Mount Stuart Trust Education Programme

A vital component of Mount Stuart Trust’s aims and objectives is to promote public awareness, interaction and education in buildings of historic and architectural interest, the visual and decorative arts, botany, science, the rural environment, and contemporary visual arts, and to utilize Mount Stuart as an inclusive educational resource for all ages, pre-school to adults.

Since 2002 the trust has collaborated with various partners and specialist groups to progress and provide workshops, tours and lectures which provide the multiple resources and context Mount Stuart has to offer in terms of the archives, history, collections, gardens, tourism and contemporary visual arts programme at Mount Stuart, and conservation of the island’s rural environment, ancient sites and wildlife. Events are facilitated together with community, national and international partnership organizations and Mount Stuart Trust’s archivist, curator, contemporary visual arts director, countryside ranger and tourism team.

We have a dedicated lecture and audio visual room in the Visitor Centre, and can provide larger spaces within the house on request.

Partners have included Achievement Bute, Ardgowan Estate, Argyll and Bute Healthy Living Fair, Argyll College, Bute Healthy Living, Cardiff Castle, Cove Park Fairbairn Residency, Dollar Academy, Dunblane High School, Edinburgh College of Art, Engage Scotland, Excel Group, Falkland Heritage Trust, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow University, Gourock High School, The Great Steward of Scotland's Dumfries House Trust, Greenock Academy, Heriott Watt University, Holyrood Secondary, James Watt College, Metropolitan College Glasgow, National Library of Scotland, North Bute Primary School, Judy Parrott (local artist), pARTners, Rothesay Joint Campus, Rothesay Social Inclusion Programme (SIP), Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, "Safe Kids" Project, St Andrew's Primary School, Step Up Programme and Strathclyde University.

Please contact contactus@mountstuart.com for further information on educational events. We can collaborate on events according to your requirements.

Mount Stuart, Britain’s most astounding Victorian gothic house