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Museum Exhibitions Special Exhibitions
Museum Exhibitions Special Exhibitions
Find out about future, current and past special exhibitions at the Museum and its partner organisations. Special exhibitions complement the Museum’s permanent collection and range in size from a single case to a room.
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In 1881, Stirling Castle became the Regimental Training Depot for the Argylls. It remained the place where recruits came for their basic training right up to 1964. Even now the link continues.
“Stirling Castle hadn’t changed much since the 15th century and my bedroom was about 30ft high. It had water running down the walls...” Denis Forman
“When the annual garden party took place we children lay on the ramparts and watched all that went on below.” Mairi Paterson
“The assault course was limited but nonetheless effective and ran along the ramparts.” Former Argyll
An imposing 2.5 metre bronze statue of an Argyll has stood guard on the esplanade for a century. Weighing 1.3 tonnes, he was commissioned by the officers and men of the Regiment to commemorate their fallen comrades in the Boer War of 1899 to 1902.