Wikipedia / List of museums in Scotland
Wikipedia / List of museums in Scotland
This list of museums in Scotland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Many other small historical displays are located in the country's stately homes, castles and public libraries.
Museums
Name | Image | Town/City | Council area | Region | Type | Summary |
Aberdeen City & Shire | Art | Website Opened in 1885 and holds work by important Scottish artists like Joan Eardley, Henry Raeburn and William Dyce, alongside contemporary collections and sculptures by Barbara Hepworth and Kenny Hunter. | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Maritime | Website The museum tells the story of the city’s connection with the sea. From early fishing through to the transition from North Sea Oil to green energy, the collection includes ship models, a lighthouse lens assembly and the entire deck of a historic steamer. | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Military | Website The museum tells the stories of regiment across its two-hundred-year history, through its collection of memorabilia, artefacts, and regimental silverware. A reconstructed Moffat Trench can be explored in the museum’s grounds. | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Website Built in 1545, this is the oldest surviving townhouse in Aberdeen. The house celebrates the lives of over 100 people from Aberdeen and the North-East including innovators, scientists, writers and stars of stage and screen. | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Prison | Website 17th-century gaol | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Agriculture | Website Within Aden Country Park, the museum recreates the experience of farming and agriculture in North East Scotland. Telling the history of the land and the people who farmed it. | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | History | website, rural trades displays and tools, household artifacts and room displays, farm equipment and tools, local Royal Ordnance Corps, Doric poet Charles Murray | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Maritime | website, development of Peterhead fishing boats, local history, Inuit artifacts, Arctic animals, whaling, coin collection, Mr. Arbuthnot's Exploration Gallery (Ethnography & Natural History), changing temporary exhibitions and hands-on fun stuff for all of the family. | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Multiple | Royal residence and summer retreat of Queen Elizabeth II, ballroom displays of art and decorative art, display of carriages, estate life, royal memorabilia, art gallery, gardens and grounds | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Local | website, features local history displays, including the life of musician and composer James Scott Skinner, and the town's connection to Royal Deeside. | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Local | website, local history, natural history, geology, silver, arms and armour | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Religious | Scotland's Catholic history and heritage | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | 18th-century castle, ancestral home and seat of Clan Farquharson | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by the Historic Scotland, 16th-century castle later used as a military garrison, reconstructed 1750 period barracks | ||||
Alford | Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 17th-century Scottish Baronial castle | |||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 16th-century pink castle, significant collection of portraits, Jacobean rooms, gardens and grounds | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | 16th-century castle and gardens | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 13th-century castle, 18th-century gardens | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Multiple | Website 18th-century country house with paintings and furniture in the care of the National Galleries of Scotland | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Maritime | website, maritime heritage, local history | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Technology | website, rural carpenter's workshop and tools | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, dates back to the 13th century, lavish Edwardian interiors, art collection, gardens | ||||
Alford | Aberdeen City & Shire | Transportation | Website The museum features collection items showcasing the history of transportation. Highlights include 19th-century travelling chariots to a 1980s Grampian Police Rover. | |||
Aberdeen City & Shire | History | Detailing the life of local author, Lewis Grassic Gibbon | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, Georgian Palladian house with late Victorian interior, painting collection, gardens | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval castle | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Local | |||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Toy | website, toy museum and shop, doll houses | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Maritime | website, maritime and local history of Gourdon | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Maritime | Historic lighthouse and exhibits of lighthouse technology and history | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Prison | |||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Mill | |||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Local | 16th-century stone building originally used as a courthouse and a prison, exhibits of local history | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Historic house | Operated by the Historic Scotland, 16th-century castle remains | ||||
Aberdeen City & Shire | Local | website local history and collection from the surrounding area | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Religious | website, Operated by Historic Scotland, visitor centre with artifacts from ruined medieval abbey | ||||
Arbroath | Angus & Dundee | Art | website Artwork from the Angus collections and touring exhibitions | |||
Angus & Dundee | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust for Scotland, birthplace home of Peter Pan playwright J M Barrie, adjacent cottage with Peter Pan memorabilia | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Mill | website, Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, restored watermill | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Local | website, local history, art | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Historic house | website, Operated by the Historic Scotland, ruined 16th-century castle with an early-17th-century walled garden | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Historic house | website, Childhood home of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, best known as the Queen Mother | ||||
Angus & Dundee | History | website, Period costumes, furniture, room settings | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Multiple | website Former art school containing art collection and archive of Patrick Allan Fraser | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Historic house | website, Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 18th-century family house, gardens, woodlands | ||||
Inglis Memorial Hall and Library | Angus & Dundee | Local | website Original Victorian library and exhibition on Lieutenant Colonel Robert William Inglis and his family | |||
Angus & Dundee | Local | website, local history, culture, natural history, archaeology | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Local | website, Local history, art, collection of Pictish stones | ||||
Montrose | Angus & Dundee | Military | website Located on site of former air station, history of RAF Montrose | |||
Montrose | Angus & Dundee | Multiple | website, Local history, archaeology, natural history, art, ethnography | |||
Angus & Dundee | Local | website, Local history, lighthouse, fishing and maritime history, textile industry | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Archaeology | website, operated by Historic Scotland, over 30 Pictish stones | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Art | website, studio and works by sculptor William Lamb | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic items | website, historical centre | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Art | website, multidisciplinary arts centre with gallery | ||||
Auchindrain Township Museum | Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Open-air | Turn-of-the-20th-century township | |||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Industry | website, operated by Historic Scotland, 18th-century charcoal-fuelled ironworks | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, island's archaeology, social and natural history | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | local history, culture, maritime heritage, Scotch whisky industry | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, Victorian period rooms, located in the upper floors of Castle Toward | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Religious | website, operated by Historic Scotland, life and work of St Columba and the religious community he founded on Iona in 563 | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Restored medieval castle with Edwardian period rooms | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, culture, slate industry, geology, maritime | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Early-20th-century house, interior and furnishings designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, founded by St Columba and his Irish followers in AD 563, one of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | information, local history, culture | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Seat of the Chief of Clan Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, 18th- and 19th-century castle with formal gardens | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Prison | 19th-century living history prison | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, culture, contains the archive of Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mor. | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Archaeology | website, history of the prehistoric stones found in Kilmartin Glen, area artefacts and excavations | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Victorian Gothic Revival mansion, gardens | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, culture of the Isle of Mull | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, culture, archaeology | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, fishing and maritime industries, railways and road transport, strategic role played by Oban during World War II | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, culture, natural history of the Ross of Mull peninsula | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | information, late-19th-century cottar's home | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Industry | website, slate industry of the Slate Islands, social history | ||||
Skerryvore Lighthouse Museum | Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Maritime | History and construction of the lighthouse | |||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | History | website, history blacksmith shop and craft shop | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | 19th-century Baronial house and garden | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, medieval tower house, collections of portraits, silver and furniture | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, 15th-century medieval castle tower house | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 16th-century house, home to Sir William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, who was instrumental in founding the colony of Nova Scotia | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | website, website, local history | ||||
Broughton House and Garden | Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | website, 18th-century town house, later home and studio early-20th-century artist Edward Atkinson Hornel, features collection of art, ceramics, furniture and literature | |||
Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a 13th-century triangular moated castle | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Art | website, contemporary art and craft | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | History | 16th-century tower house used as a home, a court, a prison, and as a military garrison | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Natural history | website, gemstones, crystals, minerals, rocks and fossils | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Military | website, history of the HM Factory, Gretna for Cordite manufacturing | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | Baroque country house with period furnishings, fine art and antiques, Victorian gardens | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | Local history, archaeology, natural history, camera obscura, housed in an 18th-century windmill | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Transportation | Located in a former RAF station, aircraft, military aviation history | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | Farmhouse where poet Robert Burns lived and worked, exhibits on his life and works, also farming exhibits | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Art | Scottish contemporary art, Scottish Colourists, Glasgow Boys, Kirkcudbright School | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | 18th-century-period birthplace of U.S. naval hero John Paul Jones | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | Located in the Old Moffat Bakehouse and focuses on local and family history | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Maritime | website, tours of the lighthouse and engine room | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Mining | website, mine tour, miners' cottages, beam engine, minerals | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | website, 17th-century house displaying home life in different periods | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Biographical | website, life and works of poet Robert Burns | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | website , 18th-century house where poet Robert Burns spent his last years | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | website, information, local history, mining, wool trade and knitting industry | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Monetary | , history of the first savings bank, early home savings boxes, coins and bank notes | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | Local history, natural history, prehistoric rock carvings | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | website, local history, archaeology, farming, dairying | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | information, local social and natural history | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 19th-century-period house with artefacts and displays about author Thomas Carlyle | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Art | |||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Religious | website, museum with stone grave markers of early Christians, remains of the 13th-century St Ninian's Chapel and priory, Saint Ninian's Cave | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Archaeology | website, archaeology and local history | ||||
Dumfries and Galloway | Local | information, local history, collection of early-18th-century bronze town weights and measures, 18th-century prison cell | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Local | Medieval castle housing local history museum | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Natural History | website Housed within the University of Dundee, contains the natural specimen collection of Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson who was the first professor of biology at Dundee. | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Maritime | website, Museum ship for polar explorations | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Art | Contemporary arts centre | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Transportation | website collection detailing the history of the local transport network | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Maritime | Sailing frigate museum ship | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Multiple | Fine and decorative art, natural history, local history, ethnographic artifacts | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Science | Scientific instruments, astronomy | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Design | Decorative arts and design | ||||
Angus & Dundee | Industry | Textile industry, jute and linen | ||||
Local | website, local history, industry, Mauchline Ware, Cumnock pottery, labour leader Keir Hardie | |||||
Biographical | information, life of author James Boswell | |||||
Biographical | website, information, artefacts and memorabilia of poet Robert Burns, who lived and worked in town between 1784 and 1788 | |||||
Historic house | Medieval castle with connections to important figures in Scottish history, features collections of arms & armour, historical musical instruments and tapestries, located in a country park | |||||
Multiple | Art, local and natural history, industry | |||||
Local | website, local history, coal mining, ironworks, social history, art gallery | |||||
Historic house | 18th-century Palladian country house with Thomas Chippendale furniture | |||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | website, local history, coal mining, iron industry | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | website, Scottish art | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Multiple | website, historic church with exhibit on author Nigel Tranter, adjacent centre with exhibits about the town's connections to the Flag of Scotland | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | History, heritage and culture of East Lothian coastal communities. website | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval castle, gardens | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | website, archaeology and local history | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, restored mansion designed by Robert Adam, gardens | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | Tells stories from across the region and displays many artefacts never seen before. website | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | House and life of conservationist John Muir | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Medieval fortress house, collections of portraits, furniture and porcelain | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | website, local history and community curated exhibitions | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Transportation | Cars, motorcycles, bicycles, motoring memorabilia and toy cars dating back to the turn of the 20th century | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Transportation | Includes military planes, passenger travel, a Concorde, Royal Air Force in World War II | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 17th-century villa with early-18th-century decorative art and collections, gardens and landscape | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Mill | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 18th-century watermill | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Industry | Remains from a 16th-century harbour, 17th-century glass works, 18th- and 19th-century potteries, 19th- and 20th-century coal mine and brick works | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a mid-14th-century fortress | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | website, changing exhibits of Scottish and international art, design, photography | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | In the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with Regency interiors, French furniture and porcelain | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Part of the National Gallery of Scotland, modern and contemporary art, Dada and Surrealist art and literature. Formerly known as the Dean Gallery. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Multiple | Includes tours of the historic medieval stronghold, the Honours of Scotland crown jewels, 18th-century prisoners of war exhibits, rooms of the Royal Palace, Royal Scots Regimental Museum, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Contemporary art gallery | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, late-18th-century Georgian townhouse with a fine collection of furniture, porcelain, silver and pictures | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 17th-century-period tenement house, also art gallery | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Official residence of the monarch in Scotland | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Medieval house, final home of Protestant reformer John Knox | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Sculpture Park | website Contemporary sculpture park set across 100 acres of meadow, woodland and five indoor gallery spaces. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | 19th-century mansion with Edwardian interiors, furniture and art, Japanese garden | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Toy | Toys, dolls, games, teddy bears, model trains, soldiers, tricycle, 1930s schoolroom | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | City history, culture, silver and porcelain | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Fire Service | website Museum dedicated to the history of fire fighting in Scotland. Collections include fire engines, safety and rescue equipment, and uniforms. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Monetary | Art, design, technology, crime, trade and security involving currency and money | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Run by National Galleries of Scotland, the National Gallery Building is one part of the overall site. Early Renaissance to 1900 and the national collection of Scottish art c. 1600 – c. 1900 | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Library | Changing exhibits of art, history and culture from its collections | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Multiple | Scotland's history, culture, natural history, industry, technology, science, decorative arts, personalities, sports | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Military | Located within Edinburgh Castle, uniforms, insignia and equipment, medals, decorations, weapons, paintings, ceramics and silverware covering over 400 years of Scotland's military history | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | website, information centre for the National Trust for Scotland, features collection of 20th-century Scottish paintings and Regency furniture | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | website, history, lives, work and leisure of the ordinary people of Edinburgh | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Exhibits from the Royal collection of art, located adjacent to the Palace of Holyroodhouse | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | website, local history, culture, natural history, transportation | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Run by National Galleries Scotland. Part of the Scottish National Gallery, changing exhibits | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Maritime | Museum ship, former Royal Yacht of the British royal family | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Part of National Galleries Scotland, modern and contemporary art | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Part of National Galleries Scotland, portraits of figures in Scottish history, photography | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Musical | Part of the University of Edinburgh, Concert room and musical instrument collection. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Medical | History of surgery since Roman times, dentistry, pathological anatomy, sports medicine | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Art | Part of the University of Edinburgh | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Maritime | Run by Historic Environment Scotland, former customs house, hospital and pilotage school, maritime objects | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Natural history | Visitor center exhibits about the river's wildlife and heritage | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Literary | Part of Museums and Galleries Edinburgh. Lives and work of Scotland's literary figures, including Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by Historic Environment Scotland, 15th-century fortress castle | ||||
Callendar House and Park Gallery | Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Multiple | Georgian-style mansion with living history interpreters, exhibits on the house, Scottish and area history, art exhibits | |||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, industry | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, 15th- to 17th-century house open on select days, grounds include the Kinneil Museum | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, located in the 17th-century stable block of Kinneil House, history of the park and house from Roman times to the present | ||||
Bo'ness | Argylle, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Railway | website, Scotland's largest railway museum, situated within the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, contains operational rolling stock | |||
Kingdom of Fife | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval castle and gardens | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Multiple | website, life of Andrew Carnegie, local history, art and decorative arts, costumes and textiles | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Natural history | website, part of the University of St Andrews, collection of natural history and zoology specimens, housed in the Bute Building | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website local history, fishing industry | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website formerly known as Burntisland Edwardian Fairground Museum, recreated walk through the sights and sounds of the town's fair in 1910 with rides and side shows, accessed via the library | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website, local history, maritime heritage, medieval church, airfield history | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 16th- to 17th-century furnished palace, study and townhouse with gardens | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains and artefacts of the medieval abbey, attached to Dunfermline Palace | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | Website. Operated by OnFife and attached to the Carnegie library. | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval royal palace, attached to Dunfermline Abbey | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 14th- to 15th-century royal palace and gardens | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website Local history, rural life, agriculture | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website, visitor centre with exhibits about the area's coastal history, natural history, geology, maritime heritage | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 20th-century mansion house and gardens designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, features French and Chippendale-style furniture, porcelain and paintings | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, medieval abbey | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Biographical | website, birthplace home and exhibits about John McDouall Stuart, explorer of Australia | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Photography | website, Over 3,000 cameras and many other items of photographic equipment and memorabilia, collected by the late Jim Matthew, and now owned and maintained by a charitable trust | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, restored medieval Scots Baronial castle and gardens, features Scottish furniture designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, exhibitions of life and work of sculptor Hew Lorimer | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Art | website Fine and decorative arts, holds the largest collection of paintings by William McTaggart and Scottish Colourist Samuel Peploe aside from the National Galleries of Scotland. Also contains a significant number of works by the Glasgow Boys. | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Technology | website, communications technology and artefacts, including early electronic devices, telegraphy, telephones, radio, television and information technology | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Multiple | website History of the university, exhibits of art, science, manuscripts and books from its collections, archaeology | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Sports | website History and memorabilia of golf | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Military | website, Cold War-era underground bunker for the government in case of a nuclear attack | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Maritime | Scottish fishing industry | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Transportation | website, buses and memorabilia | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of medieval cathedral, museum with medieval sculpture and other relics | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of medieval castle, includes dungeon, mine and counter-mine for siege warfare | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website Local history, culture | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Local | website, local history, period shop and business displays | ||||
Kingdom of Fife | Mill | |||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Military | website, regimental history of the No. 602 Squadron RAF, located in the headquarters of the Royal Highland Fusiliers | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | Collections include French Impressionists, late medieval art, Chinese and Islamic art, Ancient Civilizations | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | Arts centre with gallery | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Natural history | Covered fossilised grove of prehistoric trees | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | Website. Situated in a neoclassical, former merchant’s home in Glasgow City Centre. The gallery holds both a contemporary and modern art collection. Notable artist include Niki de Saint Phalle, Rabiya Choudhry, and Adrian Wiszniewski. | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Law enforcement | |||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | Artist-led centre with exhibitions | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | Features exhibitions across its four campuses | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Women's History | website The only accredited museum in the UK dedicated to women's lives, history and achievements. The museum contains a lending library and archive collections | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, mid-19th-century residential villa | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | Contemporary house based on designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Multiple | Operated by the University of Glasgow, art, Roman Scotland and archaeology, natural history, geology, ethnography, ancient Egypt, scientific instruments, coins and medals, medicine | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Multiple | Art, natural history, arms and armour, history | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | Architecture and design | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Music | Collection and history of bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, Irish uileann pipes, and traditional musical instruments | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | History | History of the people and city of Glasgow from 1750 to the end of the 20th century | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 18th-century house designed by William Adam, features collection of Spanish paintings including works by El Greco, Francisco Goya and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | 17th-century-period house | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Transportation | Opening in 2011, collections of the Glasgow Museum of Transport | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Military | , regimental history of the Royal Highland Fusiliers | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Education | History of education in Scotland from the late 19th to late 20th century | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Sports | Located at Hampden Park, also known as the Hampden Experience, history and memorabilia of football in Scotland | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | History | Based in Garnethill Synagogue, Scotland's oldest synagogue | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | |||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Art | Art and artefacts of religious life in Scotland | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Maritime | Three-masted barque museum ship | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, authentic 19th-century Glasgow tenement house with over 50 years of artefacts and household items | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Multiple | History and operations of the lighthouse, area geology, natural history and culture | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Archaeology | website, history of the brochs in Caithness, their construction, excavations and influence | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Local | website, local history, culture, archaeology, geology, industry, natural history and ecology | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Historic house | Seat of the Chief of the Clan MacKenzie, 17th-century castle with 19th-century renovations | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Historic house | Formerly Barrogill Castle, 16th-century castle with alterations over several centuries, holiday home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Nairn | Historic house | Castle built from the 15th to 19th centuries, known for its gardens and connection to William Shakespeare's play Macbeth | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Ethnic | History and heritage of Clan Cameron | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Ethnic | |||||
The Highlands – Badenoch and Strathspey | Ethnic | website, history and heritage of Clan Macpherson | ||||
The Highlands – Skye and Lochalsh | Historic house | 19th-century-period crofter's cottage | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Military | website, artefacts and memorabilia of the Commandos who trained nearby and at Achnacarry during World War II | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Inverness | Military | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, site and history of the Battle of Culloden, daily living history demonstrations | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Local | website, information, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Local | website, local history, culture, Dornoch Cathedral, Picts and Vikings | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Local | website, local history | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Historic house | Features 19th-century " French Renaissance meets Scots Baronial" style, formal gardens, museum displaying African wildlife trophy mounts, ethnographic artefacts, area archaeological relics including Pictish symbol stones and cross-slabs | ||||
The Highlands – Skye and Lochalsh | Historic house | Seat of the chief of the Clan MacLeod | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Local | website, local history, culture, natural history, agriculture, industry | ||||
The Highlands | Military | Operated by Historic Scotland, 18th-century fort still in use, displays of its history in different periods, memorabilia of different regiments | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Local | website Local history and archaeology, contains the Gairloch Pictish Stone, the first Pictish symbol stone found on the West Coast mainland of Scotland | ||||
The Highlands – Skye and Lochalsh | Biographical | information, life of natural giant Angus MacAskill | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Skye and Lochalsh | Toy | website, toys, games and dolls | ||||
The Highlands – Inverness | Local | website, local history, culture, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry heritage | ||||
The Highlands – Badenoch and Strathspey | Local | website, information, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Multiple | website, 15 carved Pictish stones, local history, Celtic art by George Bain | ||||
The Highlands – Badenoch and Strathspey | Open-air | site portrays aspects of 200 years of Highland rural life from the early 18th century to the mid-20th century | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Toys | Dolls, toys, games, children's costume and childhood furniture | ||||
The Highlands – Nairn | Military | Regimental artefacts of the Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) and Lovat Scouts | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Historic house | website, Run by the NTS, birthplace of 19th-century geologist Hugh Miller | ||||
The Highlands – Inverness | Multiple | Art, history and heritage of the Highlands, natural history, contemporary craft | ||||
The Highlands – Badenoch and Strathspey | Art | |||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Historic house | information, information, early-20th-century-period thatched Caithness longhouse incorporating dwelling, stable and byre under one roof | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Local | website, located in Lochaber, local history, culture, natural history | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Local | information, information, local history exhibits and gift shop | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Art | website, arts centre with exhibits gallery | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Multiple | website, also known as the Borreraig Park Museum, artefacts and heritage of MacCrimmons, pipers to the chiefs of Clan Macleod, exhibition of bagpipes, local social, agriculture and rural life history | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Local | website, local history, maritime heritage, fishing, culture, railway | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Historic house | website, website, 19th-century croft cottage with original fixtures and furnishings | ||||
The Highlands – Skye and Lochalsh | Ethnic | History and heritage of Clan Donald | ||||
The Highlands – Nairn | Local | website, local history, fishing industry, military, agriculture, social history | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Natural history | website, store and exhibition of rocks, minerals and fossils | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Natural history | website, website, area natural and local history, also known as Seadrift-Dunnet Visitor Centre | ||||
The Highlands – Skye and Lochalsh | Open-air | website, 19th-century-period township of thatched cottages depicting typical island crofting life | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Art | website, exhibits of art, photography, culture, crafts | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Local | website, history and artefacts of Clan Mackay, local social history, archaeology | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Art | website, located in the Thurso Library | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Local history | Local culture, Clan Ross, silverwork, locally relevant historic displays and artifacts: known locally as 'Tain Through Time' | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Local | website, local history, culture, Pictish stones and sculpture, medieval life and material culture | ||||
The Highlands – Sutherland | Multiple | website, recreations of a croft, byre, smithy and shop, displays on area archaeology, geology and natural history, art exhibits | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Natural history | website, geology display with simulated caves, caverns and mining scenes, exhibits of crystals, gemstones and fossils | ||||
The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
The Highlands – Inverness | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, medieval fortress castle ruins, visitor centre exhibits about its history | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Maritime | information, local herring fishing industry, geology, wildlife | ||||
The Highlands – Lochaber | Local | Local history, culture, natural history, geology, archaeology, Highland regiments | ||||
The Highlands – Caithness | Multiple | website, local history, early-20th-century-period rooms, historic photographs, civic regalia, Caithness Glass, Noss Head Lighthouse lens, herring fishing industry, art gallery | ||||
Mclean Museum and Art Gallery | Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Multiple | Art, natural history, world cultures, local history, archaeology, industry | |||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, 15th-century castle | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Fire and rescue | The Scottish Fire and Rescue Heritage Museum in Greenock is dedicated to the history of Scotland's fire and rescue service. It houses a wide range of artefacts and stories from the service's long history with displays on the history of firefighting, the development of fire safety in Scotland, and the history of the building. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | 18th-century Georgian mansion was designed by William Adam | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Mining | |||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | 19th-century Victorian baronial mansion | ||||
The Highlands | Historic house | |||||
The Highlands | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 19th-century Scottish Baronial mansion, fine art, antique furniture, porcelain | ||||
The Highlands | Local | website, local history, maritime heritage | ||||
The Highlands | Local | |||||
The Highlands | Multiple | website, local history, fossils, Pictish stones, Roman artifacts, archaeology, art, butterflies, eggs and shells | ||||
The Highlands | Multiple | website, local history, fishing industry, marine environment, natural history, historic icehouse | ||||
The Highlands | Local | website, local and social history, collection of gigs and carriages, reconstructed schoolroom and history of Alexander Milne | ||||
The Highlands | Local | information, maritime heritage, fishing, local history | ||||
The Highlands | Art | |||||
The Highlands | Automotive | website, veteran, vintage, classic cars, motorcycles, model cars, memorabilia | ||||
The Highlands | Multiple | website, natural history, geology and impact of the River Findhorn; Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan; model croft house | ||||
The Highlands | Local | website, local history, culture, reconstructed crofter's kitchen and village blacksmith's shop, natural history | ||||
Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, castle with eclectic collection of paintings, furniture, porcelain and silver, located on the Isle of Arran | |||||
Open-air | website, located on the Isle of Arran, buildings include a croft and smiddy, farmhouse, cottage, bothy, milk house, laundry, stable, coach house and harness room with exhibits of island agriculture, social history, archaeology and geology | |||||
Biographical | website, artefacts and memorabilia about poet Robert Burns | |||||
Local | Local and abbey history exhibits in the remaining tower of a medieval abbey | |||||
Local | website, local history | |||||
Masonic | Historic lodge and Masonic artefacts | |||||
Multiple | Historic Dalgarven watermill, museum with displays of rural life and trades including ploughing, threshing, harvesting and the village smithy, period room displays, costume collection | |||||
Local | information, information, island history, archaeology, culture, maritime heritage | |||||
Local | information, information, local history, archaeology, costume, transport, popular culture, maritime heritage | |||||
Maritime | website based in the Victorian linthouse and Irvine harbourside, contains Scottish maritime collections and large ships such as the MV Spartan | |||||
Art | information, gallery in the former flax mill where poet Robert Burns worked, included his lodging house | |||||
History | website, information, multi-media and living presentation of Viking history in Scotland | |||||
Local | website, local history, art | |||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | information, local history | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | information, local history | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | Multimedia display of local history, industry, Roman era, domestic life using talking figures and interactive interpretation | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Industry | Industry, technology, social impact of the Industrial Revolution, transportation and electric tramway, recreated mine and miners' cottages | ||||
Orkney | Mill | website, 19th-century watermill | ||||
Orkney | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval castle | ||||
Orkney | Archaeology | Operated by Historic Scotland, excavated Iron Age broch village and artefacts | ||||
Orkney | Agriculture | website 19th-century-period farmhouse and outbuildings, with peat fire, livestock, horse-drawn agriculture equipment | ||||
Orkney | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a 17th-century palace | ||||
Orkney | Military | Operated by Historic Scotland, Napoleonic War-era fort and battery | ||||
Orkney | Historic house | website 19th-century farmhouse and outbuildings, with peat-fired central hearth, stone beds and collection of farm tools | ||||
Orkney | Maritime | website History of the Longhope lifeboat station and crew | ||||
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn | Orkney | Archaeology | Operated by Historic Scotland, Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave, features Viking graffiti runes | |||
Orkney | Geological | website Fossil and geological exhibits on the local area | ||||
Orkney | Local | website, also known as the Tankerness House Museum, period rooms, local history, archaeology, Picts and Vikings | ||||
Orkney | Technology | website Collection of radio and wartime communications equipment, strategic and military importance of Orkney during World War II, history of radar | ||||
Orkney | Art | website Contemporary art gallery and museum, contains fine art collection of Margaret Gardiner | ||||
Orkney | Local | website Local history of the island of Sanday | ||||
Orkney | Military | website history of the naval anchorage in World Wars I and II, island history | ||||
Orkney | Historic house | website, 17th-century house with 1950s period furnishings on site dating back to the Iron Age | ||||
Orkney | Archaeology | Operated by Historic Scotland, excavated stone-built Neolithic settlement | ||||
Orkney | Multiple | website, maritime and natural history, local history | ||||
Orkney | Local | website Local history and archeology of the island of Westray, contains the neolithic Westray Stone | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Art | Arts centre with gallery | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | Website; archaeology, social, domestic and economic history of the Western Isles | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Multiple | Website, local history, culture, art | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Multiple | Website; local archaeology, social, domestic and economic history of South Uist, including a documents archive, photo collections, arts and craftwork | ||||
Perthshire | Local | website, local history, agriculture, social history | ||||
Perthshire | Medical | website, history of the Victorian spa hotel and the Hydropathic movement | ||||
Perthshire | Military | Located in Balhousie Castle, regimental uniforms, weapons, medals, regalia, artefacts, memorabilia | ||||
Perthshire | Multiple | Arts and community centre, features permanent exhibit on author Beatrix Potter, changing exhibits of art, photography and culture | ||||
Perthshire | Historic house | Home of the Clan Murray family, collections of fine pictures and furniture, arms and armour, porcelain, embroidery and lace, Masonic regalia, Jacobite relics | ||||
Perthshire | Historic house | Ancestral seat of the Clan Menzies, restored 16th-century castle | ||||
Perthshire | Ethnic | website, gift shop and Clan Donnachaidh history | ||||
Perthshire | Religious | Medieval cathedral, includes the Chapter House Museum with relics from monastic and medieval times and local history exhibits | ||||
Perthshire | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, 16th-century fortified mansion with three projecting towers | ||||
Perthshire | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, 15th- to 18th-century tower house | ||||
Perthshire | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval castle, located on an island in Loch Leven | ||||
Perthshire | Religious | Carved Pictish stones | ||||
Perthshire | Historic house | website, information, birthplace cottage of 18th-century poet Michael Bruce | ||||
Perthshire | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
Perthshire | Multiple | Art, local history, natural history, social history, ethnology, decorative arts including Perthshire glass and silver | ||||
Perthshire | Historic house | Early-19th-century Georgian Gothic style castle, state rooms feature collections of furniture, ceramics, ivories, and clocks | ||||
Perthshire | Archaeology | website, accurate full-size reconstruction of an Iron Age crannog (ancient loch-dwelling) and artefacts | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Science | Observatory with astronomical equipment and displays, weather and earthquake recording equipment | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Multiple | website, local history, fine and decorative art, natural history, Ancient Egyptian artefacts, textiles, industry | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Industry | website, portrays two weaver's workshops and cottages, one in the late 18th century and one in the mid-19th century | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Industry | website local textile industry and textile collections | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Industry | website, operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 18th-century-period weaver's cottage with original working looms and spinning wheels | ||||
Scottish Borders | Textile | website, costumes and fashion, area textile industries, textile arts and heritage | ||||
Scottish Borders | Local | website, local history, Coldstream Guards exhibit, art exhibits | ||||
Scottish Borders | Local | website, located in the Duns Library, local history and art exhibits | ||||
Scottish Borders | Local | website, local history, culture, maritime heritage | ||||
Scottish Borders | Multiple | website, recreated historic house and ironworker's shop, art, contemporary crafts and local history exhibits | ||||
Scottish Borders | Multiple | website, park with programs and exhibits of art, nature | ||||
Scottish Borders | Multiple | website, art, local history and culture, natural history, archaeology, displays on motorcycle champions Jimmie Guthrie and Steve Hislop, period schoolroom | ||||
Jedburgh Castle Jail and Museum | Scottish Borders | Prison | 1820s period prison and local history displays | |||
Scottish Borders | Sports | website, exploring the life and career of motor racing champion Jim Clark | ||||
Scottish Borders | Biographical | website, life of John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps and Governor General of Canada | ||||
Scottish Borders | Biographical | website, 16th-century tower house with artefacts and exhibits about the life of Mary, Queen of Scots | ||||
Scottish Borders | Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a large medieval abbey | ||||
Scottish Borders | Historic House | Website Home of Sir Walter Scott, chronicles the life and works of the notable Scottish author. | ||||
Scottish Borders | Local | Local history, art gallery, history of the house, culture | ||||
Scottish Borders | Historic house | 18th-century country house, features gallery of paintings from the National Galleries of Scotland | ||||
Scottish Borders | Media | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, historic print shop with printing press | ||||
Scottish Borders | Local | website, local history, spa town history, connections with Scottish writers Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg | ||||
Scottish Borders | Local | website, 19th-century Sheriff Court where author Sir Walter Scott dispensed justice to the people of Selkirkshire, exhibits on his life and works, as well as local poet and author James Hogg, explorer Mungo Park, local history and culture | ||||
Scottish Borders | Historic house | Mansion castle with paintings, furniture, porcelain, historic toys, Victorian kitchen, gardens | ||||
Scottish Borders | Archaeology | website, artefacts from the excavated Roman fort Trimontium | ||||
Scottish Borders | Multiple | Art, local history | ||||
Shetland | Local | website, local history, crafts | ||||
Shetland | Maritime | website Restored 18th-century Shetland fishing booth with displays of fishing and local businessman Arthur Anderson, also houses the Shetland Textile Working Museum | ||||
Shetland | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
Shetland | Military | website World War II artefacts and memorabilia, wartime life in Shetland | ||||
Shetland | Historic house | |||||
Shetland | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
Shetland | Multiple | Local history, natural history, art, archaeology, costumes and textiles, industry, transportation, maritime heritage | ||||
Shetland | Local | website local history, collection of old radios, fishing equipment, looms | ||||
Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement | Shetland | Archaeology | Operated by Historic Scotland, excavated site with Bronze Age, Iron Age, Pictish and Viking-age ruins, exhibits on the site's history, settlers and artefacts | |||
Shetland | Local | The Old Haa is a museum, garden and tearoom in the island of Yell in Shetland. The museum has a collection of historic objects, and an archive alongside a programme of temporary exhibitions on contemporary arts and crafts. The archive has a large sound and photographic collection, including over 16,000 images. | ||||
Shetland | Archaeology | Costumed guided tours of the excavated mediaeval, Viking, Pictish, and Bronze Age remains, replica Iron Age and Pictish buildings, crafts demonstrations | ||||
Shetland | Mill | website, restored 19th-century water mill with local history and agriculture exhibits | ||||
Shetland | Local | website, local history, culture | ||||
Shetland Museum and Archives | Shetland | Multiple | website Local history, maritime, social history and a nationally significant textile collection | |||
Shetland | Local | website local history, culture, social history | ||||
Shetland | Maritime | website collection of over 20 wooden boats, fishing gear, equipment, photographs | ||||
Shetland | Local | website, local history, archaeology, crafts, culture | ||||
Shetland | Art | 19th-century watermill, now a visual and applied art gallery operated by Shetland Arts | ||||
Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 17th-century thatched house where poet Robert Burns formed a debating club | |||||
Historic house | 18th-century birthplace of poet Robert Burns, part of the Burns National Heritage Park | |||||
Biographical | website, operated by the National Trust for Scotland, important sites associated with poet Robert Burns, planned museum to include the new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum | |||||
Historic house | Regency-era castle and gardens | |||||
Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval abbey | |||||
Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 18th-century stately house castle designed by Robert Adam | |||||
Historic house | Remains of a 14th-century royal fortified tower house built for Robert II on his accession to the throne of Scotland | |||||
Art | website, classic and contemporary art | |||||
Local | website, local history and artefacts | |||||
Art | website, also features the Ayrshire Yeomanry Museum | |||||
Historic house | website, operated by the National Trust for Scotland, thatched cottage containing shoe-making tools and Robert Burns-related artefacts | |||||
Literary | , part of the Burns National Heritage Park, multimedia presentation of Robert Burns' poem Tam o' Shanter | |||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Industry | |||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval castle | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | website, operated by the Biggar Museum Trust, open by appointment, home of poet Hugh MacDiarmid | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Biographical | Birthplace of Scottish icon David Livingstone, featuring stories and objects from 19th century Southern Africa, Scotland, and beyond. Exploring colonialism, slavery, empire, science, and the natural world. | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | History | website, operated by the Biggar Museum Trust, 14,000 years of history of Upper Clydesdale, late-19th- and early-20th-century-period shops and businesses, including a grocer, printer, bootmaker, bank, chemist | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Historic house | Childhood home of two 18th-century medical pioneers, William and John Hunter, exhibits on their lives and medical work | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | website, information, local history, culture, textile industry | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | website, local history, culture, industry, William Wallace, King Robert the Bruce | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | website The oldest subscription library in the British Isles, includes objects from local area and mines and the library collection | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Sculpture park | website The garden of artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, includes over 275 artworks by the artist, created in collaboration with numerous craftsmen and women | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Local | website, local history, culture, Cameronian (Scottish Rifles) Regiment, agriculture, textiles, mining, Victorian kitchen | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Agriculture | Formerly the Museum of Scottish Country Life, 1950s working farm, exhibits of rural room settings and oil paintings, agriculture models and machinery | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Open-air | Restored 19th-century textile mill village | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Military | Located in Stirling Castle, includes uniforms, weapons, medals, dioramas, regimental regalia and memorabilia | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, 17th-century townhouse adjacent to and included with admission to Stirling Castle | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Religious | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, history and site of a significant Scottish victory in the 14th-century Wars of Scottish Independence | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval Augustinian monastery | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, late-14th-century courtyard castle, used in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | website, local history, history and artefacts of Dunblane Cathedral | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Religious | Operated by Historic Scotland, remains of a medieval priory | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, preserved 19th-century cruck frame cottage | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | History | Tower monument with exhibits about 13th-century Scottish hero William Wallace | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Historic house | Operated by Historic Scotland, royal castle and fortress, includes Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum and Argyll's Lodging | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Prison | website, costumed guided tours and portrayals of the Victorian-era prison | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Multiple | Art, local history, social history, ethnography, women's history, natural history | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Art | website, art gallery of the Dalmuir Library | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Local | Local history, culture, shipbuilding industry, collection of sewing machines | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Automotive | website, vintage and classic cars, memorabilia | ||||
Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley | Maritime | website, site of the Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank, contains model ships and details of the Denny Brothers, builders of the famous Cutty-Sark | ||||
Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs | Technology | 150 feet (46 m) high cantilever crane used in the lifting of heavy equipment during the fitting-out of battleships and ocean liners | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | website, local history | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Archaeology | Operated by Historic Scotland, excavated Neolithic hill with reconstructed graves and visitor centre | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Website. Originally constructed as a stately Georgian home in the 18th century, Hopetoun House contains a collection which tells its story as the ancestral home of the Hope family. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Operated by the National Trust for Scotland, 17th-century house with mid-18th and early-19th-century additions, collection of porcelain, paintings and furniture, parklands | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Transportation | Website. Linlithgow Canal Museum recounts the history, construction and life around the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal. On display are tools and equipment from the canals as well as model boats. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Historic house | Website. Operated by Historic Scotland, ruins of a 15th-century manor palace, which was once a residence of the Stewarts and birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. | ||||
Edinburgh and Lothians | Local | Formerly the Linlithgow Story at Annet House Museum, the new Linlithgow Museum opened in Spring 2019 in the upper floor of the Partnership Centre, High Street, Linlithgow, featuring three galleries and a community space. Run by Linlithgow Heritage Trust. |
Defunct museums
Abbott House, Dunfermline, closed in 2015
Angus Folk Museum, Glamis, closed in 2017 due to structural issues, collections moved to House of Dun
Archaeolink Prehistory Park, Oyne, Aberdeenshire, closed in 2011
Alyth Museum, Alyth. Closed by Culture Perth and Kinross in 2024.
Birkhill Fireclay Mine
Brander Museum, Huntly
The Big Idea, Irvine, North Ayrshire, closed in 2003
Carnegie Inverurie Museum, Inverurie
Dunaskin Heritage Centre, Dalmellington
The Falconer Museum, Forres. Closed in 2022 by Moray Council.
The Fergusson Gallery, Perth. The collection was permanently moved to Perth Art Gallery
Garlogie Mill Power House, Garlogie
Glasgow Museum of Transport, closed in 2010, collections moving to the Riverside Museum
Glover House, closed in 2006
Heatherbank Museum of Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University, closed in 2004, collections now online only
Inveraray Maritime Heritage Museum, closed in 2017 after damage to pier and removal of Aortic Penguin puffer boat.
Inverkeithing Museum
Jane Welsh Carlyle House, Haddington, East Lothian
King's Museum, Aberdeen. Part of University of Aberdeen. Closed during COVID 19 Pandemic.
Lochwinnoch Community Museum
Marischal Museum, Aberdeen, closed in 2008, collection items now on display in the King's Museum.
Musselburgh Doll Museum, closed in 2014
National Museum of Costume, New Abbey, closed in 2013. Items from the costume collection are now on display in the Art and Design galleries of the National Museum of Scotland.
Newhaven Heritage Museum, Edinburgh, closed in 2007
Peterhead Maritime Heritage Centre, Peterhead, closed in 2010
Pictavia Visitor Centre, Brechin, closed 2014.
Pittencrieff House Museum, Dunfermline, collections now on display in the Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries
Springburn Museum, Springburn, Glasgow
Weaver's Cottage, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
World of Boats, Eyemouth, Owners Eyemouth International Sailing Craft Association (EISCA) entered liquidation in June 2017 and the collection was sold at auction in July 2017.
See also
Museums Galleries Scotland for a list of over 450 museums and galleries around Scotland
References
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