Museums - Perth Museum & Art Gallery

With a history dating back to the formation of the Antiquarian Society of Perth in 1784, the Perth Museum is one of the oldest museums in Britain. Having combined the collections of the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth and the Perthshire Society of Natural Science in 1934, the Scottish institution opened to the public at its current, dedicated complex near the Marshall Monument in 1935. The Perth Museum contains collections of European art, Scottish and British archaeology, biology, ethnographic art, and more. Its ethnographic art holdings originated with a group of objects originally donated to the Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society in the early nineteenth century. Notable donations of tribal art have come from Dr. David Ramsay, who provided a group of Oceanic works in 1825, and from Colin Robinson, who donated a collection of Native North American objects in 1833 which included Coast Salish and Inuit works.