Eating and Drinking Puffers Café, Irvine Harbourside Enjoy tea, coffee or lunch and amazing views across the Ayrshire coastline. Open 10:00am – 4:00pm, daily (closed 24th December to 2nd January inclusive)
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Scottish Maritime Museum
The Corner Café, Dumbarton Rest awhile with coffee, tea, lunch or an all day breakfast. Open 10:00am – 4:00pm, Monday to Saturday (closed 24th December to 2nd January inclusive) Shopping Both Museums have well stocked shops with a wide range of maritime themed gifts, souvenirs and books. Events Visit www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org for our up to date programme of lively maritime themed events. Group Visits Attractive discount rates are available for large group bookings. Call 01294 278283 for more information. Education Programme We have a wide range of curriculum-linked learning and sensory activities for pupils of all ages and learning styles. To find out more, email education@scotmaritime.org.uk or call 01294 278283. Venue Hire The glass roofed Victorian Linthouse is a spectacular venue for corporate and private events. If you are looking for ideas, call 01294 278283. Become a Friend If one visit just isn’t enough, become a Friend of the Scottish Maritime Museum and, for a small annual fee, enjoy as many visits to both Museums as you want. We also have a wide range of stimulating volunteering roles on offer throughout the year.
The Harbourside Gottries Road, Irvine KA12 8QE By rail - five minutes walk from Irvine Railway Station Open Daily 10:00am – 5:00pm Admission Children go free (up to three children with an accompanying adult) Adult £7.00 Concessions £5.00 Tour of MV Kyles and 1920s tenement flat included Free parking Telephone 01294 278283 Email visitorservices@scotmaritime.org.uk
The Harbourside, Irvine, North Ayrshire
The Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank Castle Street, Dumbarton G82 1QS By rail - ten minutes walk from Dumbarton Central Railway Station Open Monday – Saturday 10:00am – 4:00pm (closed 24th December to 2nd January inclusive) Admission Children go free (up to three children with an accompanying adult) Adult £3.00 Concessions £2.00 Free parking Telephone 01389 763444 Email denny@scotmaritime.org.uk
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Scottish Maritime Museum
The Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, Dumbarton
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Explore this ‘Cathedral of Engineering’ and see some of Scotland’s oldest and most important historic vessels including Lady Guilford, one of the oldest surviving wooden boats; Carola, a steam yacht built in 1898; and the RNLI lifeboat TGB.
The Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, Dumbarton
Build and test your own model boat or learn to manoeuvre a remote-controlled boat in our indoor boating pond. Discover all about the bold inventors, craftsmen and sailors who designed, built and sailed these vessels across the world.
The Harbourside, Irvine New Commonwealth exhibition launching Summer 2014 Step inside the vast Victorian Linthouse building, listen to the whirring of the machine pits and discover why Scotland’s influence on the maritime history of the world has been so enormous.
Climb aboard the MV Kyles, the oldest Clydebuilt vessel afloat, and tour the Captain’s cabin, crew quarters and the engine room. Get hands on with a range of interactive exhibits. See the country’s largest collection of shipbuilding tools and machinery. Spanning 150 years of shipbuilding in Scotland, it includes some amazing inventions which changed shipbuilding forever. Peek inside the shipyard worker’s tenement flat and get a feel for life during the heyday of Scottish shipbuilding.
Visit the world’s first commercial ship model experiment tank at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Dumbarton. Built in 1882, the vast Denny Tank extends the length of a football pitch and was used for testing ship designs. Watch the ship model carriage running and learn about the world famous Victorian ship designer William Denny. Listen to our new oral history posts telling the story of life at Denny’s shipyard. Step into the Tracer/ Analyst Room to see the equipment they used, how ships were designed and how the test results were used and stored. Try your hand at smoothing and carving a real wax hull model. Test different hull designs in our mini experiment tank with wave making machine. Experience the working environment of the traditional model makers, clay moulders and carpenters in 1882. Discover ship models, photographs and historic objects in the propeller workshop.