This spectacular £12.4 million award-winning new building (EAA Building of the Year, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland's (RIAS) Andrew Doolan prize), which opened in May 2017, links superbly with the world’s first Carnegie Library and houses a new museum, exhibition galleries, local history Reading Room and children’s library and mezzanine café, The Granary Cafe at DCLG, with stunning views over the landscaped garden to Dunfermline Abbey and the Heritage Quarter.
As one of Scotland’s former ancient capitals, Dunfermline has both a remarkable royal history and an impressive industrial heritage. Dunfermline’s past is brought to life in the new museum with fascinating stories retold through a series of special films, inspiring interviews, engaging computer games and, of course, our collections.
(Please note that the Granary Cafe closes one hour before the Museum)
Come and visit our latest exhibition Hag. Knowledge, Power & Alchemy Through Craft (until 8 June 2025)
Provocatively titled but thoughtfully curated, Hag. will bring together the work of 13 of Scotland’s most inventive, creative and impactful women craft artists, including Lise Bech, Judith Davies, Caroline Dear, Claire Heminsley, Fiona Hutchison, Ruth Elizabeth Jones, Gilly Langton, Jo McDonald, Susie Redman, Patricia Shone, Carol Sinclair, Amanda Simmons and Emma Louise Wilson. Celebrating the knowledge, power & alchemy mediated by their work, the exhibition will celebrate craft skills and approaches to practice developed by these significant women over decades of work and personal endeavour.
The mastery of their own craft skills is what unites these 13 women. Visitors to this exhibition will see pieces brought together from around Scotland. They can expect to see contemporary approaches to constructing forms through tapestry, basket weaving, and work in paper and textile, as well as work formed through transformative material processes such as kiln-firing glass, hand forming clay, or enamelling and silversmithing. The relationship between artist and their close surroundings is also a theme, either as a source of inspiration, or more directly as a source for the materials themselves.
