Linlithgow museum in collaboration with West Lothian Council’s museum service, has launched a new exhibition looking back at life in the town’s schools throughout the 20th century.
The first exhibition the council’s museum service has created for Linlithgow museum is called ‘School Days’ and was created through reminiscence sessions with care home residents.
The museum service spoke with and recorded the older generation in West Lothian care homes - who gladly shared their memories of school, good and bad.
Different items are on exhibition at the museum which will be nostalgic to some and puzzling to others, including a BBC microcomputer and the belt used by teachers to enforce corporal punishment on unruly, or even just chatty, children.
The school days exhibition is the first of Linlithgow museums community exhibition programme and will be open to the public until May this year.
The community exhibition programme puts aside a community space in the museum - allowing different community groups, schools, and care homes to use the space for activities and their own exhibitions.
Linlithgow museum is a volunteer-run charity - being based in their building in the middle of Linlithgow since 2019 and has three main galleries with permanent exhibitions.
Other upcoming exhibitions to the museums community exhibition space include:
An exhibition in summer on the Union Canal from the Linlithgow Union Canal Society celebrating the canal’s 200th anniversary.
An exhibition on James Doohan, the actor that played Scottie from Star Trek - due to be born in Linlithgow two hundred years in the future.
Entry to the Linlithgow museum is entirely free, and is open to the public on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays - those wishing to go are advised to check their website (https://www.linlithgowmuseum.org/) for current opening times.
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