Stirling Smith wins Visitor Attraction of the Year at Stirling Business Awards 2024

The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum has been named Visitor Attraction of the Year at the Stirling Business Awards 2024. The team was presented with the honour last night at the annual awards run by Go Forth Stirling BID. The museum was among a host of award winners revealed

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Bridges between Imagination and Reality An exhibition of paintings by Peter Yates

This exhibition, from Stirling – born artist Peter Yates, is part retrospective and part new work. Some of the works have been inspired by wind farms. Although wind farms are Scotland’s fastest growing renewable energy technology and are prominent on the landscape in many parts of Scotland, few artists have

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Out of Time, David Paterson Photography

The stones tell us that humans have long been capable great feats of strength and organisation, and that they have been engaged since the beginning in a search for meaning and spirituality. These monuments speak directly to us and though we may no longer understand their language, we feel their

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IMAGE CREDIT: ROB MCDOUGALL

World’s Oldest Football Kicks Off Scotland’s Summer of Sport

  Alan Rough encourages visitors to discover country’s sporting memorabilia as World Cup reaches climax   To celebrate Sunday’s epic clash between Argentina and Germany in the FIFA World Cup final, legendary Scotland goalkeeper Alan Rough has been getting to grips with an exact replica of the world’s oldest football.

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The Stirling Smith receives its First Birthday Present for 2014

  Twenty textile artists have collaborated on the new banner, sewn by the members of the Stirling and District Embroiderers Guild. With the 140th birthday of the Smith, the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn, the centenary of the Great War, and the 50th anniversary of the Stirling – Dunedin twinning, the

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