Our programme of outreach into the community, coupled with our regular fund-raising events includes:- A celebration of the Auld New Year. This ever popular evening of traditional Scottish entertainment and dancing with supper provided is held in the village hall each January.
- An evening of Highland Family Fun takes place in Blair Atholl Memorial Park each summer. In previous years, this event has featured the local pipe band, Highland dancing, a “haggis house”, face-painting, hay bogey rides, a clown, bouncy castle and car boot sale along with demonstrations such as tweed waulking, wool-spinning, drystane-dyking and sheep-shearing.
- Specialist talks on local history during the winter months.
Please keep checking this web site for further details and dates for our 2012 programme. The Auld New Year celebration will be held on 13th Jan 2012. Festival of Museums
Free Opening
Atholl Country Life Museum are having free admission to everyone on the weekend of 14th May as part of the nationwide Festival of Museums taking place all over Scotland that weekend. In this the Museum’s 30th season a welcome is extended to friends old and new to discover the remarkable story of Donald McBeath whose striking image appears on the Blair Atholl road sign.
Visitors will have the opportunity to view the newly built state of the art artefact storage, built by Kellstone Developers Ltd and part financed by the Scottish Government and the European Community Rural Tayside LEADER 2007 – 2013 Programme, Perth and Kinross Rural Initiative Fund and The Cairngorms National Park Authority.
Also that weekend on Sat 14th May at 2pm at the Museum, the Abertay Historical Society’s new book Ten Taysiders, of which Donald McBeath is one of the ten, will be launched and the Museum’s new display Atholl’s Unsung Hero to commemorate the life of Donald McBeath in the 100th year since his death will be officially opened.
The Museum is offering free admission on Sat 14th, Sun 15th, & Mon 16th May, 1pm till 5pm.
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