Harbourside, Irvine

Explore the Linthouse engine shop, Scotland’s ‘Cathedral of Engineering’,
a Victorian Glass-roofed building from 1872.

Build and test your own model boat, or learn to manoeuvre a
remote-controlled boat in our indoor boating ponds.

See our collection of floating vessels, including Spartan, Scotland’s last
Scottish-built puffer, the harbour tug Garnock, and Carola, a steam yacht
built in 1898.

Learn about Scotland’s importance to maritime history, and about the people
that built and sailed Scottish ships around the world.

Visit the shipyard worker’s tenement flat, a ‘room and kitchen’ restored to its
pre-1920’s appearance.

Discover ship models, photographs and historic objects in the museum’s Boatshop.

To find out a bit more about Irvine, please click on the following link to a short

video.  Video One

Opening Hours

April 1st – October 31st – 10:00 – 17:00, with seasonal events in the Boat shop.

Last Admissions 4.30pm every day.

Prices

Adult              £3.50

Concession   £2.50

Family            £9.50  (Up to 2 Adults / 2 Children)

Child              £2.50

Puffers Coffee Shop is now reopen and has an all new menu as well as

a brand new feel & look to it. Puffers is open all year round, seven days

a week, with some of the most amazing views in Ayrshire.

 

 

 

 

 

For more information on the upcoming events at Irvine in 2010, please click on this link - Events

 

Getting There

For Satnav users, our Postcode is - KA12 8QE

Parking is free within the museum grounds.

SMM Irvine is situated just five minutes walk from Irvine

Train Station.

Harbourside,

Gottries Road,
Irvine,
Ayrshire,
Scotland,
KA12 8QE
Email: curator@scotmaritime.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1294 278283
Fax: +44 (0)1294 313211