About

St Andrews Museum is a stunning Victorian mansion nestled in the grounds of Kinburn Park. Visitors can expect a lively series of FREE temporary exhibitions and a regular programme of talks and children’s workshops.  

Great news – our beautiful cafe is open again! And we’d like to give a big St Andrews Museum welcome to our new partner, Michelle Caulfield and her team from The St Andrews Cake Co.  

A-Z Exhibition

More than 70 artefacts feature in our ‘A-Z’ display that highlights an object of local interest for each letter of the alphabet. Among the objects on show are a hoard of medieval coins found in St Andrews and a magnificent embroidered banner created in 1823 for the Thistle and Rose Lodge of the Free Gardeners Society, St Andrews. Other exhibits include a St Andrews board game featuring well-known businesses from 2002, and a beer bottle designed by local artist Susan McGill for the first beer brewed in town for more than 100 years by the St Andrews Brewing Company in 2014. There is also a new display of precious mementoes linked to the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade, formed in Fife during the Second World War.

Exhibitions

Come and visit our latest FREE exhibition Unveiling the Madonna (until 8 March 2026)

Discover the story behind the Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, the oldest painting in our art collection.

The painting was for many years held in Anstruther Town Hall, before becoming part of our collection in the 1980s, but sadly not much was known about it.

Find out the facts uncovered through research and conservation which led to the attribution and dating of the painting to an artist from 1520s Florence, during the Italian Renaissance.
The exhibition unveils the secrets of this fascinating painting, discovered during and after its conservation in 2019-2022.

Also on display are three beautiful and rare books dating from the early 16th century from our George Reid Collection. Donated to Dunfermline Carnegie Library, these Books of Hours have never been seen in St Andrews Museum before.

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