Fright Night at the Museum!

The museum’s Halloween event will be on October 27th and 28th, from 1pm to 8pm.

Frights and activities for the whole family – Face painting with the witch, Apple dooking, build your own ghostly galleon, play a gruesome fishing game, have your fortune told, make a Halloween mask, and listen to tales of terror in the creepy curator’s study.

Come in your Halloween best, as there will be a competition for the best costume, on Saturday at 6pm and on Sunday at 3pm.

Tickets – Family £7, Adults £3, Child £2

Tickets can be pre-booked by calling 01294 278 283 or just turn up on the day.

In the Linthouse building, Scottish Maritime Museum, Gottries Rd, Irvine KA12 8QE.

On the 18th & 19th of August 2007 Pirates will descend on the Scottish Maritime Museum, Harbourside, Irvine.

Pirate Captains “Robin the Red” and “Bonnie the Black” are invading Irvine. They will bring with them rafts to build, boats to make and race and new pirate flags to design.

Win prizes and jewels from them in treasure hunts and fishing games.

Have your photo taken with the pirates at Bleached Bone Island.

Fun, me hearties, FUN!

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A Show Scotland 2007 event at the
Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine.

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This event will have the theme of Castaway!, inspired by Robert Louis Stephenson’s book Treasure Island, highlighting the position of Stephenson as one of Scotland’s most famous sons.

The event will take place over the weekend of the 5th and 6th of May, and will offer all the activities normally offered by the museum, including model boat building, remote-controlled model boats and demonstrations of working boatbuilding machinery. The main focus of the event will be group activities, set up in the museum’s main Linthouse Engine Shop building. These activities will be both enjoyable events for those participating, and provide a fun spectacle for onlookers not participating.

Groups will cooperate to ‘escape’ from a desert Island by building a raft from bamboo poles, taking with them as much ‘treasure’ as they can carry, and raising a mast and sail on their raft to escape.

Groups will then construct a rescue ship from materials provided, and try out their ship design on the museum’s new indoor racing pond.

Museum staff have been working hard to construct props for the event, including a new pond, palm trees complete with a menagerie of tropical animals, and costumes for participants.

The museum will be open for the event from 10.00am to 5.00pm on both the Saturday and the Sunday. All this will be available for the normal museum entry charges of £7.00 for a family, £3.00 for an adult and £2.00 for concession. Special prices will be available for booked groups.

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