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Archives

Buteshire Archives
Live Argyll Archives
Manse Brae Area Office
Lochgilphead, Argyll PA31 8QU UK
Telephone: 01546 604778
Email: archives@liveargyll.co.uk
Website: Buteshire Archives

The Archives (records office) holds and preserves the official records of Argyll and Bute Council and also the records of the organisations whose functions the Council inherited. They tell the story of how Argyll and Bute has developed over the centuries and many contain the stories of individual people who lived here.

Libraries

Arran Library
Main Street
Brodick, Isle Of Arran KA27 8DL UK
Telephone: 01770 302835
Email: arranlibrary@north-ayrshire.gov.uk
Website: Arran Library
Website #2: Arran Library

Millport Library
Garrison House
The Garrison
Millport, Isle Of Cumbrae KA28 0DG UK
Telephone: 01475 530742
Email: millportlibrary@north-ayrshire.gov.uk
Website: Millport Library
Website #2: Millport Library

Rothesay Library
Stuart St
Rothesay, Isle of Bute PA20 0BX UK
Telephone: 01700 503266
Email: rothesaylibrary@liveargyll.co.uk
Website: Rothesay Library

Museums

Bute Museum
7 Stuart St
Rothesay, Isle of Bute PA20 0EP UK
Telephone: 01700 505067
Email: info.butemuseum@gmail.com
Website: Bute Museum

Isle of Arran Heritage Museum
Rosaburn
Brodick, Isle of Arran KA27 8DP UK
Telephone: 01770 302636
Email: info@arranmuseum.co.uk
Email #2: tom.macleod@arranmuseum.co.uk
Website: Isle of Arran Heritage Museum
Website #2: Isle of Arran Heritage Museum

Museum of the Cumbraes
Garrison House
College Street
Millport, Isle Of Cumbrae KA28 0DG UK
Telephone: 01475 464174
Email: naheritage@north-ayrshire.gov.uk
Website: Museum of the Cumbraes

For a long list of Bute museums, go to List of museums in Scotland in Wikipedia. Scroll down to Argyll and Bute and there will also be some that are now in North Ayrshire.