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Does anyone have any information about Pender's Quarry in Tobermory? The picture shows it written on an undated, hand dr...
14/10/2026

Does anyone have any information about Pender's Quarry in Tobermory? The picture shows it written on an undated, hand drawn map and it is also mentioned in our catalogue as being the site of the cannon on the Lighthouse Path.

Any rally enthusiasts here this week can pop in to the museum and see the first volume of press cuttings from the 2300 C...
05/10/2026

Any rally enthusiasts here this week can pop in to the museum and see the first volume of press cuttings from the 2300 Club archive from 1969-1989.

FUNDRAISER - Help us purchase a microfilm scannerhttps://www.justgiving.com/campaign/mull-museum-scannerThe Museum has a...
31/08/2026

FUNDRAISER - Help us purchase a microfilm scanner

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/mull-museum-scanner

The Museum has a large amount of microfilm, negatives and 35mm slides that need to be digitised to a professional standard. Help us purchase and maintain a multi-format scanner to preserve and back up these images and data.

Please share to any pages/groups who might support this campaign. Thank you!

We're very pleased that the Galeón Andalucía will be spending the next few days in Tobermory. Our new window display tel...
25/08/2026

We're very pleased that the Galeón Andalucía will be spending the next few days in Tobermory. Our new window display tells the story of Tobermory's first visit from such a vessel.

25/08/2026

From one of our family history enquiries:

Does anyone remember a Christopher Arnett who may have lived in Tobermory in the 1970s? All we know is that he died in Tobermory aged 50 in 1980. Did he live here or was he just visiting?

Any information or recollection would be gratefully received.

We're really pleased to have been gifted this textile banner from Salen Primary School. The work was part of an oral his...
10/08/2026

We're really pleased to have been gifted this textile banner from Salen Primary School. The work was part of an oral history project in the mid '90s that recorded interviews with residents at Dunaros. The finished piece hung in Salen Primary for many years and has now been passed on to the museum. We hope to have a display including the banner and other material from the project in the near future.

We found this in our donations a couple of weeks ago. We're not sure whether to treat it as cash or keep it for the arch...
18/05/2026

We found this in our donations a couple of weeks ago. We're not sure whether to treat it as cash or keep it for the archive!

Last printed in 1984, Bank of England £1 notes ceased to be legal tender in 1988. Bank of Scotland £1 notes ceased to be printed in 2001 but remain legal tender today. It's rather intriguing that, at a time when fewer people even carry cash, this 42 year old banknote came to be deposited with us.

We are grateful for any contribution to the museum, even if it's not legal tender or it's foreign currency - but we do now take cards at the museum desk and you can always donate via PayPal at our website https://www.mullmuseum.co.uk/

The museum is run entirely on donations from members, visitors and users of the archive, thank you to everyone who has contributed.

We're OPEN!Open Monday to Saturday 11am to 4pmCome and visit!Send your guests!
30/03/2026

We're OPEN!
Open Monday to Saturday 11am to 4pm
Come and visit!
Send your guests!

On this day 1881 Isabella Bird married Dr John Bishop. This photo shows Isabella on her wedding day.John was doctor to I...
08/03/2026

On this day 1881 Isabella Bird married Dr John Bishop. This photo shows Isabella on her wedding day.
John was doctor to Isabella's sister, Henrietta, who died in Tobermory in 1880 of Typhoid fever. The town clock was erected in her memory.
After John's death in 1886, Isabella founded the John Bishop Memorial Hospital in Srinagar in modern-day Kashmir.
Isabella was an English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist. She was also the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Last year a collection of radio scripts were donated to the archive, written by Col Kim Finlay from Ardhu. He wrote arti...
06/03/2026

Last year a collection of radio scripts were donated to the archive, written by Col Kim Finlay from Ardhu. He wrote articles about farming life on Mull for the Scots Magazine throughout the 1950s & 60s and these went on to be adapted into radio plays by the BBC. It is interesting to see that one of the performers involved in the radio productions was Mary Riggans, who went on to play Balamory's Suzie Sweet.

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Main Street
Tobermory
PA756QR

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+441688301100

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