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Kingussie Museum

Here at the Kingussie site, the following may be experienced as part of your visit.

Pitmain Lodge: This building dating from the late 1700s houses:

  • Museum Reception & Shop
  • Two exhibition rooms 

In the first room there is a display about Dr Isabel Grant and examples of many of the items she collected.

In the second, there is a curator's choice display of some of the Museum's treasured items ranging from a 1840s tartan dress to a straw pony collar.

The Farm Museum: Within here is a varied selection of agricultural tools, implements and machinery including primitive pack pony harness, dairying equipment, barn and stable exhibits, a First World War 'Titan' tractor and what is believed to be the only surviving example of a mid 1800s Crosskill of Beverley Bell's reaper.

The Farming Annex: an open sided Museum store, this building contains many of the Museum's large collection of threshing machines, horse drawn vehicles and a showman's wagon.

The Museum's Store: Here parts of the Museum's reserve collections are open for visitor's to explore. Glass fronted cases and drawers contain a wide variety of hundreds of items including: dolls, weaponry, jewellery, ceramics, treen, packaging and much more.

The Smokehouse is a small corrugated iron building from the Fairburn Estate north of Inverness that was built about 1900 to smoke locally caught fish.

The Clackmill is a recreated grinding mill of a 'Norse' type incorporating a horizontal paddle system.The mechanism is original having been acquired from Bac on the Isle of Lewis by Dr. Grant in return for a donation to Stornoway Hospital.

The Blackhouse is a faithful recreation of a Western Isles building that was constructed by Dr Grant in 1944 with the assistance of a craftsman from Lewis. Interpreted for the later 1800s, visitor's can not only enter the building and see how it was used but also perhaps experience the 'reek' of a real peat fire.

In the Grounds there are other features including stone and metal 'stachle' (corn stack) stands; the remains of Dr Grant's 'Inverness-shire Cottage'.
Visitors can also relax in the picnic and garden areas.

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The Farm Museum at Kingussie

Museum Store at Kingussie

The Smokehouse at Kingussie

The Blackhouse at Kingussie
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