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
7 July - 30 September 2008: National Coal Board in West Lothian
An exhibition by the Scottish Mining Museum
Blackridge Community Museum
14 July - 12 September 2008: Threading Together
A display of modern banners designed and produced by Armadale schoolchildren inspired by the friendly society banners in the Museums Service collection.
22 September - 5 December: Levi's Uncut
People from all over West Lothian worked at Levi's in Whitburn for 30 years. This is the story of life on the production line in the workers' own words.
Broxburn Library
8th September - 22nd November: Call to Arms
Recalling the profound affect of the Great War on the people of West Lothian ninety years after the Armistice.
Linlithgow Library
21st July - 27th September 2008:A Century of West Lothian Women
Women's lives in the 20th Century illustrated through photographs and objects.
The display case in Linlithgow will be available for community displays from 20th October until 1st December. 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
Whitburn Library
14 July - 16 September: Banners and Benefits
The colourful story of the Friendly Societies which flourished in West Lothian in the days before National Insurance.
Whitburn Library will be closed for refurbishment from 22 September to 11 October inclusive. An exhibition from the Scottish Mining Museum will be installed as soon as possible thereafter.