Highlights From Museums, Galleries & Archives

Visitors to Angus and residents enjoy a varied programme of temporary and permanent exhibitions, talks and activities in the five museums managed by ANGUSalive.

A well-received programme of fine and contemporary art exhibitions is held at the Meffan Museum & Art Gallery in Forfar, with exhibitions held throughout ANGUSalive gallery spaces. Community art exhibitions also remain popular in our exhibition spaces.

ANGUSalive cares for and manages the museum object-based and fine art collections of Angus Council for the people of Angus. Our museum collections include archaeology, social history artefacts, natural history, geology and ethnography.

ANGUSalive Museums are also a great source of tourist information and we are proud to be part of iKNOW as a VisitScotland information partner, sharing the local amenities and attractions of Angus.

Angus Archives, also managed by ANGUSalive, cares for historical documents which are a primary source material relating to Angus. Located in a rural setting at the Hunter Library, Restenneth by Forfar, Angus, Archives is a treasure trove of 800 years of the history of Angus and its people. Angus Archives collects, preserves and makes available the written and photographic heritage of Angus covering: Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Forfar, Kirriemuir, Montrose, Monifieth and many rural areas of Angus.