PAST EVENTS

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

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Jan Holm ​

25 May - 13 June 2022
Our favourite photographer returns for his latest exhibition of photographs featuring the Scottish landscape, wildlife and coastline. 
​Jan is based in the Highlands of Scotland and combines his passion of wilderness places and walking to produce creative images of the diverse landscape and nature of our beautiful country.

Searching for the Countess

1 April - 23 May 2022
An exhibition on the life and times of the Countess of Seafield, Caroline Stuart. Following the tragic death of her son Ian Charles in 1884, Caroline finds herself left with the responsibility of running the vast Seafield and Strathspey estates. Her story reveals a woman of fortitude in the thick of a family saga.

Sarah McQuaid
​Friday 13 May 2022

Folk Concert - 7pm
​Doors 6.30pm - Tickets £12
The museum is proud to present the folk singer and songwriter Sarah McQuaid. Her award-winning musicianship, distinctive chocolatey vocals and mastery of the songwriting craft have led reviewers to describe Sarah McQuaid as a “triple threat”. Add to that a warm, charismatic stage presence, six critically acclaimed solo albums and a battery of instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, drum and piano — and you’ve got a one-woman powerhouse who defies categorisation because there simply isn’t anyone else out there quite like her. Not to be missed!

Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair
​27 November - 5 December 2021
10am - 5pm

Join us again for our ever popular arts and crafts fair featuring Scottish artists and unique gifts.
​Now expanded to cover 2 weekends.

Searching for the Countess
​25 August - 21 November 2021

An exhibition on the life and times of the Countess of Seafield, Caroline Stuart. Following the tragic death of her son Ian Charles in 1884, Caroline finds herself left with the responsibility of running the vast Seafield and Strathspey estates. Her story reveals a woman of fortitude in the thick of a family saga.

Car Boot Sale & Market
​Saturday, 23rd October 2021
​10am - 4pm
​We will be holding a car boot sale and market to raise funds for the museum at the Grantown Showground on 23rd October.
​Clear out your cupboards and make space in your garage. This is your chance to make £££££ from your clutter!

Buyers admitted from 10am.
​Free entry and parking.

Set up for sellers we be from 9am:
Cars £10
Vans or cars w/trailers £15.

Thank you to Grantown Showground Committee, John Kirk, Walkers Shortbread and Heilan Loos for their support.

Adventures in Costume
1 - 23 August 2021
Experience life in the Past - 
​Grown Up Dressing Up

Grantown Museum presents costumes from its unique dressing up experience.  On display will be over 20 exquisite, handmade replica costumes in sumptuous fabrics. 
If you would like to try on any of the costumes, book an hour in the museum or an afternoon 'on location'​  with our expert dresser who will take you on an adventure through time. Take home a video and souvenir photographs and feel what it was like to be dressed in the finery of the day.

Time out of Time
2 - 7 August 2021

Story-making, play and workshops for children 6-12 years, featuring the "Countess of Grand Town".

Jan Holm Exhibition
19 - 31 July 2021

Our favourite photographer returns for his latest exhibition of photographs featuring the Scottish landscape, wildlife and coastline. 
​Jan is based in the Highlands of Scotland and combines his passion of wilderness places and walking to produce creative images of the diverse landscape and nature of our beautiful country.
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DRAWN FROM THE PAST
​VOICES FROM DAVA MOOR
22 May - 17 July 2021

New research reveals a grim story of a failed experiment with tragic results.
Grantown museum’s latest exhibition shines light on the dark past of Dava moor where enlightened thinking led to misery, evictions and murder….
Combining art, sound, poetry and historical research it tells the story of the mostly abandoned crofts that lie dotted on the landscape of the wild stretch of moorland between Grantown and Forres. The exhibit accompanies a new book written by historian Charles Fletcher who has found evidence of an ambitious agricultural experiment carried out by the Laird of the Grant estates, Sir James Grant, founder of Grantown, which was doomed to failure and led to the eventual evictions of many families in Strathspey.  
The show also features fascinating sound recordings of memories from the people who have lived on the Dava, many of whom were the last tenants of the small farms that can be seen today. They tell of happier times in the middle of the last century,  scraping a living from the unyielding land but managing to create long lasting friendships within a tight knit community.

Adventures in Costume
1 - 15 May 2021
Grantown Museum presents an exhibition of its' collection of reproduction costumes covering the period from the 1750's to the 1920's. Most costumes are recreations of, or inspired by, period costumes seen on TV and in film - Outlander, Downton Abbey, Pride & Prejudice, Young Victoria, The Duchess, Marie Antoinette.
We even have a reproduction of the Isabella MacTavish Fraser wedding gown held by Inverness Museum - except ours is made up in Clan Grant tartan (of course!)
There are 20 costumes in all, which have been made in silk, wool, linen & cotton - in creating the costumes we have tried to be as authentic as possible (except for boning - we used modern polyester, not whalebone).
You can even try on the costumes - grown up dressing up!
Checkout our Adventures in Costume page.

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30 November - 6 December 2020
Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair
10am - 5pm
Showcasing a select range of arts and crafts, Christmas gifts and decorations, by Scottish artists and crafts people. We will be presenting new artists and crafters this year, in addition to returning favourites from last year. Part of "Grantown Does Christmas" shopping weekend.

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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