Queen of South Museum
The Queen of South is a Scottish league club, founded in 1919, currently playing in Division One.
Location: in the main stand of their home ground Palmerston Park, Dumfries.
Opening year: 1994
Annual visitor number: 400 to 600
Collection size: 1000 objects (almost all are on display)
Museum objects include club player related artifacts like the Scotland top of Billy Houliston and boots of Bobby Black, both local legends. They also have a match shirt worn by Brazilian star Zico in the 1982 World Cup Finals.
The most impressive object among the silverware is the Southern Counties Charity Cup that dates back to the 1880’s. Queen of South has won that cup no less than sixteen times.
One of the less predictable objects in the collection is a piece of fire damaged wood from the old stand fire from 1964.
Queen of South is struggling severely with their finances at the moment. If the club can succeed with their plans to build a new stand, more room will be given to the club museum.
Thanks to
Ian Black, Museum Curator, Queen of South
Read more about
Queen of South on their website
and about their financial situation on BBC,
here and
here
On their brand new website the Scottish Football Museum highlights the fact that Guinness World Records has declared that the Scottish Cup of 1874 is the oldest national trophy.
