Museum Diary

Now that we are almost half way through the year, I have been tidying up my photo archives from the past six months, and came across some pics that reminded me of a fantastic ‘kids in museums’ programme I’ve been meaning to tell you about. Or ‘kids in galleries’, to be more accurate. I’ve been a fan of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery for a while now – long time readers may remember it featuring in my ‘Top 5 in Edinburgh’ city guide – but when […]

100 Museums Challenge: Museums No.9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14 What’s better than one Mini Museum Marathon? Two Mini Museums Marathons! Well, at least if you are me. I could have spent the last day in of my long ‘girls only’ weekend away in Scotland sitting in a cafe with a nice cup of tea, reading a book, and watching the world go by. Just enjoying some ‘me time’ away from my three boys. Instead, I chose to work my way down the Royal Mile, taking […]

Oh my, it’s August already! There was no question which city to choose next for a Museum City Guide – August is all about Edinburgh, with its multitude of festivals. And I’ve got something a little extra special to go with it. You may remember, I recently took an online video portrait workshop. Well, I enjoyed it so much, I signed up for another workshop – this time on map making, taught by the lovely Anne Ditmeyer. The result of this course, is a little […]

This time last year I had the idea that, as a challenge for the year, I would try to visit 52 museums in 52 weeks. However, with #MuseumBaby to look after I didn’t know how feasible this project was or whether I’d just end up being one of those mums who visits the National Museum of Scotland every other day because it’s free and it’s raining again outside. Turns out, a bit of both as the case was. But, either way, I didn’t tell anyone […]