Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

Re-opened in May 2017, this centre piece of Dunfermline's Heritage Quarter incorporates the world's first Carnegie Library, a new museum featuring a functioning jacquard loom celebrating Dunfermline’s textile heritage, a café and three exhibition galleries.

What's On @ Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

Canmore Room Events - Bannockburn 1314. Why Was the Battle Fought?

24 Jun 2026 - 24 Jun 2026

Professor Michael Brown of St Andrews University will deliver a lecture on one of the most famous battles in Scotland’s history, the Battle of Bannockburn, looking into the reasons it was fought and how the Scots emerged victorious.

Canmore Room Events - the Declaration of Arbroath and the 1820 Radical War

3 Jun 2026 - 3 Jun 2026

Dr Michael Penman of Stirling University will deliver a lecture about the Declaration of Arbroath, a document written by Scottish Barons in 1320 and presented to Pope John XX11 asking him to acknowledge Robert the Bruce as Scotland’s lawful King.

Canmore Room Events - the Search for the Lost Baggage Ferry of King Charles 1st

15 May 2026 - 15 May 2026

This lecture by Ian Archibald of Burntisland Heritage Trust will tell the story of the search for the wreckage of the Baggage Ferry of King Charles 1st, ‘The Blessing’, that sank in the River Forth in 1633 during the Coronation Tour of King Charles 1st.

Canmore Room Events - Who Was Andrew Carnegie?

16 Jul 2026 - 16 Jul 2026

Sharron McColl, the Local Studies Supervisor in Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries, will deliver a lecture on one of the world’s greatest ever philanthropists, Dunfermline born Andrew Carnegie.

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