Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren Yes Place The town or city Stonehaven HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess Yes Activities 1748 - 1749: three Episcopalian Ministers were incarcerated in the Tolbooth for the crime of congregational assembly of more than five people at the (now ruined) chapel situated on the grounds of Muchalls Castle along the ancient Causey Mounthy path. OpeningTime1 10:00am - 4:30pm ArchitectName Unknown OpeningDate1 14/9/2019 OpeningDate2 15/9/2019 OpeningTime2 10:00am - 4:30pm IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 10412 Refreshments No Street The street address Tolbooth Museum AddressLine2 Old Pier Postcode AB39 2JU Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tolbooth Museum, Stonehaven Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived aberdeenshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 336 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.9607793,-2.2023429; Description An account of the resource The Tolbooth is the oldest building in Stonehaven, dating from the late 16th Century. Stonehaven Tolbooth was built by George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal (c. 1553 - 1623), in Old Red Sandstone as a storehouse. Gables Crow Stepped. Chimney at west end. It is a category A listed building. In 1600 an Act of Parliament provided that the building became a Tolbooth and local District Court. After 1624 the town business functions were also conducted from the building. Today the ground floor contains a museum that showcases the building’s turbulent past and Stonehaven’s rich history. Visitors can examine the model of the Earth’s earliest known air breathing animal found at nearby Cowie, reminisce over past domestic life, view old photographs of the town or study the local geology. You can also study the plans for the extension to the building which includes a larger museum space and a glass encased café. Artifacts on display include: items of incarceration, prehistory cist, cup stone and an extensive range of local fishing and farming implements. *Please note – the 1st floor contains the Tolbooth Restaurant which is not part of the Open Doors Days Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1570