Services
Museums - events and exhibitions
We create temporary exhibitions to give our communities access to a variety of aspects of their history and culture. Our temporary exhibition programme runs at Blackridge , Broxburn and Whitburn Community Museums alongside the permanent displays.
Many exhibitions also tour to Armadale and Linlithgow Libraries when the display cases there are not required for community use.
See below for details of our current programme. You can also download tasters of some of our exhibitions old and new.
Armadale Library
The museum display has been removed to allow dismantling and removal of the display case to the new Armadale Library due to open later this summer.
Opening at the new library in late summer will be two museum displays:
Armadale: History of a Community
A display by the History of Armadale Association with lots of fascinating facts about life, work and leisure in Armadale over the last 200 years and more.
Call to Arms
Another chance to see the popular exhibition about the First World War in West Lothian with additional Armadale material.
Blackridge Community Museum
13th April - 17th July 2010 The Story of Blackridge
Work and leisure in Blackridge featuring old railway images. A new exhibition on old local railways is planned for 2011 to celebrate the re-opening of the Airdrie-Bathgate line. If you have any souvenirs of the days of steam please contact the Museums Development Officer on 01506-776347 or e-mail museums@westlothian.gov.uk
Broxburn Community Museum
To Saturday 14th August West Lothian and the Forgotten War
Memories of the National Service generation and especially of the Korean War, in which 1090 British servicemen died in defence of the principles of the United Nations charter.
Linlithgow Library
The display case in Linlithgow can be made available for community displays. If your group or organisation would like to use it, please contact the Museums Development Officer on 01506-776347 or e-mail museums@westlothian.gov.uk
17th July - 13th November 2010 Girlguiding: 100 years young
Celebrating 100 years of guiding in West Lothian from pioneer days to the present. Find out how much fun Guiding is for its many local members.
Whitburn Community Museum
17th July - 13th November 2010 Jeanie Walker Sampler
See an important part of Whitburn's heritage, which has come home after a tour of East of Scotland museums. Planning is about to begin for a redisplay of Whitburn Community Museum to tell the story of Whitburn in a better way for the 21st century. If you would like to help to contribute to our plans please contact the Museums Development Officer on 01506-776347 or e-mail museums@westlothian.gov.uk
Throughout 2010 Recent Donations
As a first step towards redisplaying the permanent collection at Whitburn Community Museum, see this display of selected recent donations spanning Whitburn's past from prehistory to the 1980s.
