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Concorde at East Fortune.

Museums here are small, friendly and full of local stories, with one big exception. On a wartime airfield at East Fortune, the national collection of aircraft fills the old hangars, and you can walk right under the white delta wing of Concorde. In North Berwick, volunteers run a free museum of the town and its coastal villages, from seabirds to an old beach hut. In Dunbar, the 16th-century tolbooth with its witch's hat tower holds a free museum and gallery of the town's past. Give the airfield most of a day, and save the town museums for a wet afternoon.

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National Museum of Flight.

Scotland's aviation museum on a Second World War airfield at East Fortune, with more than 50 aircraft, Concorde among them.

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Coastal Communities Museum.

A free, volunteer-run museum in North Berwick, telling the story of the town and the coastal villages around it.

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