Hearts Heritage

The school holidays are almost here, and we're bringing back the kids special Summer Holiday Search Stadium Tour! Grab your bags, bring your gear, and hop on the Gorgie Express to get a memorable trip down Tynecastle. Our tour guides will have some surprises and many fun stories to tell. What are you waiting for?

Book your tickets here
https://www.universe.com/events/summer-special-tours-tickets-FY6KWH

Tynecastle Throwback Thursday 🏰❤

The official Hearts *1987 calendar* — action shots from Tynecastle straight from our collection, now digitised for everyone to enjoy.
Some things never change: the ground, the colours, the passion.

Another chapter in our Tales from Tynecastle 🫶


*Another test passed by some real Jambos — well spotted typo! 🫡
1987 had the exact same calendar year as the current 2026, starting on the same week day. So if you have one of these at home, put it to good use! 🇱🇻🇱🇻

Today we were honoured to welcome the daughter and granddaughters of Private Herbert Nisbet to Hearts Museum.

Together, they held Herbert's Victory and British War Medals, and the medals of his brother Cecil — a Death Penny, Victory Medal, and British War Medal, on loan from the Royal Scots Regimental Museum.

The Nisbet story is one of extraordinary family sacrifice. Herbert had four brothers; all five served in the Royal Scots, and three of them never came home. Cecil was so determined to join up that he lied about his age to enlist. They followed their beloved Hearts; and when the club answered the call, so did they.

This is what Hearts Heritage exists to preserve. Not just football, but the people who loved it. These objects belong to all of us — to every visitor who walks through our doors and discovers a piece of Edinburgh's history. But they belong especially to families like the Nisbets, who can hold them, feel the weight of them, and find their own story reflected back.

To Herbert's family: you are always welcome at Hearts Museum! 🤍❤

This Volunteers' Week, we want to take a moment to celebrate the incredible people who make Hearts Heritage what it is. ❤️👏

Every week, our volunteers show up — welcoming visitors from Edinburgh and beyond, sharing their passion for the club's history, caring for the collection, recording oral histories, tending the memorial garden, and representing Hearts out in the community. Always there in the quiet moments and in the busiest of hours.

Many of you have been with us since the very beginning, when the museum first opened its doors — and that means the world to us.

Without you, there simply would be no museum. We are so grateful for every single one of you. (And we promise we'll do better with the camera this year, Paul, Stewart and Kevin! 📸😅)

Thank you for a wonderful and exciting season — here's to the next one! 🤍⚽

ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴇᴀꜱᴛ ʟᴏᴛʜɪᴀɴ ʀᴏᴏᴛꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴄʜᴀᴍᴘɪᴏɴꜱ ᴏꜰ ꜱᴄᴏᴛʟᴀɴᴅ — ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ꜱᴛʀᴇᴛᴄʜᴇꜱ ꜰᴀʀ ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ.

There are traces of Hearts Women’s teams as far back as the 1990s, long before the modern era took shape in the 2000s and beyond. What began with Musselburgh Windsor’s women’s section in the mid-2000s became Hearts Ladies in 2009, before evolving into Hearts Women fully embedded within Hearts FC’s Academy structure in 2018.

Since then, the story has been built step by step — shaped not in one place, but across many. 🌎

This season’s squad reflects that wider picture: players developed and influenced across Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the USA, the Netherlands, Jamaica, and Portugal. At the heart of it all, Eva Olid 🇪🇸 — whose time at Hearts has now come to a close — leaves behind a clear legacy, with the work of the past two years culminating in a title-winning team. 👏

On the pitch, it all came together.

Fourth place going into the Championship Group. Six points behind Glasgow City. Seven wins from ten — including away victories at Glasgow City and Rangers. The momentum was unstoppable.

Final day. Defeat to Hibs. Didn't matter.
Rangers lost 6–0. The title was ours.

𝐒𝐖𝐏𝐋𝟏 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. ❤️🏆

For the women who came before anyone was watching.
For the squad who made history.
For every girl who'll wear this shirt next. 🤍

Well done and .olid ❤️

𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 – 𝐓𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

The old Gorgie Road terracing came down in 1997. In its place — 3,300 new seats, a brand new stand, a ground transformed. The final piece of a three-year rebuild that left Tynecastle unrecognisable.

Almost 20 years later, came Hearts Museum, nestled under the 'new' Gorgie Stand.

Our stadium (and our team) has been knocked down and rebuilt more times than we can count, and it's still standing — 140 years later, louder and closer to the pitch than ever. Proud of what we've built, proud of what we've become.

Can't wait for next season! 🤎

ʜᴇʀɪᴛᴀɢᴇ ɴᴇᴡꜱ

As reported in the press last week, damage occurred to the newly installed stonework at the Haymarket War Memorial when a dark fluid was spilled onto it. We are very grateful to supporters who reported this to the Club, and to the so that measures could be taken to repair the damage.

With thanks to FOH's Gary Halliday, and Steven Mason with the City of Edinburgh Council graffiti team, who reacted very quickly to assess and restore the stonework. All traces of the fluid have been removed from the stones, and the area has been sealed and re-pointed.

The stonework was installed in the summer of 2024 to further dignify the memorial, with thanks to funding from . With the same funding, Hearts commissioned a Conservation Management Plan, which denotes that the listed memorial (including newly laid stonework) is of considerable significance to Edinburgh, for its social, architectural and historical associations.

The Haymarket Memorial is the first of eight stops on the Maroon Mile heritage trail, supported by a free audio tour covering the history of Dalry, Gorgie, and Heart of Midlothian FC — you can find it on our Linktree!

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