Museum

Find out more about rural Lanarkshire by clicking on the different Museum wings below.

Robert Owen's Windows of Learning

Robert Owen's principles of education immortalised in stained glass

 

Treasured Remains - Historic Kirkyards

The historic kirkyards of the Clyde and Avon Valley

 

Local Landscape Heroes Digital Art Trail

Exploring the landscape through paintings

 

The Avon Weirs

Remnants of the river's industrial heritage

 

The Brick and Tile works of the Clyde and Avon ...

Assembled from the Landscape

 

Bonnington Pavilion, the 'Hall of Mirrors'

A view of Corra Linn, with a difference

 

Tourism and Art in the Clyde & Avon Valley

The inspiration for artists and travellers

 

Shaping the Landscape: Thank the Rocks for the Trains

How geology led to the first local train lines

 

The valley of the glasshouses

From Hot Houses to Garden Centres

 

The Orchards of Lanark So Fair

An archaeology of fruit

 

Shaping the Landscape: Chatelherault and the Avon Gorge

A quintessential part of the area's mining history

 

Trig Points: The Basis for Modern Mapping

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

Mapping as Art: Alasdair Gray's Falls of Clyde Mural

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

Black Hill: More than just a Viewpoint

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

Make Your Way: Journey Boxes, Stonehouse

Kate McAllan and Martyn McKenzie - artist residency

 

Glorious Gardens: Jerviswood

A beautiful and productive landscape on the outskirts of Lanark

 

Glorious Gardens: Cambusnethan

A disappearing treasure of the Clyde Valley

 

Tasting Through Time historic cook book

Historic apple, plum and pear recipes

 

Apple Day album

Clyde and Avon Valley fruit heritage turned into song

 

Shaping the Landscape: Sampson's Slingstane and Fiddler Burn

A mysterious boulder perched on a steep sandstone cliff

 

Shaping the Landscape: Black Hill and Stonebyres Quarry

Hill formed from cooling magma providing great geological look out

 

Place Names: Dalserf & Nemphlar

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

Cleghorn Roman Camp

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

Modern Mapping: Born in the Clyde and Avon Valley

William Roy

 

Glorious Gardens: Harperfield

A country house - with lions

 

Jookers Johnnie, Lanark

What's in a name?

 

Glorious Gardens: Baronald House

The Echo in the Crags and the Botanist

 

Forests of the Valleys

Trees have a big part to play in the Clyde ...

 

Clyde Valley Orchards mapped on the National Inventory of Orchards ...

A report on the contents and condition

 

Cyanotype Photography

A how to guide

 

Jacob's Ladder

A steep descent to the pits

 

Guide to Re-Photography

Exploring our Landscape

 

Shaping the Landscape: Stonebyres Falls

Giant rock steps over which the Clyde tumbles

 

Shaping the Landscape: The Falls of Clyde

Dramatic falls show the power of ancient glaciers

 

Shaping the Landscape: RSPB Scotland Baron's Haugh

Created by mining subsidence, now a haven for wildlife

 

Milton Head: the Birthplace of Modern Mapping

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

Shaping the Landscape: Lower Nethan Gorge

Ancient river deltas and swampy forests

 

Dundaff Linn inspires budding artists

11 artists follow in the footsteps of master painters

 

Glorious Gardens: The Kerse

Still a pleasure walk today

 

The industrial valleys

Industry in the Clyde and Avon Valleys

 

North Lodge Bridge, New Lanark

A gateway between ways of life

 

Shaping the Landscape: Morgan Glen & Millheugh to Fairholm

Subtle valleys exposing the stone through which the river cuts

 

From Sheep to Shawl textile and dying manual

A Guide to the Textile Heritage of the Clyde Valley

 

Crop Marks at Draffan: Aerial Archaeology - Mapping from the ...

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

Designing the Landscape: Chatelherault

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

MapCRAFT

Expressive Mapping in the Clyde and Avon Valley

 

Glorious Gardens Conservation Strategy

Conservation Strategy and Landowner Guidance Notes for Designed Landscapes

 

Investigating the Past at Castle Qua and Black Hill

Investigating the Iron Age landscape of the Clyde and Avon ...

 

Getting Around

A Brief History of Transport in the Clyde and Avon ...

 

The history of Alexander Hamilton Memorial Park, Stonehouse

Past, Present & Future

 

Shaping the Landscape: Cartland Craigs & Cleghorn Glen

A deep gorge, a castle and the highest bridge in ...

 

Glorious Gardens: Mauldslie Castle

One of the Valleys' grandest old estates

 

Shaping the Landscape: Clyde Walkway - Garrion Burn to Mauldslie ...

A gentle, meandering Clyde

 

Shaping the Landscape: The Nemphlar Channel

An ancient dry valley formed during the last ice age

 

Shaping the Landscape: Threepwood Quarry

Stoop and room workings to extract high quality sandstone

 

Collieries: Mapping Underground

Part of the Mapping the Past trail

 

The BIG MAP

Collaborative Mapping in the Clyde and Avon Valley

 

Carluke Young Gallery Creepy Crawlies Exhibition

School children connect with local landscape through art

 

Make Your Way - Cycle Chatelherault!

Getting to know Chatelherault on paper, on screen and on ...

 

Make Your Way to Chatelherault - From Quarter with Walking ...

Walking sticks, 'Salmons of Knowledge' and more, with Nadia Rossi.

 

Make Your Way to Chatelherault - Fabric of the Land

With the Blantyre Cubs, Jenny O'Boyle explored the Millheugh route ...

 

Make Your Way to Chatelherault - Symphony for the Land

Wandering the Fairholm Route down to the Green Bridge with ...

 

Make Your Way to Chatelherault - Arboreal Exploring

Taking in the landscape to the north of Chatelherault Country ...

 

Make Your Way Recipe for 'Sunshine Tea'

MYW Artist, Rachel Walker, shares a recipe for 'Sunshine Tea'.

 

Land, Life, Water Exhibition

An exhibition of the Clyde and Avon Valley Past and ...

 

Shaping the Landscape Exhibition, New Lanark

Explore the new Clyde and Avon Valleys geology exhibition

 

Fruits of their labours album and oral histories

Lanarkshire Songwriters celebrate the forgotten men and women of the ...

 

Glorious Gardens: Waygateshaw House

Growing up in the Clyde Valley

 

Glorious Gardens: Carfin and Crossford Park

Clyde Valley connections with Portugal

 

Glorious Gardens: Milton Lockhart

From the Clyde valley to Japan via Russia!

 

Glorious Gardens: Dalserf

Hamiltons in the Clyde and Avon Valley

 

Local Landscape Heroes: The Quarries that built Hamilton Palace

Quarrying the archives

 

Chatelherault Hunting Lodge

Leopards and hounds at a grand folly

 

Investigating the Past

A Pop-up Exhibition in Lanark Library

 

Make Your Way: Landscapes of Love and Worship, Glassford

Ewan Allinson - artist residency

 

Make Your Way: Brick Making, Carluke

Kevin Morris - artist residency

 

Make Your Way: The elephant in the close, Lanark

Daniele Sambo - artist residency

 

Make Your Way: Memories of the textile trade, Larkhall

Allison Smith - artist residency

 

Glorious Gardens: Stonebyres Castle and Estate

Not all gone

 

Glorious Gardens: Cleghorn Estate

A landscape of magnificent trees

 

Local Landscape Heroes: Hamilton Natural History Society

Bill and Audrey Wallace

 

Making a Medieval Tile

Celebrating the Brick and Tile Industry of the Clyde and ...

 

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