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Name our Miner!

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Sarah Cowie

Can you help us name our new miner mascot for Prestongrange Museum? Preston the Mole has been with us a for a few years now at Prestongrange, but we need a name for his friend the miner. You can email … Continue reading →

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Arabic Connections Project

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Sarah Cowie

We’ve got an exciting project starting in a few weeks that I thought deserved it’s own blog post to fully explain all the different sections! Ankur Productions got in touch with us last year to see if we fancied hosting … Continue reading →

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Budding Museum Security Guards Take Note!!

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Sarah Cowie

Sometimes classes are really interested to know if anyone ever steals anything from museums. I’m usually able to say, thankfully, no not from our museums. However, this week there have been two big stories about people trying to steal things … Continue reading →

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Answers to Christmas Quiz

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Sarah Cowie

And the answers to the quiz posted on Saturday are: Missing words: boughs, high, crown, come, comfort Problem Solving 50, 23, 33, 52 litres, Drumsticks, pipes and tree! How did you get on?

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Victorians Christmas Quiz!

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Sarah Cowie

Tomorrow (Sunday 27th November), we’re having a special Christmas event at Dunbar Town House. We’re going to have tours of the building, craft activities for children and displays about the history of Dunbar. It’s free and takes place between 3-5pm. … Continue reading →

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Dance Weekend!

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Sarah Cowie

Well, April’s been a short month, hasn’t it?! We have some really exciting events coming up which I think some of you might just be interested in coming along to. Especially if you’ve been looking at the 1960s, World War Two, or … Continue reading →

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Musselburgh Burgh’s Egyptian Open Day

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Sarah Cowie

I visited Musselburgh Burgh’s Egyptian Open Day yesterday. It was fantastic. In the Egyptian Museum, I was able to see pyramids, canopic jars, scarab beetles and lots of mummies! I took along some of my work colleagues from Archives and … Continue reading →

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Visiting Musselburgh Burgh’s Dinosaur Museum

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Sarah Cowie

Iida and I visited Musselburgh Burgh P2′s Dinosaur Museum last week. It was fantastic! On arriving, we were able to find out way to the museum by following all the posters about the Museum. We were greeted by a tour … Continue reading →

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Wallyford and Campie go back in time

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Sarah Cowie

This week I visited Wallyford P6/7 and Campie P5c to start them on the project ‘Musselburgh’s Childhood Role Models. Both classes were visited by their new ‘buddies’ for the project, Mrs Brown at Wallyford and Mr Fairnie at Campie. Campie … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurs and Archaeologists @ Musselburgh Burgh

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Sarah Cowie

Yesterday I visited Primary 2a and 2b at Musselburgh Burgh. The classes are experts on Dinosaurs. We had fun thinking about what we might put in a dinosaur museum. We watched this video about a boy visiting a dinosaur museum in … Continue reading →

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