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Museums to visit in Scotland
- Save to ListA museum dedicated to the history of the Clan Cameron. With displays on the Jacobite rising of 1745, and military history of the Cameron Highlanders and Commando training during WW2. Read more...
- Save to ListOur magnificent 20,000 acre estate in south Skye offers an outstanding holiday experience – explore the historic gardens and woodland trails around Armadale Castle, learn about Highland history in our fascinating Museum of the Isles. Read more...
- Save to ListNo visit to Paisley Museum would be complete without a tour of Coats Observatory, which is also part of the Museum complex. The stunning building holds a vast range of telescopes for year-round stargazing, and a state of the art digital planetarium. Read more...
- Save to ListThe focus of the museum is the croft house, of a type reminiscent of a Western Isles blackhouse. The smoke rising from the central chimney, and possibly curling out from the doorway, gives a clue about one of the defining characteristics of life in this sort of house: the open hearth in the centre of the floor, on which a Read more...
- Save to ListIt is one of a trio of fascinating museums to be found in the unlikely setting of the northern part of Skye’s Duirinish peninsula. The others are Borreraig Park Museum and the Glendale Toy Museum. Together they form a triangle that gives good reason to head west from Dunvegan, even on a driech day. Read more...
- Save to ListThe museum tells the story of the Cumbernauld area from pre-history to the Romans and through to the development of the new town in the 1960s. Read more...
- Save to Listhe D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, University of Dundee, houses many fascinating specimens from around the world. Most of them were collected by the celebrated Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the first Professor of Biology at Dundee Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 1349 865366Dingwall Museum presents many local artefacts and fascinating tales of human exploits which are unique to Dingwall within a landmark building, once the centre of local government Read more...
- Save to ListThe historic Dunbar Town House, built towards the end of the 16th century, contains what is considered Scotland’s oldest functioning Council Chamber. The building is home to a museum and gallery with changing historical and art exhibitions as well as a local history display area and research room managed by Dunbar and District History Society. Open daily 1pm – 5pm Read more...
- Save to ListDunblane Museum tells the story of Dunblane and its people over the centuries, from a 4000-year-old necklace found buried locally to the magnificent medieval Dunblane Cathedral, to the people who have made Dunblane their home Read more...