Latest Past Events

Refreshing the John Muir Birthplace Exhibition @ 2024 Green Futures Festival

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh

Do you have any ideas about how we can best use the museum to engage with the climate emergency? Join Duncan Smeed and Liz McLean (John Muir Birthplace Trust) for a session on our top floor refresh at John Muir's Birthplace. At the moment the top floor hosts an exhibition about John Muir's legacy. This... Read More

Flax Futures

John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar

Where does flax and linen meet local resilience and climate change? Find out as Journeys in Design co-design their exhibition and events across East Lothian. The flax plant, traditionally processed into linen, has been grown for generations in Scotland. Today, flax plays a part in contemporary moves to support local resilience and tackle climate change. Flax... Read More

Sea Flora

John Muir’s Birthplace 126 High Street, Dunbar

We will be hosting this fantastic exhibition from Sara Dodd until the 30th of July. Open from 10am to 5pm Monday to Saturday and 1pm-5pm on Sundays. Admission is free as always. Sara works with Scottish seaweeds creating original organic pressings and prints that celebrate their intrinsic beauty, colour and light.