Info for Researchers
What's it all about?
Future Museum is a partnership between East Ayrshire Leisure Trust, Dumfries and Galloway Council, North Ayrshire Council, South Ayrshire Council and the independent museums of the South-West of Scotland.
The main focus of the website is to provide free access to the museum collections from where ever you may be in the World.
Enquiries
We offer a free enquiry service. If you have an enquiry about any object from the collection, or venue, please use the contact us form, and include as much information as possible. Your enquiry will be sent to the appropriate organisation.
Whilst every effort is made to share our collections with as many people as possible, it may not always be possible to view an item in person. If you wish to view an object then please be aware that procedures around this may differ from organisation to organisation and venue to venue. Please use the contact us form to send in your enquiry and we will help you in any way we can.
Self-led visits and guided tours
Depending on the venue and class sizes we can support either self-led visits. Depending on the venue and class sizes we can support either self-led visits. Depending on the venue and class sizes we can support either self-led visits.
Alternatively we can help arrange guided tours of museums for your class to ensure they get the most from their visit. Alternatively we can help arrange guided tours of museums for your class to ensure they get the most from their visit.
Explore from the classroom
Visit our Interactive exhibit section of the site to bring our Venues and Collections into your classroom.
Eglinton Watercolours
Interactive experience
19th century Europe was a time of surging industrial progress and social reform. The seemingly unstoppable momentum of this change caused many traditionalists to look backwards towards the simplicity and tradition of the middle-ages generating a romantic Victorian fascination with all things medieval and led to the most creative artistic and architectural period of modern times. This Gothic Revival culminated in 1839 with the staging of a full-blown medieval tournament which directed the gaze of the world towards the estate of the 13th Earl of Eglinton in Ayrshire. The event was captured in all its pomp and glory by the artist James Henry Nixon. Explore his work and learn more of the event and its background through this interactive.
South by South West interactive timeline
Interactive experience
South by South West was a large scale exhibition exploring the fine art collections of south-west Scotland and artistic activity associated with the region over 250 years. The South by South West Timeline gives you the opportunity to view many of the works that appeared in the exhibition and to find their place within the story of art in the region.