Over the past year we have continued to add to our collections with a variety of small but interesting deposits. These include the original plans for a Portree church built in 1895, a set of driving licences charting the international career of Broadford-born banker John MacLeod (1893-1988) and a collection of 16mm amateur films of Skye shot… Read more »Read more

Opening hours for the Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre over the holiday period: Friday 23 December 2016: 10am – 4pm Saturday 24 December 2016 – Tuesday 3 January 2017: CLOSED for Christmas holiday Wednesday 4 January 2017: CLOSED Thursday 5 January 2017: usual opening hours resume Season’s greetings to all our customers.Read more

(Above, Cameron Highlanders from Elgol) Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre is running a new 2-week block of classes as part of this autumn’s You Time programme.  Join us to find out more about ancestors who fought in the First World War. Costs for the two-week block are £11 (full price), £5.50 (60 years+), £1 (budget… Read more »Read more

To celebrate 5 years as a charity, High Life Highland is holding a series of events throughout its facilities during the month of October. Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre are hosting an Open Day on Thursday 13 October, with extended hours until 6.30 pm. Come along to the Archive Centre to browse through old photographs, rekindle… Read more »Read more

The Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre is participating in this year’s Highland Archaeology Festival Object Trail.  See how many historic objects you can view at venues throughout the Highlands between 1 and 16 October.  The person who visits the most objects will receive a £25 book token.  Remember to bring along your Museum Passport to be… Read more »Read more

The Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre will reopen to the public from Monday 22 August during our usual hours.  Following completion of refurbishment works in the Elgin Hostel, all collections have now returned and will be accessible as usual.  Access to the Archive Centre is via the round room entrance as before.Read more

Find your inner artist and help produce a big picture showing all your favourite animals! With inspiration from the archive collection of the Highland Biological Recording Group, who counted, drew and photographed whales, dolphins, bats, newts and other wildlife in the Highlands. Wednesday 27 July, 11 am to 1pm Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre, Elgin… Read more »Read more

(Above: Tana (Catriona) Finlayson pictured in Kyleakin, 1964.  Photograph by Joan Wilcock, SL/D110/8/12) Over the past year, the Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre has been working on a collaborative project with ATLAS Arts and the Kyleakin Local History Society to explore the Joan Wilcock Photographic Collection.  The collection of over four hundred 35 mm slides was… Read more »Read more

‘An Cogadh Mòr: Remembering the Great War in Skye in Lochalsh’ will be available to see at Aros, Portree, on the evening of Friday 11 December 2015.   The exhibition will be on display in the foyer during the launch of a new Gaelic film by Urras an Eilein, ‘Walking in the Footsteps of Heroes’.  The film begins at… Read more »Read more

An Cogadh Mòr: Remembering the Great War in Skye and Lochalsh. As part of our series of events commemorating the First World War from a local perspective, join us for a special one day conference on the ; Conference Programme 15th May 10am – 4.30pm Chair: Dr Neil MacGillivray Prof Ewen Cameron  – ‘The Highlands and Islands on… Read more »Read more