🌏 For #EarthDay today why not visit Dunblane Museum raised garden illustrating plant use in history, whether for healing, cooking, visual enjoyment or more.
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📅 open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last admission 4pm)
🆓 Free admission - donations invited
#OnThisDay 1918 World War I German fighter ace known as "The Red Baron", Manfred von Richthofen, was shot down & killed. During World War I local fundraising in Dunblane raised money to pay for 4 aeroplanes - so named "Dunblane" "Sheriffmuir" "Lecropt" and "Wharrie Glen"
Today is #VolunteerRecognitionDay so, as Dunblane Museum is entirely run by volunteers, it's a chance to celebrate & thank all who volunteer their time to welcome visitors to Dunblane Museum & carry out multitude of behind scenes tasks making the museum work
Today is #NationalHangingOutDay #HangingOutDay. Bishop's Yard, bleaching or drying green in Dunblane is area of grass beneath former Bishop's Palace by River Allan for inhabitants to use for bleaching their linen
It's #WorldHeritageDay. Dunblane Museum building is museum piece, built 1624 as town house of Dean of Dunblane Cathedral James Pearson
#InternationalDayForMonumentsAndSites
#DayForMonumentsAndSites
#InternationalMonumentsAndSitesDay
#MonumentsAndSitesDay
#HeritageDay
It's #BatAppreciationDay. One of medieval misericords woodcarvings in Dunblane Cathedral, some of oldest medieval woodcarvings in Scotland, features a bat. Here's video letting you hear about Dunblane Cathedral's misericord stalls
▶️ youtu.be/X9evP88GcCs
#OnThisDay 1746 Battle of Culloden was fought between Jacobites and Hanoverian forces commanded by the Duke of Cumberland. Just a months earlier, on 11 Sep 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie, on his way south with his Highland army, spent a night in Dunblane at Balhaldie House
#OnThisDay 1452 Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was born so it’s #WorldArtDay #ArtDay
#ArtHistoryDay. Renowned romantic artist J M W Turner sketched Dunblane Cathedral in 1801 & 1831, with mezzotint engraving in his famed "Liber Studorium" in 1816
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...
It's school holidays, so for activity for your young children pop into Dunblane Museum & search for hand-knitted mice characters around the museum - or there's dressing up costumes, building toys, embossing stamps & more
Open Mon-Sat
10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
Free
It's #ScrabbleDay. Dunblane had Scrabble Club which first met in Dunblane Library, Braeport Centre then Dunblane Cathedral Halls. So here’s Scrabble-inspired image for Dunblane Museum #NationalScrabbleDay
Visit Dunblane Museum
Open Mon-Sat
10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free
It’s #DropEverythingAndReadDay
#DEARDay
#NationalDropEverythingAndReadDay.
For something to read, pop into Dunblane Museum shop - stocks wealth of books related to Dunblane
🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free – donations invited
Visit Dunblane Museum special exhibition for April:
Magic and Mystery - drawings by Diana Hand
🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited
It's #GolfersDay #GolfDay today. Dunblane New Golf Club 18-hole course was designed in 1922, play starting 1923, officially opened 1924. It's 'new' as replaced 9-hole course, at Laighills Park for Dunblane Hydropathic Club opened 2 Apr 1892
#OnThisDay 1937 children’s television programme #BluePeter (world’s longest-running children's TV show) presenter Valerie Singleton was born. She visited Dunblane in 1973, going to Dunblane & St Mary's Primary School, then, with school pupils, planting a tree in Laighhills
Dunblane Museum shop has host of items waiting to tempt you! Jewellery, books (for all ages), toys, souvenirs of Dunblane, scarves, mugs, t-towels, bags & more.
🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited
#OnThisDay 1891 Lego Group founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, was born. Here's #Lego minifigure character in front of Dunblane Museum #Legography
Make a model of Dunblane Museum & share a photograph here
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Today is #TartanDay. Earliest known illustration of Dunblane tartan is in 18th century portrait in Hornby Castle, Yorkshire (copy in Dunblane Museum) of Viscount Dunblane
🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
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For the school holiday, children can complete Dunblane Museum to knitted mice characters trail. There’s also a quiz. Then have a go at the "Find Robert Leighton Quest" which also takes you into Dunblane Cathedral and Dunblane's historic Leighton Library
Visit Dunblane Museum special exhibition for April:
Magic and Mystery - drawings by Diana Hand
🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited
Visit Dunblane Museum special exhibition for April:
Magic and Mystery - drawings by Diana Hand
🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Monday-Saturday
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited
Display in Dunblane Museum about sporting achievements of tennis greats Sir Andy Murray & Jamie Murray OBE, has now been refreshed, with articles kindly provided by Murray family
🚶 Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
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🆓 Free entry
For Easter visit Dunblane Museum shop to buy your own hand-knitted Easter basket or spring chick, both with creme egg included - lovely as gift or treat for yourself
🚶Visit Dunblane Museum
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited
Dunblane Museum opens for 2026 today, Wed 1 Apr 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm), with special exhibition for April:
Magic & Mystery - drawings by Diana Hand
dunblanemuseum.org.uk/news/exhibit...
🗓️ Open Mon-Sat
🕥 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm)
🆓 Free admission – donations invited
It's #CrayonDay today as #OnThisDay 1885 crayon manufacturing company which became Crayola was founded. So here's picture of Dunblane Museum ready to colour #CrayolaCrayonDay #NationalCrayonDay
Dunblane Museum is open from 1 April, Mon-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm (last entry 4pm). Free
25 Mar 1437: Michael Ochiltree Bishop of Dunblane crowns the 7 year old James II as King of #Scots at Holyrood Abbey #otd following the assassination of James I #Scotland
Today is #WorldTuberculosisDay #TuberculosisDay #WorldTbDay #TbDay. Dunblane had a tuberculosis sanatorium/hospital, built 1909-10 at what is now junction of Scott Drive, Wallace Road, & Murdoch Terrace. In use until 1930. In 1934 turned into a youth hostel, demolished in 1950s
It's #WorldMeteorologicalDay #MeteorologicalDay #MeteorologicalDay2026. Dunblane school headteacher Dr Alexander Buchan (1829-1907) was a Scottish meteorologist, oceanographer and botanist credited with establishing the weather map as the basis of modern weather forecasting
It’s #WorldWaterDay. Allan Water is river which runs through Dunblane. Through centuries has been source of power for many mills in Dunblane. In 1600 there were 7 corn mills and 3 waulk mills but by 1800 most of the mills of the area were spinning and weaving yarn and wool
It's #WorldStorytellingDay #StorytellingDay. Celebrated Scottish story-teller Robert Louis Stevenson visited Dunblane's Thomas S Smith at his Glassingall home. His real-life story formed basis for David Balfour & House of Shaws in novel "Kidnapped"
