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Discover Prestongrange 

 
Welcome to Prestongrange!
 
The Prestongrange site is open every day throughout the year, and you are welcome to walk around and explore.

The Visitor Centre and Exhibitions are open every day from 1 April to 31 October: 11.30am-4.30pm

Find us on the coast road between Musselburgh and Prestonpans:   

Morrison's Haven, Prestonpans, East Lothian, EH32 9RX

T: 0131 653 2904 (out of season: 01620 820600)

The new What's on leaflet for 2012 is coming soon, or look at the Events & Exhibitions pages.

Admission is free!

Prestongrange is a site of major importance in the story of Scotland's Industrial Revolution. It was the location of a sixteenth-century harbour, a seventeenth-century glass works, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century potteries and a nineteenth/twentieth-century coal mine and brick works. Remnants of these former industries can still be seen, and many of the structures are still intact, including the rare Hoffman Kiln built in 1937 and the Cornish Beam Engine, unique in Scotland as the only beam engine still on the site where it worked.

►Explore the site using our audio guides, available in English and German (suggested donation £1) 

 
►Visit our exhibitions Echoes of Industry and The Last Miners' House: A 1960s Livingroom
 
 
►Take our NEW guided tour around the site, led by one of our Museum Assistants (£2.10 per person; under 16s free) 
 

   

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The museum was the first local authority museum in Scotland to achieve full Accreditation under the MLS accreditation scheme.

Accredited Museum by MLA