PAST EVENTS

Just a little look back at what we've done in the past.....

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"Artist in Print"
Art Exhibition 
15 - 27 September 2020

​The museum presents 3 print makers -
Bryan Angus, Carine Eunson & Kitty Watt.

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AGM

17 September 2020 - 7pm
The 29th Annual General Meeting of the Grantown Museum & Heritage Trust was held on Thursday 17th September 2020 at 7pm, via Zoom. 

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Thursday 5 March 2020
Talk by Jack Harland on his books 
"Highland Journal"
7pm at the museum
Jack's love of hillwalking began with a trip to the North-West Highlands where he and his son, Tom, began to explore the extraordinary mountains of Coigach and Inverpolly. Now this experienced hillwalker and geographer writes Highland Journal, an illustrated memoir looking back on his adventures.

Saturday 15 February 2020
​Talk by Alan Brown on his book 
"Overlander"
7pm at the museum
*Shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year 2019*
Seeking a temporary escape from city life and a world gone mad, Alan Brown plots out a personal challenge: an epic coast-to-coast trip through the wild and lonely interior of the Highlands. 

24 January 2020
Burns Supper
​7pm at the YMCA Community Centre, Grantown 

14 December 2019
Winter Concert
7pm at the museum
Our musical evening will be in 2 halves - firstly Grantown's own string quartet - "Braeriach Quartet "- will play a festive selection, and the second half will feature Paul Anderson on the fiddle and Shona Donaldson singing a selection of traditional Scottish songs.

28 November 2019
Talk by Simon Forder
​"The Romans in Scotland"
7pm at the museum
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8 November 2019
20th Anniversary Party
7pm at the museum
The museum will be celebrating 20 years since we opened in 1999, with a cocktail party featuring live music by Emma & Robin Versteeg.

1 July - 31 Oct 2019
"Canadian Cousins" Exhibition
A captivating insight into the intrepid and pioneering Highlanders who shaped the making of Canada.

11 October 2019
Illustrated Talk by Frank Bardgett
"The Grants of Tulloch"
7pm at the museum 
An examination of the manuscript notebook began in 1872 by William Grant of Chapelton.

1 September 2019
MotorMania
All day on the Square
The museum was present on the Town Square during 
Grantown Motormania 2019

16 June 2019 
Strathspey Open Gardens
Tour of 7 select gardens 
​Lunch at Nethy Community Centre  
Strawberry tea at Grantown Museum 

19 May 2019
Fundraising Walk
Join us for a wander in the Slochd area.    ​

29 April - 15 May 2019
​Jan Holm
Landscape & wildlife photographer
​Exhibit of his latest works - Wilderness Days

30 March 2019
Unveiling of new Richard Waitt portrait

14 March 2019
Merryn Glover
"The Ingredients of a Novel"

11 October 2018
Amanda Thomson
A Scots Dictionery of Nature

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October 2018
Coming Home
Coming Home is a travelling exhibition to commemorate the end of the First World War in the Highlands.

8 November 2018
Peter Crane
​Cairngorms National Park
Talk on Snow Roads scenic route

9 January 2020
"Come in from the Cold"
Talk & Tasting - Caorunn Gin
7pm at the museum
Aleta Shaw, from the distillery, will do a deconstructed nosing and tasting.

9 - 15 December 2019
Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair
Noon - 6pm
Showcasing a select range of arts and crafts, Christmas gifts and decorations, by Scottish artists and crafts people.

16 November 2019
Coffee Morning
10.30am at the museum
Join us for our autumn coffee morning, featuring lots of home baked treats.

13 October 2019
7pm
​Live Music "Nae Plans"
Sell out show including surprise special guests

19 September 2019 
AGM
​7pm at the museum
All members are invited.

22 May - 22 June 2019
Remains of Past Lives
Two artists (Lynn Robinson & Charles Fletcher) explore the abandoned crofts of the Dava. 

24 May 2019
Talk & Book Launch
Robin Crawford will give a talk on his book
"Into the Peatlands"

17 & 18 May 2019
Linen Stories
Friday 17 May - Curators Linen Tales
Saturday 18 May - International Museums Day Exhibition
Talks & workshop

3 April until Easter 2019
Celebrating Strathspey
Grantown Primary pupils produced an exhibition all about their town and its past.

23 March 2019
Coffee Morning
Fund raising event

25 January 2019
Burns Supper
YM Community Centre

13 December 2018
​Bruce Davis
Professor of Engineering, Design and Manufacture
"Christmas - but not as we know it!"

7 January 2019
Louise De Raad
Red Squirrel Conservation

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14 February 2019
Gordon & MacPhail
​Talk by Matthew Garstang & Ewen MacKintosh

October 2018
Jan Holm
Our favourite Scottish landscape and wildlife photographer ​​

May –
September 2018
Strathspey in the
​Great War​

16 September 2018
Fundraising Walk
​Meet at 10.30am at the museum