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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

Highland Folk MuseumThursday, November 21st, 2019 9:29pm

HELLO TO MOO!

Today is World Hello Day, so it's a big hello to all our followers, wherever you might be in the world!

Here are Lucky and Sprout (earlier in the season) who haved loved meeting all "their" visitors and saying hello to moo!!

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Highland Folk MuseumWednesday, November 20th, 2019 8:12pm

HOW DID WE DO?

We always try hard to make sure our visitors have a great time with us but we would love to hear about your visits to the Museum.

We would be grateful if you could complete our survey at https://tinyurl.com/wgv7brq

Thank you! 😊

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Highland Folk MuseumMonday, November 18th, 2019 9:48am

BRRRR!!

It's a beautiful frosty morning here at the museum but still -6°c at the moment!! Hope you are toasty warm wherever you are today?

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This week we also had a visit from Newtonmore Primary School who are studying World War Two this term. The children came to see items from our collection and to visit our wartime kitchen, where they learnt about rationing with Rachel, one of our curators.

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Highland Folk MuseumFriday, November 15th, 2019 5:06pm

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Last week we welcomed Shelagh Macpherson Noble and her husband Alastair. At the age of 18, Shelagh’s grandfather John Macpherson took over a small Inverness business from his uncle. He created a sporting emporium - John Macpherson & Sons Sporting Stores - which became a well-known and highly respected family business throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, until it closed in 1976.

John Macpherson was born in Newtonmore and was a keen shinty player. Entrepreneurial John saw a gap in the market for well made, standardised shinty sticks (camans) and in 1901 started to produce hickory sticks. The hickory was imported over from Virginia, coming to Inverness via Liverpool. John employed 2 or 3 caman makers to keep up with the demand, and John Macpherson Camans soon became the gold standard in shinty sticks.

Shelagh has very kindly donated two early 20th century Macpherson sticks to the museum (pictured here with Shelagh, alongside the Macpherson cup). One of these sticks was made by her grandfather John, and played with by her husband Alastair’s grandfather, William Noble.

The sporting business also provided supplies for shooting, hunting and fishing, and they employed a taxidermist, John Macdonald, known as “John the Stuffer”. When the shop eventually closed, some of the stock, tools and fittings were donated to Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. In recent years the collection moved over to the store here at Am Fasgadh. Shelagh was delighted to see the material from the shop (in particular the box of glass eyes!) and is pictured here with John the Stuffer’s desk.

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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: 01349 781700. Email: [email protected]

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