We can’t wait for the Falconer Museum to reopen as a fun, friendly place where everyone can explore, learn and enjoy Scotland’s amazing heritage, get creative, care for nature, and discover more about the world from this wonderful 19th century building far into the future.
The Falconer Museum SCIO was formally constituted as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation in December 2025 with the aim of re-opening the Victorian-built museum which was closed in 2019.
The Falconer family lived at the bottom of Tolbooth Street and like the buildings in the photograph, their house is still there today.
To view the life story of Dr Hugh Falconer – you will find at the bottom left of your screen – a 15 minute video called “The Fossil Hunter” telling the extraordinary tale of an extraordinary Forresian.