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1 High Street, Elgin Museum And Museum Hall 57°38′58″N 3°18′37″W / 57.649306°N 3.310153°W / 57.649306; -3.310153 ( 1 High Street, Elgin Museum And Museum Category A
The 9th century Pictish Elgin Pillar, found in the churchyard of St Giles' Church in 1823. The discovery of the Elgin Pillar, a 9th-century class II Pictish stone, under the High Street in 1823 suggests there may have been an Early Christian presence in the area of the later market, but there is no further evidence of activity before Elgin was created a Royal Burgh in the 12th century. [7]
The school closed in 1979. Activities and exhibits at the museum include an opportunity to participate in a Victorian classroom situation, with employed actors playing teachers who impose strict discipline. [3] The school is the subject of a 2018 documentary by Margaret Moore, Scotland Street School Remembers. [2] [4]
Entry to the museum is free. The museum is housed in a Category A listed building [2] on Elgin's High Street and was designed by architect Thomas Mackenzie in 1842, with later alterations and additions made by A. Marshall Mackenzie and Son in 1920. Its fossil collection is classed as a Recognised Collection by Museums Galleries Scotland. [3]
Scotland Street School Museum, within the school building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh [5] Kingston Halls, attributed to the architect Robert William Horn (1869-1932); [6] it incorporated the first Carnegie funded library to be opened in the city [7] Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Building - 1886-93, Bruce & Hay [8]
The Old Town Hall in Moray Street. The first town hall in Elgin was on the north side of Moray Street. It was designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie in the Scottish baronial style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1885. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of five bays facing onto Moray Street.
Moray County Council was initially based at the Old Courthouse adjoining Elgin Sheriff Court on the High Street in Elgin. By the 1930s it was too small and so was demolished and replaced by a new headquarters on the same site, called the 'County Buildings'. Work began on the new building in 1938 but was paused due to the Second World War. [22]
Elgin Museum could refer to: The Elgin Public Museum in Elgin, Illinois, USA; The Elgin Museum (Moray) in Elgin, Moray, Scotland; The Elgin Museum (Oregon) in Elgin, Oregon, USA; The Elgin Military Museum in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada; The Elgin Museum (North Dakota) in Elgin, North Dakota