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Eagle Flies in Stirling
Read moreSt. Andrew’s Day is officially celebrated as a public holiday in Scotland thanks to the work of Stirling politician Dennis Canavan and his St Andrew’s
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The Star Spangled Barrel
Read morePeople sometimes question the ‘relevance’ of museum collections. Right now, the Stirling Smith’s collection is the inspiration for an international anti-gun campaign in the wake
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The Pity of War
Read moreAnda Paterson RSW RGI GSWA (born 1935) is one of the best known and most prolific Scottish artists working today. Her work is represented
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Heroic Stirling Postman
Read moreThe photograph of postman John Wardrop Thomson (1883-1962) and his Albert Medal are part of a recent collection of memorabilia gifted to the Stirling Smith
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The Valley Cemetery
Read moreThis photograph, taken by Stirling photographer Alexander Crowe, shows the cemetery in its early years. The layout was completed in 1857 and the first burial
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Stirling by Horatio MacCulloch
Read moreThis is one of three works by the eminent Scottish landscape painter Horatio MacCulloch (1805 – 1867) in the Smith collections. The view looks towards
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Scottish Seaweed
Read moreToday’s featured story can be seen at the Smith in The Colours of Nature exhibition by the Scottish Society of Botanical Artists. Although botanical art
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Lunchtime, 1984
Read moreA feature of the Painting Stirling exhibition at the Stirling Smith is the work of the eminent American – British artist, Mary Louise Coulouris (1939
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Old Coffee House, Bow Street
Read moreIn 1902, the architect J S Fleming published a book, The Ancient Castles and Mansions of the Stirling Nobility. It had hundreds of drawings, mainly
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