Fife Folk Museum

High Street
Ceres
Cupar
Fife
KY15 5NF


The Fife Folk Museum has won many awards, most recently the Glenfiddich and the Kintore awards.

Our restoration project (funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund, HistoricScotland, Fife Environmental Trust and Fife Council) is now complete, but admission charges are being held at 2002 prices.

The Fife Folk Museum invites you to discover the history of everyday rural life in this area. Located in the small historic burgh of Ceres, this collection has been built up since the Museum opened in 1968. Generous donations from all over Fife include everything from bars of soap to box beds and bicycles, doll's prams to farm carts, mouse-traps to steam engines.

Explore the burgh tolbooth, which dates from 1673. Inspect the weigh-house, and visit the dungeon and its prisoner! Visit the cottage of a hand-loom weaver and find about the part the linen industry played in Fife from about 1700.

Be transported into the homes, the farms and the workshops of the Kingdom of Fife. A dresser displays the pottery and china so prized in the humblest of homes, including some rare and unusual products of the Fife pottery industry. Lively displays show the clothes people wore, the sports they played and their children's dolls. The museum also has a large collection of lace, patchwork, samplers clothes and accessories.

Find out more about the tools used by skilled craftsmen such as clay pipe-makers, plasterers, stonemasons, thatchers and joiners. Life on a farm a hundred years ago was hard work. Come and learn about working horses, dairying, hand-sowing and harvesting, and the lives of the farm workers.

Enjoy a visit our museum shop for souvenirs and gifts. If your visit sparks a deeper interest in the history of Fife, the Museum's library, local history archive and photographic collection can be seen by appointment with the curator.

The main Museum building is a category A listed building, and although access has been improved for ambulant disabled people, it is still not fully wheelchair accessible. Please write or telephone (01334 828180) for more information.

 

Opening Times
(2007 times)
15th April to 30th September:
Daily 11.30am - 4.30pm

Admission Charges
(2007 prices)
Adult £2.50; Accompanied Child under 16yrs Free.
Booked parties Adult £1.50; Concession £2.00.

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