Museum brings cinema back to the Broch
Wallace and Gromit features to be shown throughout the weekend
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A WEEKEND of movies at a landmark museum at Fraserburgh is expected to reignite a local campaign for permanent, regular cinema nights.
The town’s award-winning museum of Scottish Lighthouses is showing Wallace and Gromit features tonight, tomorrow and Sunday as part of a wider campaign to attract more visitors to museums and galleries across the country.
The Oscar-winning feature, The Wrong Trousers, will be shown five times in the museum’s audio-visual room. It will be supported by some Shaun the Sheep short animations.
The event is the first of its kind at the museum and organisers believe if it proves popular, it may lead to fresh calls for new cinema sites in the Broch. The town’s only cinema on the High Street closed around 30 years ago. A block of flats was recently built on the site.
Museum director Virginia Mayes-Wright said: “The audio-visual room here will be perfect for this event. It’s mainly used to show a film about the lighthouse to visitors, so this will be a bit different.
“Lots of people in Fraserburgh miss the old cinema and would like to have a place to watch films in the town.
“If this weekend is a success for us, I think a lot of people may want to see it become a permanent thing.”
The first showing begins at 6pm tonight, at 11am, 3pm and 6pm tomorrow and from 11am on Sunday.
Tickets are £1 and include refreshments. To book a place call 01346 511022.
