TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR, 2024
The East Lothian Safari
29 June – 25 August 2024
10th Anniversary Celebration!
The Tapestry’s world premiere exhibition was held in Prestonpans ten years ago this June.
To celebrate this milestone, we have partnered with East Lothian Council’s museums and libraries to present a special multi-venue exhibition which embeds the tapestry into the communities of its home county.
Selections of panels, in country groupings, will be displayed at 17 venues around East Lothian.
There will be a hub exhibition at the Battle of Prestonpans Museum (Prestonpans Town Hall) explaining how the tapestry was created, which will also feature the Global Panels and the Italian Panels.
For the full list of locations and their opening hourse, click here.
Launch event at Prestonpans Town Hall, 12pm on Saturday 29 June.
Dalkeith Palace, Scotland
15-17 March 2024
A chance to view the whole Tapestry in a single venue – the maginificent early 18th century palace of the Dukes of Buccleuch.
The palace is sited just south of Edinburgh, in the midst of beautiful parkland.
This special exhibition lasts only 3 days, so be sure to take the chance to visit if you can! It will be open from 11am-4pm on Friday 15th, Saturday 16th, and Sunday 17th March.
The tapestry’s panels will be displayed across a range of rooms on the ground floor of the palace, and there’ll be a range of tapestry-related books and souvenirs available to help support the project. There will even be a pop-up cafe too.
No booking is required, and there is a recommended donation of £5 for visitors.
Car parking within Dalkeith Country Park is available for £3 per car.
SCOTLAND & ENGLAND, 2017-2021
March 20th – April 29th 2017
Westminster Hall, London SW1
Hosts: Parliament & Crown Court Church, Covent Garden
4th – 18th May 2017
St Giles Cathedral
The Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Our Coming Home Exhibition
June 2nd – 11th 2017
3 Harbours Festival
Prestonpans Community Centre
Prestonpans
Hosts: Prestonpans Friends of The Tapestries
July 22nd- August 12th 2017
Crieff Remembers Games Hall
at Morrison’s Academy in Crieff
September 16th – 30th 2017
Dunrobin Street, Helmsdale, Sutherlandshire
Helmsdale Community Hall
October 5th – 18th 2017
Irvine Townhouse
Irvine, North AyrshireHosts: Irvine Burns Club & NAC Heritage
November 17th – 19th 2017
EAF 2017: Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Newmarket Road, EH14 1RJ
Hosts: Edinburgh Arts Fair
This will be a small selection of the panels
27th January – 18th February 2018
Dunoon
Hosts: The School Team that created its own panel
March 6th – 15th 2018
The Border Kirk CarlisleHosts: Moving Mountains Mission
April 6th – June 28th 2018
Stanley Mills, Stanley
Hosts: Historic Environment Scotland
August 2018
John Muir Museum: Dunbar
Selected John Muir panels only
July 11th – November 10th 2018
Garioch Heritage CentreInverurie, Aberdeenshire
March 2nd- April 28th 2019
New Lanark Mills
June 3rd/ July 2nd 2019
St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow G4 9JB
In two parts
3rd/ 16th: British Isles, Baltic, Western Europe & Southern Asia
17th June/ July 2nd: Canada, The Americas, Africa & Australasia
May 27th/ September 13th 2021
High Mill, Verdant Works
Dundee
October 10th/ 31st 2021
Chatham-Kent with Guelph in Ontario, Canada
Canadian Panel Collection
January 15th et seq 2022
Prestonpans Town Hall
Selection of nation panels by rotation
GLOBAL TOURING 2015 – 2017
Hosted by the embroiderers themselves in their own communities
sponsored by Barons Courts of Prestoungrange & Dolphinstoun
direction: Sharon Beck – Jenny Bruce – Arran Johnston – Gordon Prestoungrange
Western Europe – Australia – New Zealand – Canada – USA – Iceland
16th March – 11th April 2015
BERGEN, Norway
Hosts: Bergen Scottish Society
30th May – 26th July 2015
VEERE, Netherlands
Hosts: Scottish Houses Museum, Stichting Veere-Shotland
8th -26th August 2015
BARGA, Italy
Hosts: Commune di Barga
29th August – 26th September 2015
PICINISCO, Italy
Hosts: Marietta & Cesidio di Ciaccia
3rd – 17th October 2015
BOUSSY-SAINT-ANTOINE, France
Hosts: Twinning Association, University of Edinburgh Alumni of France
21st – 29th October 2015
PARIS, France
Hosts: Twinning Association, University of Edinburgh Alumni of France
November 13th – 21st 2015
GOOLWA, South Australia
Hosts: Community Arts: Alexandrina Council
November 29th – December 13th 2015
Burnside Civic Centre, ADELAIDE, South Australia
Hosts: Scottish Associations of South Australia and the City of Burnside
January 9th – January 23rd 2016
LINC, HOBART, Tasmania
Hosts: LINC State Library Hobart & Dr Neil McGlashan
February 3rd – 24th 2016
Albury Library/ Museum & Lavington Library, ALBURY, New South Wales
Hosts: Albury City Council
February 28th – March 13th 2016
Wangaratta Library, WANGARATTA, Victoria
March 23 – April 2nd 2016
Chrissie Cotter Gallery SYDNEY, New South Wales
Hosts: Heather Smallbone & the Sydney stitchers
April 9th – 30th 2016
Otago, DUNEDIN, New Zealand
Hosts: Toitu Otago Settlers Museum
13th – 30th May 2016
Christ Church Cathedral, VICTORIA, British Columbia
930 Burdett Avenue
13th June – 3rd July 2016
Manitoba Legislative Building, WINNIPEG, Manitoba
Host: Scottish Heritage Council of Manitoba
16th – 31st July 2016
Vaughn Hall, MONTELLO, Marquette County, Wisconsin
Host: Montello Historic Preservation Society & Wisconsin Friends of John Muir
19th September – 1st October 2016
St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Scarborough, TORONTO
Host: St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
8th – 22nd October 2016
CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island
Art Galley, The Confederation Centre of The Arts
Host: Mary Gallant
7th – 12th November 2016
Glasgow Street Theatre, NEW GLASGOW, Nova Scotia
Host: Troy MacCulloch
19th November – 10th December 2016
Atwater Library and Computer Centre, Westmount, MONTREAL
Hosts: St Andrew’s Society of Montreal
31st December, 2016
Global and Canadian Tapestries Pre-exhibit: 5-9pm
Horticulture Building, Lansdowne , OTTAWA
Hogmanay celebrations
1st January – 25th January 2017
Ottawa Public Library, 120 Metcalf Street, OTTAWA
Hosts: the Scottish Society of Ottawa
2nd – 28th February 2017
Eyjafaorsveit, NODORLAND, Iceland
Venue: The Music House
YEAR OF HOMECOMING (2014)
31st May – 8th June 2014
The Homecoming Launch
PRESTONPANS – Three Harbours Arts Festival
Prestonpans Community Centre
24th June – 23rd July 2014
STIRLING – MacRobert Centre, Stirling University
6th August – 31st August 2014
EDINBURGH – St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral
6th September – 22nd September 2014
PAISLEY – Anchor Mill
27th September – 25th October 2014
Split Exhibition
INVERNESS – Museum & Art Gallery
& WICK – St Fergus Gallery
28th October – 9th November 2014
HELMSDALE, Sutherland
Community Centre
11th-20th December 2014
MUSSELBURGH Museum, East Lothian
a selection of panels including the Dutch, French & Jamaican sets