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Highland Folk Museum

The Highland Folk Museum brings to life the domestic and working conditions of earlier Highland peoples. Visitors to this living history Museum can learn how our Scottish Highland ancestors lived, how they built their homes, how they tilled the soil and how they dressed, in a friendly and welcoming environment. An award winning visitor attraction, the Museum not only encapsulates human endeavour and development in Highland life from the 1700s to the present day, but offers an opportunity to explore a beautiful natural setting, home to red squirrels and tree creepers. A great day out for everyone! NO ENTRY CHARGE - DONATIONS WELCOME!! High Life Highland is a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No. SC407011 and is a registered Scottish charity No. SC042593
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Highland Folk Museum added 3 new photos.Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 5:30pm
WAY BACK WHEN'SDAYS

This week's post is from June 2000 when we opened our new visitor facilities, including our cafe and play park. Guests included Alastair Mackenzie, from the programme, Monarch of the Glen.

Also pictured is Graham Watson, one of our Heads of Service. We'd like to wish Graham all the best as he retires today from High Life Highland.
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Highland Folk Museum added 3 new photos.Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 5:30pm
WAY BACK WHEN'SDAYS

This week we are going back twenty-one years to 1997 when we received a clock and bicycle collection from Nairn that belonged to Alexander 'Alick' McIntyre. Alick was a bicycle repairer who, in the 1930s, built himself a shed at the bottom of his garden to carry out his hobby of horology (the study, construction and repair of clocks)

The collection was initially moved into one of two storage sheds that stood on the site where Am Fasgadh, our collections store, stands today and then moved up to the Clockmaker's Workshop when it was reconstructed in 1998.
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Highland Folk MuseumWednesday, December 5th, 2018 8:32am
WINTER'S MORNING

It's a tad chilly here this morning, -7°C degrees when we came in first thing!! Hope you are warm and toasty wherever you are today?
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Highland Folk MuseumFriday, November 30th, 2018 5:06pm
HAPPY ST ANDREW'S DAY

St Andrew is not only the patron saint of Scotland but also of textile workers (amongst many others!) so we thought it was very apt that today Marion, our weaver here at the museum, came along to help our Curators with a textile thread count.

We were contacted recently by an apprentice weaver from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA asking for information on one of the textiles in our collection. The piece of textile (known as hard tartan) dates from mid-18th century and as part of his research the weaver hopes to recreate this by hand dying, hand spinning and hand weaving a piece of fabric to make a kilt.

In the picture Marion is counting the threads, with a magnifying glass, so that a true recreation can be produced - hopefully they will send us a picture of the finished piece!
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Highland Folk Museum added 3 new photos.Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 5:09pm
WAY BACK WHEN'SDAYS

This winter we thought we would look back through our archive of pictures of the museum and its development. Today we are starting with a visit from the Historic Wheels Club on 21 May 2000. Vintage Day will be 7 years old next May but the Historic Wheels Club started the trend of historic vehicles visiting the museum long before then!

In the second photo you can see the Clockmaker's Workshop but the Joiners' Workshop and lots of our other buildings that we now have on site weren't yet in place back in 2000.
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High Life Highland is a company limited by guarantee registered in Scotland No. SC407011 and is a registered Scottish charity No. SC042593. Registered office 12/13 Ardross Street, Inverness IV3 5NS. Telephone: 01463 663800. Email: [email protected]

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