Fife Folk Museum
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Fife Folk Museum

Fife Folk Museum was opened in 1968, the buildings are of historic interest. Visitors enter the 17th Century Tolbooth and Weigh House to find an exhibition of local history, weights and measures and a dungeon. They continue to glimpse the past in the adjoining cottages and extensions, how people lived in the home and worked on the farm and the trade and craft tools they used. The two pantiled cottages "next the museum were weavers' cottages which became part of the Museum as it expanded, as did the long-derelict site of an old bothy across the High Street.
 

   Fife folk museum

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   The old building itself had a dual function. Built in 1673 for local landlords the Hopes of Craighall, it served as the local court-house and gaol for perhaps 150 years. It also served as the local weigh-house where rents, paid to the Hopes in agricultural produce, could be measured. The weavers' cottages recall an age when flax growing and linen-making were a way of life, and the bothy and garden represent the agricultural tradition of Fife.

 
In 1984 the museum was awarded third in the Scottish Museum of the Year Award and its new extension gained a Civic Trust Commendation. In 1985 it was awarded a Europa Nostra Diploma of Merit for its "admirable restoration and adaptation through voluntary dedication of the 17th century Weigh House and adjoining cottages as the Folk Museum".  
 

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