Welcome to the Year of Coast and Waters 2020

#GoIndustrial is making a splash this year for the Year of Coast and Waters 2020!

See our full #YCW2020 events listings here.

On 18th July 2020 for Go Industrial Day 2020 all our members will be diving in to the #YCW2020 with events on site and live streaming on social.

The Vikings are invading Auchindrain on 18-19th July 2020 for Go Industrial Day 2020! Find out more.
At National Mining Museum Scotland, discover the science of being drookit in this H20 water show! Find out more.
Join the Scottish Fisheries Museum for drop-in storytelling and drop-in crafts throughout the day.
Find out more about Almond Valley Heritage Centre's historic waterwheel on Go Industrial Day.
Head on down to Irvine for sea shanties at the Scottish Maritime Museum.
Summerlee Museum is having water power fun by the Monkland canal - find out more.
Get up close to a mighty steam engine and meet the footplate crew to learn about how water is used power trains at Museum of Scottish Railways.
New Lanark will have costumed tours, family crafting sessions, the summer exhibtion and more!
The Maid of the Loch will be getting invovled with its event - Steam Engines, Models and Minecraft!
Sea shanties and seashore storytelling will be happening at Discovery Point.
Verdant Works will host a Victorian seaside carnival event.

More details to follow!

The Annual Harbour Festival is bigger and better this year and will round off the Museum’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.
Two Exhibtions - Sea Change and Mr Darwin Fishes - are on until 21st April and 29th February 2020.
Plastic Pollution 'An Ocean Story', a film screening, is on 22nd February 2020.
Artist Will McLean will talk about Always Boats and Men on 26th March 2020.

From 28th March to 14th June, Lesley Banks’ Landscapes of Water is an exhibition of work that beautifully captures the magnificent coastal and inland waterways of Scotland.
On 18th April, visit the Scottish maritime heritage exhibtion, Ships Ahoy!

At Irvine:

See Woven Waves until 29th March - an exhibition of the Jutland Tapestries by Katie Russell.
Betsy Miller gives a maritime history tour (with rum tasting!) every month.
Woven Waves: Jutland: The Unfinished Battle with Nick Jellicoe will exlpore the biggest naval battle on 14th March 2020.
Artsist Katie Russell will host a Tapestry Weaving Workshop on 28th March 2020 and a Guided Tour on 29th March 2020.

At Dumbarton, see Window on the Clyde until 15th March 2020 - an exhibition of photography from the river's golden age.

Enjoy some family fun with Crafting at the Quayside on 4th April 2020.