We had a brilliant Jacobite Festival weekend with the Sir Arthur Erskine Regiment from the 22nd to the 24th of August. Guided tours, a fantastic talk on the Taybank Terrace and a reenactment encampment in the park. We can't wait for next year's festival to do it all...

Here we have Ian Shields a member of Sir Arthur Erskine's regiment next to his 1992 painting of the Battle of Dunkeld. The battle of Dunkeld took place on the 21st of August 1689 as part of the Jacobite risings. Ian is in Dunkeld this weekend with the Sir Arthur...

Another heat wave! It has been toasty hot in Dunkeld and Birnam this week (with the exception of a rather large thunder storm - with huge hailstones - on Thursday). The high temperature and humidty has kept us on our toes with our enivronmental controls to ensure the...

This week began with Storm Floris battering the UK and an amber weather warning! We decided to close the archive on Monday due to this to keep our staff, volunteers and visitors safe. This meant that we missed another week of midweek memories! This means we are even...

We have lots of different maps for sale here in the archive, pop in to explore the options. From history to beautiful views there is a variety to suit everyone! The Stanley Hill trail and animated heritage walks were produced by Steven Goodison and Studio Puddock,...

A sneak peek at the glamorous behind the scenes activities of a museum and archive...    INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT!We take daily temperature and humidty readings to check the conditions within the archive and museum, but every 3 months we have to check our blunder...

We started our week with a visit from Heather Doherty from Museums Galleries Scotland. Heather popped up to visit us as she is also part of the Tayside Museum Forum. It was lovely to see her and tell her about what we've been up to! Heather had a look at our case...

Our 17th century soldier guided tours continued this week, next Thursday is your  last chance to take part so don't miss out! The lovely photo above shows  some of our attendees from Thursday's tour.Our next event theme will be the Jacobite era! Join us in Stanley...

This week we have had lots of research requests! We've had a great variety if requests and have had a loevly time helping people research everything from their famiy history to the war memorial in Dunkeld.  We have had a lovely  new aquisition of in depth research...