The Scottish Fisheries Museum invites all children in Fife aged 3 - 14 to take part in its annual Art Competition!

The theme of this year’s competition is Hidden Heritage: On Your Doorstep, which is inspired by our current temporary exhibition Buckhaven’s Hidden Harbour curated by P6 Pupils at Mountfleurie Primary School in Leven.

The Museum Curatorial Team supported the pupils to curate the exhibition about the history of Buckhaven Harbour. What you see in the exhibition are the pupil’s own words, the stories they found interesting, and their choice of objects. The exhibition title is ‘Buckhaven’s Hidden Harbour’ because this local landmark no longer exists. Anyone who looks around the area today would see little evidence that a fishing fleet of 198 boats used to moor there. The exhibition explores this hidden history and is open until Sunday 18th May 2025.

In this year’s Art Competition, pupils are invited to explore the hidden heritage of their doorstep and compare how things used to be with today. We hope pupils will be inspired to create diverse and original artworks in response to the history of their local area.

For information about the competition’s rules and details on how to enter, take a look at our 2025 Information Pack.

If you are searching for ideas, you can look at the accompanying 2025 Inspiration Pack, which contains information about the different themes in the exhibition, inspiration about how to explore your local heritage and arty ideas inspired by this year’s competition theme.

Don’t forget to fill in a Class Coversheet 2025 when submitting work to the museum and to put an Art Work Label 2025 on the back of each artwork.

For some inspiration why not visit Buckhaven’s Hidden Harbour Exhibition which is on display in the Museum until 18th May or borrow our loan box ‘A Fisherman’s Home’ to explore objects you would find in homes in the past.

The competition deadline in Friday 9th May at 5pm.

NEW FOR 2025: Schools of the First, Second and Third Prize winners will receive one free class visit to the Museum in the academic year 2025/2026.

If you have any questions or require any further information about the competition, please contact the museum’s Learning and Engagement Officer on 01333 310628 or by email at julia@scotfishmuseum.org.