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Modern boatbuilding techniques ensure that the last of the great first-class scottish herring luggers will sail again.

We have a rare opportunity to join us as part of the Go Industrial team!

The Scottish Fisheries Museum has won a prestigious Engaging People Award from the Association for Heritage Interpretation (AHI) for engaging communities during Lockdown through Knitting the Herring - Scotland’s National Gansey Project.

The Scottish Fisheries Museum was delighted to welcome HRH The Princess Royal for a private visit on Friday 15 October.

The Scottish Fisheries Museum has been gifted an historic and poignant wooden Barometer presented to a fisherman who lost three sons in the Eyemouth Fishing Disaster which took 189 lives 140 years ago, on 14 October 1881.

Scottish Fisheries Museum to be partners in a nationwide project to address skills gap and ensure future for nationally significant heritage collections launched by Industrial Museums Scotland

The Scottish Fisheries Museum is delighted that Knitting the Herring is one of the finalists shortlisted in the prestigious Engaging People Awards 2021.

Led by local, published author Geoff Barker, the Reading Round is a reading group with a difference.

We need your help to tell the story of this rare survivor from the heyday of fishing.

At a critical time for public engagement in museums we have vacancies for two new members to join our staff team to combine the highlights of our past practices with the best of our new thinking into digital connection, community engagement and outreach.