Perth Museum & Art Gallery
Museum Collections are large and varied. They have been officially designated as a Recognised Collection of National Significance to Scotland. They cover History, Natural History and Art and include local and foreign material.
Exhibitions and Events. Museum permanent displays explore the artistic, social and natural history of Perth & Kinross district.
Regularly changing exhibitions cater for all tastes and age groups.
Activities and Events are scheduled through the year.
Schools and Community: The Museum & Art Gallery provide talks and demonstrations on a variety of subjects for schools, groups and clubs. Also welcome welcomed from students and visitors of all ages.
For over 800 years silver has been worked Perth.
This story looks at the makers and their produce over the centuries. Skills of the silversmith such as shaping, decoration, assaying (testing) and hallmarking are explained.
Important historic pieces such as the Silver Ball of Rattray; a sporting trophy to encourage archery, feature.
The church was a prominent customer for silver with commissions for ceremonial cups, chalices and host dishes.
Even everyday domestic life, forks to funnels and spoons to spectacles were fashioned in silver.
Trowels, spades, caskets and keys are the type of item needed for presentation and ceremony. These include the Ceremonial Keys to the City of Perth. These were presented to Queen Victoria on her first state visit to Scotland in 1842.
Furniture and Faces
Fine antique furniture and clocks, oriental ceramics and sculpture against a backdrop of portraits of Perthshire people. A selection from the applied art collections combined with portraits by Thomas Duncan, Philip de Laszlo and Alexander Stuart Hill. Sculpture includes bronzes by Alastair Ross, Benno Schotz and George W A Kinloch-Smyth, a pupil of Rodin's, and a large marble urn originally made for the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Empress Josephine which was subsequently acquired as part of the collection of Francis, 14th Lord Gray of Kinfauns Castle.
Wild and Wonderful Perthshire
From the beginning of the solar system, through millions of years of geological time to the present day landscape . . .
What, how and why it took so long to create the Perthshire we know today.
How did heat, pressure and the Ice Age shaped our landscape?
Encounter rocks, fossils and minerals, plants and animals and Perthshire's link with space; the meteorite that crashed into Strathmore in 1917.
Discover the beavers, bears, wolves and aurochs which once roamed the great Caledonian Forest
Explore the wildlife of the hills and mountains.
Spot a golden eagle and a Scottish wildcat.
Pause to see ospreys and the wildlife of rivers, lochs and bogs.
At the new woodland display you can see and listen to red squirrel and capercaillie.
See up close the more familiar are the animals of towns and farmland.
VSITIROS INFORMATION:
Opening Hours and Access
All year opening: We are open Monday - Saturday 10am - 5 pm apart from Christmas and New Year holidays
Sunday opening: Between the 4th May - 31st August we are open from 1 - 4.30pm
ENTRY to Perth Museum & Art Gallery is FREE
Parking: Pay & display, disabled, multi-storey and on-street parking nearby.
Baby changing facilities are sited in both male and female toilets.
For visitors with a disability our facilities include steps, ramped and lift access into the building. Inside, most areas are on one level with fully accessible toilets and free use of a wheelchair during your visit if required.
Perth Museum and Art Gallery can be found at the north end of Perth town centre in George Street. Near the Old Perth Bridge over the River Tay and beside Perth Concert Hall. 3 minutes walk from Perth High Street.
Pay and display short term street parking is available near to the building.
Bike friendly with a bicycle shelter to the rear of the building.
Is in the centre of Scotland within 90 miles and 90 minutes of 90% of Scotland's population.
Less than five minutes walk from bus stops in George Street, Kinnoull Street and Charlotte Street.
A five minute walk from Kinnoull Street multi-storey car park and a ten minute walk from Canal Street multi-storey car park.
About 20 minutes walk from Perth bus station and Perth Railway station in Leonard Street.
About 3 miles from the Park and Ride facilities at Broxden to the west and at nearby Scone to the east.
About 30 minutes drive away from Dundee City Airport.
One hours drive from Edinburgh International Airport.
Two hours drive from Glasgow International Airport.
Three hours drive from Prestwick International Airport and Aberdeen Dyce Airport.
Address:
Perth Museum & Art Gallery
George Street
Perth
PH1 5LB