Visit the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
An Introductory Guide to the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling.
The Museum is free to visit and provides changing programme of temporary exhibitions on a range of subjects and media, together with lunchtime talks and other events contribute to make the Smith a lively and welcoming visitor attraction.
Other facilities include a café serving lunches and light refreshments, shop, lecture and conference room, and a biodiversity garden. Free admission, car park and access for wheelchair users.
Ailie's Garden at the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
During 2001 and 2002, a major new attraction, initiated and led by the Friends of the Smith, came to take shape around the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. The re-shaping of the grounds reached an important milestone with the opening of Ailie's Garden at the back of the museum. The formal opening, by Robin Harper MSP, took place on Monday 16 September 2002.
The Garden was named after Ailie R Maclaurin (1913-2000) of the Stirling Homesteads, where biodiversity and sustainability were practised in the early twentieth century. Ailie was a great gardener and lifelong Friend of the Smith. Ailie's Garden was created to encourage wildlife, the study of nature, the demonstration of composting and waste management, and to add to the pleasure of visiting the Smith. It has been planned as an outdoor gallery, biodiversity garden, and family activity space.
Stirling Smith Family Fun Day 2012 www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk
A special event on Saturday 19th May 2012 where members of the public were invited to handle ancient objects including the world's oldest football (from 1540), a samurai sword, a pre-Columbian pot, and the Ancient Key to Stirling once gifted to Bonnie Prince Charlie.
4. They are Closing Down ! The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
FutureWorld Stirling 1984
Fronted by journalist and historian Magnus Magnusson (1929 – 2007), this film was launched in July 1984 to promote Stirling District Council’s plans to regenerate the Top of the Town and turn Stirling and Stirling Castle into a tourist destination. Many of the plans came to fruition, but in a different form. Stirling 30 years ago was a very different place.
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The Gallery Guides' Tour of the Stirling Smith
The Smith Gallery Guides are volunteers who are passionate about the Smith and the collections.
They can be booked for educational tours for both adults and children alike.
Join them for a quick tour of the Smith Collections.
Wallace and Bruce at the Stirling Smith
The Stirling Smith is at the heart of the history of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. Here are some pices of the collections that are either on display or currently in storage.
The Shadow in the Gallery, Pre launch Promotion
Looking for the perfect book this winter?
Help us crowdfund our first crime thriller novel set in the early days of the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling.
Written by Thomas A. Christie, ex Smith Administrator, The Shadow in the Gallery takes us on a Victorian themed whodunnit featuring the original curator Alexander Croall.
Crowdfunding page to be launched shortly.
The Enemy Within: The Radical Rising of 1820
The 1820 Radical Rising ended with the beheading of John Baird and Andrew Hardie on 8 September in Broad Street, Stirling. Scottish democracy was born in that bloodbath. Film by W.E.A. Stirling and Alva Films Ltd, 1986.
The Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce Exhibition
7 August - 2 October 2016
See it at the Smith
Top 15 Tourist Attractions in Stirling - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom
Top 15 Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Stirling - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom:
Stirling Castle, Doune Castle, Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park, National Wallace Monument,The Old Town Jail, Deanston Distillery & Visitor Centre, The Battle of Bannockburn Experience, Church of the Holy Rude, Argyll Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum, Argaty Red Kites, Argyll's Lodging, Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Falls of Falloch, Stirling Bridge, Cambuskenneth Abbey
The Battle for Polmaise Exhibition opening day 6/3/2015
BBC Reporting Scotland footage of The Battle for Polmaise Exhibition opening day at The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum 6/3/2015.
The exhibition will run until July 2015.
Polmaise Colliery was Stirlingshire's last working pit and the last village pit in Scotland. Corntonwood is often reputed as being the first Colliery to spark the Miners' Strike in 84, infact it was Polmaise 3&4 in Scotland. First out, last back. No picket lines or scabbing, solid throughout. United we stand.
Oswald Clingan Smith, Head of PRing at the Stirling Smith
Oswald the cat is famous to the visitors of the Stirling Smith, Having decided that there was a job to be done, he moved himself into the Smith in 2004.
Find out more about oswald @smithsupercat on twitter
A Brief Tour of the Stirling Smith in Anaglyphic 3D
Take the Gallery Guides tour in 3D (bring your own glasses)
The World's Oldest Football at the Stirling Smith
The Stirling Smith is home to the oldest recorded football. The story is simple. The ball must have been kicked high, at some time in the 1540s, as it lodged in the rafters of the Queen's Chamber in Stirling Castle prior to the fitting of the ceiling. It was left there, and retrieved only in the enabling works in 1970s, when it was gifted to the Smith. Made of leather and inflated with a pig's bladder, it would not otherwise have survived.
Places to see in ( Stirling - UK )
Places to see in ( Stirling - UK )
Stirling is a city in central Scotland. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its merchants and tradesmen, the bridge and the port. ocated on the River Forth, Stirling is the administrative centre for the Stirling council area, and is traditionally the county town of Stirlingshire. Proverbially it is the strategically important Gateway to the Highlands. It has been said that Stirling, like a huge brooch clasps Highlands and Lowlands together. Similarly he who holds Stirling, holds Scotland is often quoted. Stirling's key position as the lowest bridging point of the River Forth before it broadens towards the Firth of Forth, made it a focal point for travel north or south.
Once the capital of Scotland, Stirling is visually dominated by Stirling Castle. Stirling also has a medieval parish church, the Church of the Holy Rude, where, on 29 July 1567, the infant James VI was anointed King of Scots by the Bishop of Orkney with the service concluding after a sermon by John Knox.[14] The poet King was educated by George Buchanan and grew up in Stirling. He was later also crowned King of England and Ireland on 25 July 1603, bringing closer the countries of the United Kingdom. Modern Stirling is a centre for local government, higher education, tourism, retail, and industry.
Stirling is renowned as the Gateway to the Highlands and is generally regarded as occupying a strategic position at the point where the flatter, largely undulating Scottish Lowlands meet the rugged slopes of the Highlands along the Highland Boundary Fault. Top of the Town consists of Broad Street, Castle Wynd, Ballengeich Pass, Lower Castle Hill Road, Darnley Street, Baker Street ( formerly Baxters St) and St Mary's Wynd. These streets all lead up to Stirling Castle and are the favourite haunt of tourists who stop off at the Old Town Jail, Mar's Wark, Argyll's Lodging and the castle. Ballengeich Pass leads to the graveyard at Ballengeich and the Castle Wynd winds past the old graveyard. The Top of the Town from Broad Street upwards is renowned for its cobblestoned roads, and cars can be heard rattling over the cobblestones on the way down. Craft shops and tourist-focused shops are evident on the way up and once at the top, panoramic views are available across Stirling and beyond. Other Areas of Stirling include :
Abbey Craig
Airthrey
Allan Park
Bannockburn
Borestone
Braehead
Broomridge
Burghmuir
Cambusbarron
Cambuskenneth
Causewayhead
Chartershall
Corn Exchange
Cornton
Coxethill
Craigmill
Craig Leith
Cultenhove
Forthbank
Gillies Hill
Gowan Hill
Hillpark
Kenningknowes
Kildean
King's Park
Laurelhill
Livilands
Loanhead
Mercat Cross
Raploch
Randolphfield
Riverside
Spittal Hill
Springkerse
St. Ninians
Torbrex
Whins of Milton
Viewforth
Alot to see in ( Stirling - UK ) such as :
Wallace Monument
Stirling Castle
Blair Drummond Safari Park
Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
Argyll's Lodging
Church of the Holy Rude
Cambuskenneth Abbey
Macrobert Arts Centre
Falls of Falloch
Abbey Craig
Doune Castle
Stirling Old Town Jail
Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum
Dunblane Cathedral
Mar's Wark
King's Park
The Pineapple
Alloa Tower
Airthrey Castle
Briarlands Farm
Causewayhead Park
Menstrie Castle
Robert the Bruce Statue
Herbertshire Castle
Plean Country Park
Elphinstone Tower, Falkirk
Gillies Hill
Tappoch Broch
( Stirling - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Stirling . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Stirling - UK
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Stirling's Sporting Past, Present, and Future: Stephen Kerr MP
It was a privilege to contribute to the debate on UK Sport, highlighting how much we have to be positive about in Stirling and how we make it happen.
From elite training at University of Stirling to the grassroots sports encouraging everyone to take part, Stirling has a lot to be proud of.
We also have a proud history in sport, in more ways than one! The world's oldest football can be seen at the The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, and more recently we can count Billy Bremner and brothers Gary and Steven Caldwell among the Sons of the Rock.
Williamson Lyncoya Smith Art Gallery Tour
Sue Lang was nice enough to allow us to film her doing a tour of the Williamson Lyncoya Smith Gallery, where she goes in depth on some of California's most prized artists and their paintings.
William Roberts: An Artist's House
A documentary on the house in which the artist William Roberts (1895--1980) lived from 1946 until his death. His wife and son continued to live there until they died, and this film was made after the death of the son, when Roberts's paintings had been removed for safekeeping but the family's other possessions remained in place. Filming and editing by David Cleall. Narration by Pauline Paucker.
Jane Haining - her life story
Jane Haining was a missionary, she worked in the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, where she was arrested by the Nazis in 1944. She died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz later that year.