Museum blog

In this blog we look at the role and experiences of Royal Navy chaplains and what their accounts can tell us about shipboard life.

Our archives hold a small collection of papers related to David Lawson, master of a cargo steamer that disappeared in 1905 after leaving the coast of America to return to Europe. They offer clues on what became of SS Freshfield on its journey home.

Discover what to see in February's night sky including a planetary parade, shining Saturn and Venus, and a host of deep sky objects in Orion

Start the year by catching the Red Planet at its brightest, take in the distant Elephant's Trunk Nebula, and view the Quadrantid meteor shower

This blog takes a look at an almost five-hundred-year-old geographical text in the Caird Library and Archive.

Find out what to see in the night sky this December, including not one, but two meteor showers!

Find out what to see in the November night sky, including the Orion Nebula, open star clusters and more.