Hawick Museum

Description: Museum displaying the manufacturing and domestic life of the area. Local history is well covered. Discover passionate collectors, racing legends, famous painters and local history in a historic house within a beautiful Victorian park.
A lively programme of changing art and museum exhibitions
throughout the year means there is always something new to see.
The Jimmie Guthrie and Steve Hislop Rooms showcase the lives and achievements of Hawick’s two tragic motorcycle champions.
Also - The Old Schoolroom, Nature displays, Archaeology/Geology,
Gift Shop.

Ownership:Scottish Borders Council

Situation – OS ref: NT 494146

How to get there:
By car: Within Hawick. In Wilton Lodge Park , Hawick. Car parking on hand.
By public transport: Regular bus services to Hawick from all Border towns and Carlisle and Edinburgh

Opening dates and Times (2011)
Open all year.
1st Apr – 30th Sept
Mon – Fri 10am – 12pm & 1pm – 5pm, Sat, Sun 2pm – 5pm
1st Oct – Mar 2011
Mon – Fri 12pm – 3pm, Sun 1pm – 3pm
Closed Christmas/ New Year period and Saturdays in winter.

Facilities:

Admission:
Free

Contact:
Tel: 01450 373457

Attached attractions:

Additional info:
VisitScotland 4 star Museum
Disabled access to Ground Floor.

Exhibitions 2011
Sun 23 Jan – Mon 2 May
Scotland Rocks!
Front Hall
A colourful and fun exhibition of fossils, rocks and geology – watch out for the Pterodactyl! Scotland’s geological journey explained – with a look down into
the Earth’s interior. Showing specimens from Scottish Borders Council Museums’ collections. An education project for schools will accompany this exhibition.
To enquire or book a class, telephone 01450 373457.

Sat 19 March – Sun 24 April
Building Scotland
Waterfall Gallery, 1st Floor
Celebrating the raw materials used in Scotland’s traditional buildings with samples of each, including stone, timber, iron, clay and slate together with the tools used to shape them. The photography by a successful young Scottish photographer makes the exhibition as visually impressive as it is informative.

Sat 23 April – Fri 23 December
More Photographs of Old Hawick
Balcony, 1st Floor
Following the success of last year’s show, more prints from Hawick Museum’s collection of glass negative plates – some never seen before – showing people, streets and buildings of the town and the surrounding area going back to the 1880s.

Sat 30 April – Sun 26 June
Four 4 | Patrick & June Rafferty
Waterfall Gallery, 1st Floor
Passionate colour and black-and-white photography documenting 25 years of the live rock music scene. The iconography of rock music is now part of our culture and Patrick and June Rafferty here offer us powerful and engaging images from that scene, featuring performers
and events – both local and from further afield.

Sat 14 May – Sun 24 July
Blown Away | Annica Sandström & David Kaplan
Front Hall
A luminous display of beautiful objets d’art, showcasing Scotland’s premier Studio Glass workshop. The artists have been making glass at Lindean Mill near Selkirk for over 30 years, producing commissions for museums, unique artwork for collectors and tableware for the home.

Sun 3 July – Sun 28 August
Different Perspectives | Win Nichol & Myra Larsen
Waterfall Gallery,
1st Floor
Two artists, close friends, present different interpretations of the wonderful scenery on either side of the Border, each with their own take on the beauty of the area – with some still life works too. Myra paints mainly in watercolour, though likes to experiment, while Win
uses acrylics.

Sun 31 July – Sun 25 September
Plant Magic | Derrick Moore
Front Hall
Engaging, colour photographs of wild flowers and plants found within a few miles of Hawick showing the terrain they grow in - with fascinating facts about their traditional uses and the folklore associated with them.
Summer Holiday workshops will accompany this exhibition.
To enquire telephone Hawick Museum 01450 373457.

Sun 4 September – Sun 23 October
The Borders and Beyond | Sandy Jarvis
Waterfall Gallery,
1st Floor
A selection of landscape paintings, mainly in oil, of the artist’s recent work in the Borders area and beyond. As a keen walker, Sandy is always aware of the changing patterns of the countryside and tries to capture this in his paintings.

Sun 30 October – Fri 23 December
Art Exhibition for Vision 2014
Waterfall Gallery,
1st Floor
A selection of paintings and works of art with local provenance, from Hawick Museum’s permanent collection, on show for the Year of Arts, part of Vision 2014, Hawick Learning Community’s four-year project to inspire young people to be proud of, and work towards, excellence in their community.

Sun 2 October – Fri 23 December
A Hundred Years of Hawick Opera
Front Hall
For one hundred years Hawick’s Operatic Society has delighted the town with its productions. This exhibition tells the story of Hawick Opera with a display of photographs, costumes and memorabilia.

Web link:
http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/outabout/visit/museums/3243.html

Places to stay nearby:
Hawick

Local towns and villages:
Hawick