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HADDINGTON: John Gray Centre Museum, 15 Lodge Street, EH41 3DX. Tel: 01620 820690. Open Monday to Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am – 4pm and Sunday 1pm – 4pm from April to September. Open Friday to Tuesday from October to March. Admission free. Bus route 121. Two galleries, one with exhibitions from the Museum Service collections and the other with a programme of changing exhibitions drawn from and suggested by the local community. The Land and the Sea permanent exhibition has many items associated with East Lothian’s past as a maritime trading hub.
MUSSELBURGH: Musselburgh Museum, 65 High Street, EH21 7BZ. Tel: 0131 665 6642. Open Thursday to Saturday 10.30am – 4pm from March to November. Bus route 124 and X24. Exhibitions include “Raise your Glass”, a history of brewing and malting in Musselburgh, and an exhibition to celebrate the racecourse bicentenary.
NEWTONGRANGE: National Mining Museum Scotland, Lady Victoria Colliery, EH22 4QN. Tel: 0131 663 7519. Open 7 days a week, 10am – 5pm. Next to Newtongrange station on the new Borders Railway with direct trains from Edinburgh Waverley every 30mins. Lady Victoria Colliery, home of the National Mining Museum Scotland, opened in 1895 as Scotland’s first super-pit and ceased production in 1981. It now serves as an example of one of the best preserved Victorian Collieries in Europe and captures the developments in mining over generations.
NORTH BERWICK: Coastal Communities Museum, School Road, EH39 4JU. Tel: 01620 894313. Open 11am – 4pm, Wednesday to Sunday, in April, July and August. Otherwise 11am - 4pm, Saturday and Sunday, from May to November. Also open UK Public Holiday Mondays. Admission free, donations welcome. Reopened in 2013, the museum has put on seven exhibitions to date. See OUT & ABOUT in and around North Berwick Section for details of the current exhibition.
PRESTONPANS: Prestongrange Museum, Morrison’s Haven, EH32 4RX. Tel: 0131 653 2904. Open Monday to Sunday 11.30am – 4.30pm from April to September. From October to March the site is still open to be explored. Admission free. Bus routes 124 and X24. For centuries Prestongrange was a place of intense industrial activity. A harbour, glass works, pottery, colliery and brickworks have all left their marks. The site is a haven for wildlife where you are free to roam and explore relics of Scotland’s industrial heritage. There’s pit head winding gear, a Cornish beam engine, vast brick kiln, coal wagons, a steam crane and much more.
 
North Berwick Low Quay with yachts/dinghies and washing on line

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