Backyard BioBlitz: Wildlife Survey

By the Seaside is teaming up with the University of St Andrews’ Backyard BioBlitz: WIldlife Survey to provide a fun, family-friendly weekend activity.

Backyard Bioblitz is an online wildlife survey you can do from home. Take pictures of any and all animals, insects, or creatures you spot by the ocean and submit it to the BioBlitz team! Follow @backyardbioblitz on Facebook and Instagram and @BBioblitz on Twitter for more information.

Click this link to connect with their event page: https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/backyard-bioblitz-2/

To support our summer exhibition By the Seaside, we are inviting members of the public to submit works to our annual Art Competition.

Usually open only to schoolchildren in Fife, we are opening up the competition this year to members of the public. We are also accepting written poetry or prose submissions too - so, whoever you are and however the sea inspires you, you can take part!

If you would like to submit an entry, please see the full details at the Art Competition webpage.

Submissions from the public will not be entered into the schools competition but will be considered for exhibtion, both onsite in the museum and online.

So, if the sea is your muse, please get creative and share the results with us!

The role the sea plays in emotional, mental and physical well-being.

Yolande Kenny captures life in the villages and natural world of the East Neuk

A study in photography and film into the social world of Hull’s fishing community by Simon Sharp

We are really happy to welcome back retired Anster fisherman-turned-painter Arthur Nuttall to our Merchant’s Room this September.

Merchant’s Room display exploring some of these longstanding practices and beliefs.

A new selection of photographic scenes from two of our regular exhibitors

The history, uses, creativity and traditions held within fisherman’s ganseys and incorporating SHOAL, an artwork created by knitters from across Scotland and beyond.

El Niño and Abundance in a Peruvian Fishing Community

Caring for the World We Love

Photographs of Anstruther’s Past exploring change and memory.