John Muir's Birthplace

John Muir's Birthplace, in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland, is a museum run by East Lothian Council Museums Service as a centre for study and interpretation of the work of the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir.

His father operated a successful grain and food store in the building as well, a business which he had inherited when his first wife died.

[1] The family emigrated to the United States in 1849, and Muir revisited Dunbar only once thereafter (in 1893), but kept in contact with relatives until his death in 1914.

A small museum was created in the upper flat of the redeveloped and restored building under a private/public partnership in 1980, opening the following year.

It then became the responsibility of East Lothian Council Museums Service, who now operate it for the present owner, the John Muir Birthplace Trust.