Laing Museum

Laing Museum is a museum in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland which is located on High Street. Laing Museum is situated nearby to Newburgh Post Office, as well as near the community center Tayside Institute Community Centre.

Opening hours: Wednesday noon—4:00 PM
Type: Museum
Description: museum in Newburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Address: 120 High Street, Newburgh, KY14 6DX

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lindores Abbey and Mugdrum Island.

Lindores Abbey

Photo: Bubobubo2, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lindores Abbey was a Tironensian abbey on the outskirts of Newburgh in Fife, Scotland. Now a reduced ruin, it lies on the southern banks of the River Tay, about 1-mile north of the village of Lindores and is a scheduled monument. Lindores Abbey is situated 3,200 feet east of Laing Museum.

Mugdrum Island

Island

Photo: A A Lang, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mugdrum Island lies in the Firth of Tay on the east coast of Scotland, opposite the town of Newburgh in Fife. It is low-lying and reedy, and covers an area of 55.7 acres.

MacDuff’s Cross

Wayside cross

Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

MacDuff's Cross, also known as the Cross of MacDuff or Ninewells, is the remains of an ancient white sandstone monument, located on a historic site between Lindores and Newburgh in Fife, Scotland. MacDuff’s Cross is situated 1 mile south of Laing Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newburgh and Lindores.

Newburgh

Town

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Newburgh is a royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, at the south shore of the Firth of Tay. The town has a population of 2,171, which constitutes a 10% increase since 1901 when the population was counted at 1,904 persons.

Lindores

Village

Lindores is a small village in Fife, Scotland, in the parish of Abdie, about 2 miles south-east of Newburgh. It is situated on the north-east shore of Lindores Loch, a 44 ha freshwater loch. Lindores is situated 2 miles southeast of Laing Museum.

Cottown

Village

Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cottown is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, east of the village of St.Madoes and approximately 8 miles east of Perth. This area is in the Carse of Gowrie, and Cottown sits on a bank a rich alluvial soil to the north of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. Cottown is situated 2½ miles northwest of Laing Museum.

Laing Museum

Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.35099° or 56° 21′ 4″ north

Longitude

-3.24137° or 3° 14′ 29″ west

Operator

Newburgh Ancestry & History Society

Open location code

9C8R9Q25+9F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 492986227

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q113370013

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