🏠 Indoor☔ Rainy-day friendlyEducational🆓 Free entry
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Eyemouth Museum occupies the Auld Kirk in the centre of the town and covers the fishing and social history of the Berwickshire coast. The centrepiece is a large embroidered tapestry, made by local women, that commemorates the great fishing disaster of 1881. Nearby, a moving installation of clay figures wrapped in shrouds recalls the men who were lost at sea. A virtual reality tour takes visitors around Eyemouth Fort as it stood in the sixteenth century, which tends to hold the attention of older children. There is a first-floor gallery with changing exhibitions on local themes, a gift shop and a visitor information point. Accompanied children go free, and the museum runs education visits for schools and groups. It suits a rainy afternoon, a history-minded family or a stop on a coastal day out.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Zip-lock bagsThe shell collection, the wet swimming costume, the half-eaten sandwich.
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Sketchbook
- Toilet rollAssume the worst about the facilities and you'll never be wrong.
- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
- Safety pinsStraps break.
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