for visitors. Close your eyes and you can almost hear the calls of medieval street vendors selling their wares and the clang of hammers on metal as the Hammermen of Culross fashioned the famous girdles.

Explore the beautiful refurbished Palace which dates from 1597 - imagine what it would have been like to live within the splendid interiors, featuring painted woodwork, and 17th- and 18th-century furniture. Take a wander around the reconstructed early 17th-century palace garden, perhaps meeting the Scots Dumpy hens who supply eggs for the Bessie Bar tearoom.
 

Fife Folk Museum

Info Telefon: 01334 828180
Besucher-Email: curator@fifefolkmuseum.org
http://www.fifefolkmuseum.org...

Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery

Info Telefon: 01592 583213
Besucher-Email: kirkcaldy.museum@fife.gov.uk

Please note:  Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery will be closed from 3rd December until Spring 2013 to undergo a major refurbishment.

Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, set in the grounds of the town's War Memorial Gardens, houses a collection of fine and decorative arts of local and national importance. The museum owns what is probably the largest public collection of the works of William McTaggart and Scottish Colourist S.J. Peploe outside the National Galleries of Scotland. The collection also includes a significant number of works by the Glasgow.
The ground floor features an award winning permanent local history display. A lively, changing exhibition programme of art, craft, history and photography runs throughout the year.

As well as providing excellent coffee and an attractive selection of homebaking the popular museum café features a fine display of Wemyss Ware pottery, the colourful local ceramic ware which was formerly produced in the town.
 

Laing Museum

Fax.: 01337 412710

Info Telefon: 01334 659238
Besucher-Email: museums.east@fife.gov.uk
http://www.fifedirect.org/museums...

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY BY APPOINTMENT. From 1/10/11 access will be by appointment only and 'Open Days' will be advertised during the year.

Situated in the High Street, the building was gifted to the town by local historian and benefactor, Alexander Laing. The permanent gallery has a re-creation of Laing's study and on display are some of the unusual objects he collected as well as other objects from the Museum's collections. Antiquarian and reference books from Laing's own collection are also held in this Museum.
 

Lower Methil Heritage Centre