Museum News

‘Bouncing bombs in Loch Striven – a Cinderella story (with robots)’ Dr Iain Murray (Dundee University) Tuesday's talk was a local as it comes. The bouncing bombs in Loch Striven. This superb talk to a packed museum audience gave  the history of the bouncing bomb...

Malcolm Newdick gave an excellent talk on the results of the DNA testing of the squirrel population on Bute, with 327 samples tested. "Dr Rebecca Synnott joined us by Zoom from Ireland to answer questions at the end of the talk. The results will be published in...

Prof Niamh Nic Daeid (Leverhulme Research Center for Forensic Science, University of Dundee) "Inside Forensic Science" Niamh is Director of the award-winning Leverhulme Research Centre. She was born in Dundee but grew up in Ireland and studied in Dublin before moving...

Scott McFie, University of Glasgow: ‘Fishing on Bute during the age of improvement, 1750-1815’ Following on from his talk last year on the founding of Bute's Agricultural Society, which was attended by half the farmers on the island and 4 past and present presidents...

Prof. Victoria Martin (School of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Edinburgh) "Quarks, leptons, bosons and all that: physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider" Victoria grew up in Kilmarnock and attended the University of Edinburgh where she was a student of Prof Peter...

Despite a very wet night Ron Forrester had lots of moths in the 3 traps, including 3 Poplar Hawkmoths and an Elephant Hawkmoth, as well as 2 Spectacled moths. Our next event in August will be with Lucy Lapwing 

Lucy Lapwing launched her first book today to a packed museum and a sell out of all her copies. The book will be available at the museum shop shortly.

Harriet Tatton, from DigVentures gave a detailed talk on their community involved projects at Dunoon and Glengarnock Castles. A lot of Dig Ventures work is crowd funded, and they are open to suggestions for future projects. Check out their website   ...