Community Day 2025

This is an archived event. Please see our Events page for our current events.

Date: 11:00-15:00 1 August 2025

Join us for a day full of family fun from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Friday 1 August 2025 for our free event.

This is our annual annual community day is back and join in for a day of free family fun, we'll have games, crafts, and lots more to keep you entertained all day long... See you there!

Collaborative Artwork

Come along on and help us create a wonderful collaborative art exhibition. You will be creating unique artwork by exploring the themes of David’s childhood, exploring Central Africa, special artifacts/objects from the museum. Your stunning artwork will be displayed at the museum. We will be using colourful collage, markers, tissue paper, to express ourselves and to create artwork inspired by the objects from the museum collection. No Experience required, all welcome. Our lovely tour guides will take you into the museum, you will have storytelling session and explain to you about various items in the collection for you to be inspired to create something your very own artwork for our living legacy to David Livingstone.

Classic School Sports Day

Join us in the main meadow for a day of classic school sports day activities, we will be hosting various games such as: Team Relay races, egg and spoon race, sack race and many more. We will round off our day with a mass game of rounders and a tug of war.

Note: Young children must be supervised by their parents. All materials are provided.
Community Day Free

Please also see our other Events information.


We are very grateful to our key funders the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Historic Environment Scotland and the Scottish Government for their support in helping us deliver the Birthplace Project.

National Lottery Heritage Fund
Scottish Government
Historic Environment Scotland
Note: Please note that David Livingstone Birthplace (and the David Livingstone Trust) is no longer part of National Trust Scotland (NTS). NTS members will therefore no longer receive discounted/free entry to the Birthplace Museum.

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