St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum

PricingHalf price in your first year of English Heritage membership, then freeEH memberHalf, then freeNon-member£8.50

EH members: half price, then freeInfo

Half price, then free, for English Heritage members

This place is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland. First-year English Heritage members get 50% off the ticket price; members who have renewed get in free. Bring your valid membership card, and any pre-booked tickets, to ensure entry.

Pre-booking is recommended at Edinburgh Castle, Skara Brae, Stirling Castle, Blackness Castle, Urquhart Castle, Doune Castle and Maeshowe. Bookings are limited to six people per membership.
Bring the card itself: joint and family memberships admit the named holders only.
Historic Scotland does not offer reciprocal admission to National Trust properties, and a National Trust card is not accepted here.

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Entry

Non-member prices

Adult (aged 16 to 64)£8.50

Child (aged 7 to 15)£5.00

Concession (aged 65 and over)£6.80

Pricing details

In-person price; £7.50 booked online. One undated price table is published for the April to September season; recheck on reopening in 2027. Children under 7 free but need a ticket; up to two carers free per transaction; Young Scot card holders pay £1 online. Explorer Pass accepted in summer. Family tickets are mentioned but not sold; no joint ticket with Arbroath Abbey. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.

In-person price on Historic Scotland's page, which gives £4.50 online; the webstore sells the child ticket at £3.50 online, so the page's child row may be out of date. Under-7s free with a ticket. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.

In-person price; £6 booked online. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

Historic Scotland says there is a level tarmac car park, with the museum 150 m away over a tarmac bridge and along the pavement. No charge or free statement is published, so the status is recorded as unknown.

Driving pin: the car park at the end of the footbridge, mapped on OpenStreetMap, 103 m from HES's pin; Kirkstyle itself is a narrow lane. The museum is in the hamlet of St Vigeans, just under two miles from the centre of Arbroath. Historic Scotland names no bus service, only its journey planners.

About

St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum brings together in one place the 38 carved Pictish stones found in this small Angus village just outside Arbroath, among the very finest Pictish art in Scotland. Over 1,000 years ago St Vigeans was the centre of a royal estate and a major Pictish religious centre, busy with pilgrims and monks, and the stones once stood on the striking natural mound where the church now stands; some were built into its medieval walls. The star is the Drosten Stone, a cross-slab of the early 800s carved with an intricate cross on one face and figures and symbols on the other, and a rare inscription. Other stones show a man taking blood from a bull, a grave-cover with a man consumed by beasts, a house shrine and part of a huge free-standing cross, with saints, imps, hunters and riders in Pictish dress. The museum fills a row of red sandstone cottages on Kirkstyle, and the church and its churchyard cross-slab are two minutes' walk away.

ClosedPick a day for times and prices

Until 2 Apr: Closed
From 3 Apr: Tue, Wed, Sat 10:00–16:30, last entry 16:00

Today, Saturday 24 October

St Vigeans Sculptured Stones MuseumClosed

Opening times may change at short notice.

1 April to 30 September Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays 10am to 4.30pm, closed other days; closed for lunch 12.30pm to 1.30pm; last entry 30 minutes before closing; closed 1 October to 31 March. 1 April 2027 is a Thursday, so the first open day is Saturday 3 April. Historic Scotland recommends booking an entry slot in advance. Visitors have found it shut on advertised days, so phone ahead (01241 878 756). The museum opened only by appointment until 2019 and has had regular summer days since 2023.

The museum entrance has a very slight threshold and its two levels are joined by a 1 in 15 ramp; interactive audio and tactile displays. An adapted toilet in the museum. No shop or cafe. No dogs except assistance dogs.

Photo: Carved Pictish cross-slabs and stones displayed on gravel plinths in the gallery of St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum. PaulT (Gunther Tschuch), CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Vigeans_Sculptured_Stones_05.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.