Plan your visit
Getting here
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum can be found at 40 Albert Place, FK8 2RQ. The museum is free to visit.
The Smith is a short walk from Stirling city centre. Your walk to the museum with take you through the remnants of the medieval city to reach our Victorian building set in stunning grounds.
The Smith is about a 13 minute walk from Stirling Rail Station. The station is well connected for destinations across the country, with regular services to and from Dundee, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness, and London.
A bike rack is available for visitors.
Stirling is a cycle-friendly city. To find out more about cycling in Stirling check out Stirling Council and Independent Stirling’s Cycling Guides.
Bike rentals are available from Nextbike.
The Smith is served by Firstbus Service 10X Stirling-Balfron-Glasgow and P2 Castleview Park & Ride Bus. The bus stop is located just outside of the museum on Albert Place.
Find out more about Service 10X
Find out more about the P2 Park & Ride Bus
Stirling Bus Station is about a 15 minute walk from the Smith.
Parking at the Smith is free of charge for visitors to the museum and gardens. Our car park is accessed through a barrier. Our front of house team will provide you with the code to the barrier when you are ready to leave.
The Smith Cafe
Opening hours are Monday – Saturday 10:00 –16:00 and Sunday 10:00 - 15:00. Please note the café and museum opening times differ. For café enquiries please call 01786 471917
The Garden
The garden has been developed to encourage wildlife, showing the different Scottish habitats (woodland, woodland edge, upland, wetland and hedgerow) and incorporating a small kitchen garden compost demonstration area. There is a Willow Garden; a Xylophone made from a 40-year-old branch of a coppiced sycamore from a 300-year-old tree in the Cults Hill Wood in Fife; a mosaic ‘pond’ and a mosaic path; the Balfron Bench and the Wolf Stone. All of these have connections with the Stirling area.
The Friends of the Stirling Smith raised the original funds to create the garden and now share responsibility for its ongoing maintenance and development.
The garden is accessible during museum opening hours.