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Blairs Museum

A museum of Scotland's Catholic heritage, formerly in the old Blairs seminary near Aberdeen; it is currently closed while the collection moves to new premises.

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Midlertidigt lukket. The museum's website says it is closed and in the process of moving to a new location; no new address or reopening date has been published. The collection can be explored online.

Om museet

St Mary's College at Blairs was founded in 1829 as Scotland's national junior seminary for Roman Catholic boys preparing for the priesthood. It grew out of the earlier secret seminary at Scalan and stood on land near Aberdeen given to the Church by John Menzies of Pitfodels, who also gave his mansion. The college closed in 1986.

Over 157 years the college gathered an internationally important collection, built from gifts and from the former Scots Colleges in Europe. It includes paintings, church textiles, sacred silver and gold, and Jacobite relics. A full-length memorial portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, painted as she appeared at her execution, is the best-known work, and the embroidered vestments cover more than 500 years.

After the college closed, an independent trust, established in 1992 as the Blairs Museum Trust, took charge of the collection and later became the Scottish Catholic Heritage Collections Trust. The museum was housed in part of the former college buildings on South Deeside Road. Its website now states that the museum is closed and moving to a new location, without naming the new place or a reopening date.