The Nature Library
Founded in October 2019, The Nature Library is a library and reading space bringing stories of land, sky and sea to public spaces across Scotland. In spring 2024, The Nature Library opened a permanent premises in an old shipyard worker’s flat in Irvine, Ayrshire and in association with the Scottish Maritime Museum. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10-4, this new space offers public borrowing, free public workshops, author events and a dedicated children’s section.
With stories of conservation and climate justice, memoir and essays, fiction and field guides, poetry and many things in between, each book offers new routes of knowing, experiencing and caring for the natural world at a time when it needs our attention the most.
Arran Botanical Drinks, Cladach
COAST Discovery Centre, Lamlash
CILIPS Scotland Annual Conference, Apex Hotel, Dundee
Birnam Arts, Birnam
John Muir’s Birthplace, Dunbar
Eston Arts Centre, Eston
Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh
The John Muir Trust Wild Space, Pitlochry
The Project Cafe, Glasgow
Civic House, Glasgow
Previous locations:
The Seabird Centre, North Berwick
CCA, Glasgow (as part of Take One Action Film Festival)
Scottish Opera Production Studios, Glasgow
Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, Lochmaddy (as part of On Sonorous Seas exhibition)
Glencairn Midsummer Gathering, Moniaive
Narture Cafe, Ayr
The Rockfield Centre, Oban (as part of Argyll Hope Spot exhibition)
Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (as part of On Sonorous Seas exhibition)
Ullapool Ferry Terminal, Ullapool
Press and Articles
Make Space for Nature Podcast — NatureScot
The Nature Library goes on tour — Scots Magazine
CILIPS Go Green x The Nature LibraryGlasgow Women’s Library Open the Door Podcast
'The seemingly simple act of taking the time to read some of these books is a form of activism' - List.co.uk
Wild Words: Rewilding the library - JohnMuirTrust.org.uk
The Nature Library - ScotsMagazine.co.uk
MUCK x The Nature Library: Field Notes on Adrift-ness Workshop - ShonaRobin.com
Land, sky and sea: Christina Riley’s Nature Library - gallassscot.wordpress.com
