Abbotsford
Melrose
The Dream Home of Sir Walter Scott — Writer, Visionary and Father of the Historical Novel
Museums in Scotland
535 museums
Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Aberdeen
Discover Aberdeen's seafaring heritage from clipper ships to oil rigs
Aberdeenshire Farming Museum
Mintlaw
The Story of Farming in North-East Scotland, in the Heart of Buchan
Aberlemno Sculptured Stones
Angus
Four magnificent Pictish symbol stones in their original settings, including the famous battle scene at Aberlemno churchyard
Alloa Tower
Alloa
Scotland's largest medieval tower — home to Mary Queen of Scots and the infant James VI
Almond Valley Heritage Centre
Livingston
Where Scotland's farming past meets its industrial heritage
An Iodhlann / Tiree Historical Centre
Tiree
Tiree's community archive of Gaelic culture, crofting, and island history on the sunniest and flattest of the Inner Hebrides
Anatomical Museum
Edinburgh
Robert Rowand Anderson's 1874 anatomy theatre, still teaching medical students today
Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
Dunfermline
From Dunfermline weaver's cottage to global philanthropist
Applecross Heritage Centre
Applecross
Crofting, sanctuary, and survival on one of Scotland's most remote peninsulas
Arbroath Art Gallery
Arbroath
Angus Council's civic art collection, including two Bruegel the Younger paintings, within Arbroath Library
Arbroath Museum
Arbroath
Bell Rock lighthouse heritage and Arbroath's maritime story in the historic Signal Tower
Arctic Convoy Museum
Loch Ewe
Commemorating Loch Ewe's role as an assembly point for the Arctic Convoys — Churchill's 'worst journey in the world'
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse Visitor Centre
Ardnamurchan
Lighthouse history, whale-watching waters, and the geology of the most westerly point on the British mainland
Armadale Community Museum
Armadale
Scotland's pioneering shale oil industry and the bings of West Lothian
Aros An Rubha
Point
The Point Historical Society's community archive and museum on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis
Art Collection University of Stirling
Stirling
One of Scotland's finest contemporary art collections, woven into campus life since 1967
Ashworth Laboratories Natural History Collections (Aubrey Manning Gallery)
Edinburgh
Three centuries of Edinburgh's zoological and natural history collections, centred on the Aubrey Manning Gallery
Atholl Country Life Museum
Blair Atholl
Everyday farming and estate life in Highland Perthshire, in the shadow of Blair Castle and the Atholl Estate
Atlantic Islands Centre
Isle of Luing
A modern community-built centre telling the story of the Slate Islands' quarrying heritage and Atlantic natural history
Auchindrain Museum
Auchindrain
Scotland's only original West Highland township — unchanged, uncleared, unforgotten
Auld Kirk Museum
Kirkintilloch
Kirkintilloch's heritage in a historic church — from Roman frontier to canal-side industry
Ballogie Soutar's Shop
Aboyne
Scotland's only surviving intact rural shoemaker's workshop, untouched since 1941
Balvenie Castle
Dufftown
Comyn stronghold to Renaissance lodging — one of north-east Scotland's most historically layered castle ruins
Bannockburn Heritage Centre
Stirling
Where Scotland won its freedom — Robert the Bruce's greatest victory
Barnton Bunker
Edinburgh
Scotland's largest Cold War nuclear bunker, from RAF radar station to Regional Seat of Government
Barra Heritage and Cultural Centre (Dualchas)
Barra
An island community's own record of Gaelic culture, crofting life, and Barra's history, gathered and preserved by local hands
Barry Mill
Barry
A working eighteenth-century watermill near Barry, Angus, demonstrating traditional Scottish oatmeal milling
Battle of Prestonpans Museum
Prestonpans
The dramatic 1745 Jacobite victory at Prestonpans, and its lasting place in Scottish memory
Beith Cultural and Heritage Society
Beith
Scotland's furniture-making town: cabinet-making heritage in North Ayrshire
Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum
Biggar
Deep history of the Upper Clydesdale valley — from Bronze Age to the Covenanters and beyond
Biggar Gasworks Museum
Biggar
Scotland's only surviving complete Victorian coal gasworks, preserving 134 years of gas production history in a uniquely intact industrial complex
Black Watch Regimental Museum
Perth
Am Freiceadan Dubh — The Black Watch, Three Centuries of Highland Service
Blackness Castle
Linlithgow
The ship that never sailed — a dramatic 15th-century coastal fortress on the Firth of Forth
Blackridge Community Museum
Blackridge
The story of the world's first commercial oil industry, told from the heart of shale country
Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway
Bo'ness
Scotland's finest steam railway — four miles of heritage on the Firth of Forth
Bonawe Historic Iron Furnace
Taynuilt
One of Britain's most complete surviving charcoal ironworks, set dramatically on the shores of Loch Etive
Borders Textile Towerhouse
Hawick
From Borders sheep to global luxury — the extraordinary story of Hawick cashmere and knitwear
Bowhill House
Selkirk
The Duke of Buccleuch's Borders seat, with French furniture, Old Master paintings and Sir Walter Scott connections
Braemar Castle
Braemar
Cairngorms castle where clan history, Jacobite rebellion, and community heritage converge
Braemar Highland Games Centre
Braemar
The Braemar Gathering: Highland Games history and royal patronage
Brechin Museum
Brechin
History of the city of the Round Tower — gateway to Angus's Pictish heartland
Bressay Heritage Centre
Bressay
The story of Bressay Sound, Shetland's herring fishery, and island life just a short ferry ride from Lerwick
Bridgeton Bus Garage
Bridgeton, Glasgow
Glasgow's last Corporation bus garage, home to the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust's historic fleet
Broch of Gurness
Evie
An extraordinary Iron Age broch complex on the Orkney coast, with Viking burial discoveries and sweeping views across Eynhallow Sound
Brodick Castle, Garden and Country Park
Brodick
A Highland castle with spectacular gardens on the Isle of Arran
Brora Heritage Centre
Brora
The only Highland coal mine, salt panning and woollen mill heritage of Brora
Broughty Castle
Dundee
15th-century Tay estuary fortress turned free museum — Dundee's whaling history, arms and armour, and panoramic Tay views
Broxburn Community Museum
Broxburn
Where the World's First Oil Industry Was Born — Scotland's Shale Heritage
Buckie and District Heritage Centre
Buckie
Herring, boatbuilding, and community life on the Moray coast
Burns House Museum
Mauchline
Robert Burns' first marital home — where Scotland's national poet began his family life with Jean Armour
Burntisland Museum
Burntisland
Scotland's first post-Reformation church, ancient fair, and Firth of Forth ferry town
Caerlaverock Castle
Dumfries
Scotland's unique triangular castle - siege warfare, heraldry, and barnacle geese
Cairnpapple Hill
Bathgate
Descend into Scotland's prehistoric past — a Neolithic henge and Bronze Age cairn with panoramic Central Belt views
Caithness Horizons
Thurso
At the Edge of Britain — Fossils, Vikings, Brochs, and Dounreay on the Caithness Horizon
Callendar House
Falkirk
A grand French chateau-style house at the heart of 600 years of Scottish history
Campbeltown Museum
Campbeltown
At the Foot of Kintyre — Whisky, Fishing, and the Story of a Remarkable Town
Carnasserie Castle
Kilmartin
The tower of the man who first printed Scottish Gaelic — in the heart of prehistoric Kilmartin Glen
Castle Campbell
Dollar
Dramatic clifftop castle — formerly Castle Gloom — the Campbell earls' lowland stronghold
Castle Douglas Art Gallery
Castle Douglas
Scottish Art in the Heart of Galloway — Scotland's Food Town
Castle Fraser
Inverurie
One of Scotland's Grandest Tower Houses — A Masterpiece of Z-Plan Architecture
Castle Menzies
Aberfeldy
Clan Menzies' Z-plan tower house — Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1746 lodging beneath Weem Rock
Castle of Mey
Thurso
The Queen Mother's Caithness home, the most northerly inhabited castle on the British mainland
Castle of Old Wick
Wick
The "Old Man of Wick" — one of Scotland's oldest stone castles on a wild Caithness cliff promontory
Castle of St John Heritage Centre
Stranraer
A sixteenth-century tower house: garrison, prison, and Covenanter history in Stranraer
Castle Sween
Lochgilphead
The oldest stone castle on the Scottish mainland — an 11th-century Argyll fortress on the shore of Loch Sween
Castlehill Heritage Centre
Castletown
The story of Caithness flagstone — a globally traded paving stone quarried and shipped from this small Highland harbour
Cawdor Castle
Nairn
The legendary Macbeth castle — a 14th-century fortress still lived in by the Cawdor family
Centre for Research Collections
Edinburgh
Rare books, manuscripts and centuries of university history at the heart of Edinburgh's Main Library
Clan Cameron Museum
Spean Bridge
The seat of Clan Cameron — Jacobite history and the Second World War birthplace of the British Commandos
Clan Donnachaidh Museum
Struan
The history and genealogy of Clan Donnachaidh in the heart of Perthshire
Clava Cairns
Inverness
Four thousand years of prehistory: Scotland's finest chambered cairn complex, free to visit
Cleadale Crofting Museum
Isle of Eigg
A restored croft house preserving everyday crofting life on the Isle of Eigg, home to one of Scotland's most celebrated community land buyouts
Clydebank Museum
Clydebank
The story of the town that built the world's greatest ships — and survived the Blitz
Coastal Communities Museum
North Berwick
From fishing harbour to Victorian seaside resort on the Firth of Forth
Cockburn Geological Museum
Edinburgh
Scotland's university geology collection at the heart of Earth sciences
Coldstream Museum
Coldstream
Where the Coldstream Guards were born — Border history, military legend, and the story of the Tweed crossing
Colonsay and Oronsay Heritage Centre
Colonsay
Prehistoric shell middens, a medieval priory, and the story of one of Scotland's smallest island communities
Colzium Museum
Kilsyth
History, battle and industrial heritage within Kilsyth's historic country estate
Commendator's House Museum
Melrose
Medieval carved masterpieces from one of Scotland's finest abbey ruins
Comunn Eachdraidh Nis
Ness, Isle of Lewis
The Ness Historical Society at the top of Lewis, in the old Cross School at North Dell
Corrigall Farm Museum
Harray
A preserved Victorian Orkney farmstead — life in the islands before the age of machines
Corstorphine Heritage Centre
Edinburgh
A village swallowed by the city: Corstorphine's independent history
Cousland Smiddy
Cousland
A Midlothian village forge worked continuously since at least 1703, still fired by a farrier on open days
Craigievar Castle
Alford
Scotland's fairy-tale pink tower house — a perfectly preserved L-plan castle of 1626
Craigmillar Castle
Edinburgh
Edinburgh's other castle — Mary Queen of Scots' refuge and the scene of royal conspiracy
Craignethan Castle
Lanark
Home of Britain's only caponier — a masterpiece of Renaissance military engineering
Crathes Castle
Banchory
Painted ceilings, 700-year family history and Scotland's finest yew-hedged gardens on Royal Deeside
Crawfordjohn Heritage Venture
Crawfordjohn
Curling stone quarrying and upland farming in South Lanarkshire
Crichton Castle
Pathhead
Scotland's most surprising architectural discovery — a Renaissance Italian courtyard in rural Midlothian
Cromarty Courthouse Museum
Cromarty
Justice, Geology, and Highland Heritage at the Tip of the Black Isle
Crossraguel Abbey
Maybole
Scotland's most complete Cluniac monastery — eight centuries of Ayrshire faith and drama
Cruck Cottage
Torthorwald
The last surviving cruck-framed thatched cottage of its kind near Torthorwald, Dumfries and Galloway
Culloden Battlefield
Inverness
Culloden Moor, a bleak stretch of heather moorland five miles east of Inverness, is the most emotionally charged landscape in Scotland. On 16 April 1746, in…
Culross Palace
Culross
Painted Ceilings, Period Gardens, and Scotland's Best-Preserved Historic Village
Cultybraggan Camp Museum
Comrie
A Second World War POW camp and Cold War bunker, now in community hands
Culzean Castle and Country Park
Maybole
Robert Adam's clifftop masterpiece — Scotland's most popular castle
Cumbernauld Museum
Cumbernauld
Old Village, New Town — The Story of a Planned Community on the Lanarkshire Hills
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum
Dundee
Zoological specimens and the legacy of Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Dalbeattie Museum
Dalbeattie
The story of Dalbeattie's granite quarrying industry, which built Scotland's 'Great Georgian Granite Town'
Dalgarven Mill
Dalry
A working Victorian watermill and Scotland's finest collection of Ayrshire costume, country life, and lace
Dalkeith Museum
Dalkeith
Coal, aristocracy and community — the layered story of Midlothian's county town
Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery
Forres
Scotland's only complete preserved Victorian distillery — a time capsule of Scotch whisky heritage
David Livingstone Centre
Blantyre
From cotton mill to the heart of Africa — birthplace of a Victorian legend
Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank
Dumbarton
The world's first commercial ship model experiment tank, built by William Denny and Brothers in 1882
Dick Institute Museum and Art Gallery
Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock's gift of art, nature, and heritage since 1901
Dingwall Museum
Dingwall
Viking assembly town on the Cromarty Firth — the Norse, Gaelic, and Highland heritage of Ross-shire's county capital
Dirleton Castle
Dirleton
Dirleton Castle occupies the edge of the village green in one of the most picturesque villages in Scotland, surrounded by formal gardens and enclosed by a…
Discovery Point (RRS Discovery)
Dundee
Step aboard Captain Scott's legendary Antarctic expedition ship
Dovecot Studios
Edinburgh
Scotland's leading tapestry studio, where visitors can watch weavers at work
Dryburgh Abbey
St Boswells
The burial place of Sir Walter Scott, set in a sublime loop of the River Tweed among ancient cedars — the most romantically situated of Scotland's great Border abbeys
Drum Castle, Garden and Estate
Drumoak
Seven centuries of Scottish history in one extraordinary estate
Duff House
Banff
William Adam's masterpiece on the Aberdeenshire coast — a country house gallery from the National Galleries of Scotland
Dumbarton Castle
Dumbarton
The Rock of the Britons — stronghold of an ancient kingdom, fortress of Mary Queen of Scots
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
Dumfries
Scotland's wartime skies, preserved in RAF Dumfries's original operations block
Dumfries House
Cumnock
Dumfries House stands in 2,000 acres of Ayrshire parkland near the town of Cumnock, and its survival as an intact Georgian treasure house is a story of modern…
Dunbar Town House Museum
Dunbar
Dunbar's history inside one of Scotland's oldest surviving town houses
Dunbeath Heritage Museum
Dunbeath
Caithness archaeology and the Neil Gunn collection, in the old school the novelist attended as a boy
Dunblane Museum
Dunblane
4,000 years of Dunblane's history, from Bronze Age burials to Wimbledon champions, beside the medieval cathedral
Dundonald Castle
Dundonald
Royal stronghold of the first Stewart kings — Robert II and Robert III held court and died at this Ayrshire hilltop fortress
Dundrennan Abbey
Dundrennan
Where Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night in Scotland — an Early Gothic masterpiece in the Galloway hills
Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries
Dunfermline
Andrew Carnegie's gift to his birthplace - culture, heritage, and learning
Dunkeld Cathedral Chapter House Museum
Dunkeld
Inside Dunkeld Cathedral's 1457 Chapter House, later the Atholl family mausoleum, beside the River Tay
Dunollie Museum, Castle and Grounds
Oban
The ancestral seat of Clan MacDougall, on a dramatic clifftop above Oban Bay
Dunstaffnage Castle
Oban
Argyll's ancient sea-fortress — Flora MacDonald's imprisonment and legends of the Stone of Destiny
Duntulm Castle
Staffin
Clifftop seat of the MacDonald Lords of the Isles — dramatic Skye headland and vast sea views
Dunvegan Castle
Dunvegan
Scotland's oldest continuously inhabited castle — 800 years in Clan MacLeod hands
Easdale Island Folk Museum
Isle of Easdale
The story of a slate-quarrying island community devastated by the Great Storm of 1881, told from Easdale itself
Edinburgh Printmakers
Edinburgh
Scotland's oldest open-access print studio and a leading contemporary print gallery, based in the converted Castle Mills building on the Union Canal
Eyemouth Museum
Eyemouth
The Eyemouth Tapestry and the story of Black Friday 1881, in the town's Auld Kirk
Elcho Castle
Perth
Scotland's most complete 16th-century tower house — original iron yett, fireplaces, and four stair towers
Elgin Museum
Elgin
One of Scotland's oldest independent museums — world-class Permian reptile fossils in a beautiful 1842 Italianate building
Ellisland Museum and Farm
Dumfries
Robert Burns's farm on the River Nith, where he wrote Tam o' Shanter and Auld Lang Syne
Fairfield Heritage
Glasgow
The story of Govan's shipbuilding heritage, told inside the Fairfield shipyard's original Victorian offices
Falkirk Museums — Callendar House
Falkirk
History, heritage, and hands-on discovery in a Scottish palace
Falkland Palace
Falkland
Renaissance jewel of the Stuart monarchs — where Mary Queen of Scots came to rest
Ferryhill Railway Heritage Centre
Aberdeen
Aberdeen's last railway turntable, restored by volunteers and still essential to steam excursions today
Fetlar Interpretive Centre
Fetlar
Folklore, crofting and community history on Fetlar, one of Shetland's smallest inhabited islands
Fife Folk Museum
Ceres
Seven centuries of Fife life — in Scotland's most beautiful conservation village
Findhorn Heritage Centre and Ice House
Findhorn, Forres
Findhorn village's history and its atmospheric 150-year-old salmon ice house, on the Moray coast
Finlaggan Information Centre
Isle of Islay
Seat of the medieval Lordship of the Isles, on an island in Loch Finlaggan, Islay
Fyvie Castle
Turriff
One of Scotland's most magnificent baronial castles, with a legendary history and outstanding portrait collection
Fochabers Folk Museum and Heritage Centre
Fochabers
An eclectic volunteer-run social history collection in the planned village of Fochabers, Moray
Fort George
Ardersier
Fort George stands on a promontory jutting into the Moray Firth near Ardersier, twelve miles north-east of Inverness, and represents the most spectacular and…
Forth Bridge Heritage Centre
North Queensferry
Telling the story of the UNESCO World Heritage Forth Bridge, directly beneath its cantilevers at North Queensferry
Gairloch Heritage Museum
Gairloch
Scottish Museum of the Year — celebrating 5,000 years of Highland life on the shores of Wester Ross
Gallery of Modern Art
Glasgow
The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is Glasgow's contemporary art museum housed in one of the city's finest neoclassical buildings in the heart of Royal Exchange…
Garioch Heritage Centre
Inverurie
The history of the Garioch district, housed in Inverurie's former Locomotive Works
George Waterston Memorial Museum
Fair Isle
Fair Isle's story of Norse settlement, world-famous bird migration and traditional knitting, in the island's former school
Gladstone's Land
Edinburgh
Step into 17th-century Edinburgh - a tenement time capsule on the Royal Mile
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow
The only medieval cathedral on the Scottish mainland to survive the Reformation intact
Glasgow Print Studio
Glasgow
Contemporary printmaking, studio access, and gallery exhibitions in Glasgow's Trongate
Glasgow Royal Infirmary Museum
Glasgow
Scotland's only medical museum inside a working hospital, telling the story of Lister's antiseptic surgery
Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's architectural masterpiece — a defining work of world art and design heritage
Glasgow Science Centre
Glasgow
Glasgow Science Centre is Scotland's flagship science engagement venue, offering an extraordinary interactive experience that makes science accessible,…
Glasgow Women's Library
Glasgow
The UK's only Accredited Museum dedicated to women's history, in a Carnegie library in Glasgow's East End
Glencoe Folk Museum
Glencoe
The Massacre of Glencoe and Highland crofting life, in two historic thatched cottages — currently closed for major redevelopment, reopening spring 2027
Glenesk Folk Museum
Tarfside
30,000 objects telling the story of rural Angus glen life from the Bronze Age to the mid-20th century
Glenfinnan Station Museum
Glenfinnan
The history of the West Highland Railway, at the station beside the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct
Glenluce Abbey
Glenluce
A Cistercian treasure in the Wigtownshire hills — with Scotland's finest medieval chapter house
Govan Stones
Glasgow
One of Britain's most significant collections of early medieval carved stones, inside a historic Govan church
Govanhill Baths Archives and Exhibition Space
Govanhill, Glasgow
The archive of Glasgow's 'Save Our Pool' campaign, in a former Edwardian public bathhouse turned community heritage site
Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum
Edinburgh
The material history of Scottish Freemasonry, inside Edinburgh's Freemasons' Hall
Grangemouth Heritage Trust
Grangemouth
Preserving the industrial and social history of Grangemouth, Scotland's purpose-built port and petrochemical town
Grantown Museum
Grantown-on-spey
The story of Sir James Grant's planned Highland town and the Strathspey it shaped
Greyfriars Kirk Museum
Edinburgh
The National Covenant, Greyfriars Bobby and Scotland's first post-Reformation church, in Edinburgh's Old Town
Grimsay Boat Haven and Grimsay Archive
Grimsay
The Western Isles' only dedicated maritime museum, preserving Grimsay's boatbuilding and fishing heritage
Groam House Museum
Rosemarkie
Pictish stones, Celtic art, and the Black Isle's early medieval heritage
Haddo House
Methlick
Scotland's finest Adam mansion — home of Prime Ministers and a living arts tradition
Hailes Castle
East Linton
A beautifully situated 13th-century castle on the River Tyne, once held by the earls of Bothwell and intimately connected with Mary Queen of Scots
Halliwell's House Museum
Selkirk
Selkirk's local history museum, in the town's oldest surviving row of dwellings
Hawick Museum
Hawick
Hawick's knitwear and hosiery heritage, at Wilton Lodge Park, with the adjoining Scott Art Gallery
Heriot-Watt University Museum and Archive
Edinburgh
Heriot-Watt University's history and the textile heritage of southern Scotland, at the Cameron Smail Library
Hermitage Castle
Newcastleton
Scotland's most forbidding Border fortress — legends of dark magic, murder, and Mary Queen of Scots
Hibernian FC Historical Museum
Edinburgh
Hibernian FC's 150th-anniversary visitor centre at Easter Road, telling the club's story from 1875 to the present
Highland Museum of Childhood
Strathpeffer
Childhood in the Scottish Highlands remembered in a beautiful Victorian spa-town railway station
History of Education Centre (The Victorian Schoolroom)
Edinburgh
An interactive Victorian classroom experience and education history collection, at the Heart of Newhaven, Edinburgh
Historylinks Museum
Dornoch
The history of Dornoch, from Scotland's last witchcraft execution to its renowned golfing heritage
Hynish (Skerryvore Lighthouse Museum)
Isle of Tiree
Shore station for Skerryvore Lighthouse, Scotland's tallest lighthouse, built by the Stevenson engineering dynasty
HMS Unicorn
Dundee
One of the world's oldest wooden warships still afloat — Scotland's Royal Navy treasure at Dundee
Hoy Heritage Centre
Hoy
Shipwrecks, seabirds and Scapa Flow history, on the dramatic island home of the Old Man of Hoy
Hopetoun House
South Queensferry
One of Scotland's grandest Palladian stately homes, seat of the Hope family since the 17th century
Hospitalfield
Arbroath
A historic house and working artist-residency estate in Arbroath, blending Victorian Gothic interiors with contemporary art
House of Dun
Montrose
William Adam's Georgian masterpiece with Scotland's finest Baroque plasterwork
Hugh Miller's Birthplace Cottage and Museum
Cromarty
Birthplace of Hugh Miller, the self-taught stonemason who became a pioneering Victorian geologist
Huntingtower Castle
Perth
Two tower houses, one royal captivity — Scotland's most dramatic Renaissance interior paintings
Huntly Castle
Huntly
Magnificent ruined palace-castle of the Gordon earls, with stunning heraldic sculpture
Inchcolm Abbey
Inchcolm Island
Scotland's finest monastic ruins on an island in the Firth of Forth — reached only by ferry
Inchmahome Priory
Port of Menteith
The island priory that sheltered the infant Mary, Queen of Scots — reached only by boat
Inglis Memorial Hall Library Visitor Centre
Edzell
Robert Inglis's 1898 gift to Edzell — a beautifully preserved Victorian village library and local history centre
Innerpeffray Library
Crieff
Scotland's oldest free public lending library, founded c.1680 beside the River Earn
Insch Connection Museum
Insch
District history and railway heritage in the ticket office of a still-working Aberdeenshire station
Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland Museum
Edinburgh
750 civil engineering artefacts including Forth Bridge construction material, at Heriot-Watt's William Arrol Building
Inveraray Castle
Inveraray
Inveraray Castle stands on the wooded shores of Loch Fyne in Argyll, one of the most scenically beautiful settings of any great house in Scotland. The seat of…
Invergordon Naval Museum and Heritage Centre
Invergordon
The naval, industrial and maritime history of Invergordon, a major 20th-century Royal Navy base on the Cromarty Firth
Iona Abbey
Isle of Iona
The birthplace of Scottish Christianity and a place of pilgrimage for over 1,400 years
J.M. Barrie's Birthplace
Kirriemuir
Birthplace of the creator of Peter Pan — where a Scottish childhood fed an immortal imagination
James Clerk Maxwell Museum
Edinburgh
The birthplace of the physicist whose equations made radio, radar and wireless possible
Jarlshof
Sumburgh
Jarlshof stands at the southern tip of Shetland, on a headland above the sea at Sumburgh, and presents visitors with the most extraordinary compressed…
Jedburgh Abbey
Jedburgh
Scotland's most complete Border abbey — eight centuries of Augustinian splendour
Jedburgh Castle Jail and Museum
Jedburgh
Where medieval castles fell and reforming prisons rose — Jedburgh's extraordinary story
Jim Clark Motorsport Museum
Duns
The story of Jim Clark, double Formula One World Champion, told in his home town of Duns
John Buchan Story Museum
Peebles
The Thirty-Nine Steps, and the improbably varied life of the man who became Governor General of Canada
John Gray Centre
Haddington
East Lothian's museum, archive and library together in one Haddington building
John Knox House
Edinburgh
Edinburgh's finest medieval townhouse - a window into Reformation Scotland
John Muir's Birthplace
Dunbar
Where the father of America's national parks was born, on Dunbar High Street
John O'Groats Mill
John O'Groats
One of Scotland's last working watermills, restored and reopened at Britain's northeastern tip
John Paul Jones Birthplace Museum
Kirkbean
The birthplace cottage of John Paul Jones, the 'Father of the American Navy', on the Solway coast
Kilchurn Castle
Dalmally
Campbell stronghold at the head of Loch Awe — one of Scotland's most iconic Highland ruins
Kildrummy Castle
Alford
The great castle of the Earls of Mar — scene of Robert Bruce's 1306 betrayal
Kilmartin Museum
Kilmartin
Gateway to Kilmartin Glen, one of Scotland's richest prehistoric archaeological landscapes
Kilwinning Abbey Tower
Kilwinning
An 1816 clock tower within the ruins of Kilwinning Abbey, at the legendary birthplace of Scottish Freemasonry
King's Museum
Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen's natural history, geology, world cultures and fine art collections
Kinloch Museum
Balallan, Isle of Lewis
The Kinloch district's museum, archive and café in the old school at Balallan, Isle of Lewis
Kinneil Museum
Bo'ness
James Watt's steam engine birthplace, Roman Wall, and Renaissance paintings — Scotland's most layered historic site
Kirbuster Farm Museum
Birsay
The last un-restored traditional Orkney 'firehoose' farmhouse in Northern Europe
Kirkcudbright Galleries
Kirkcudbright
Celebrating the Kirkcudbright artists' colony, including E.A. Hornel and Jessie M. King
Kisimul Castle
Castlebay
Sea-lord stronghold on a harbour rock — Clan MacNeil's island fortress in the Outer Hebrides
Kyle Station Museum
Kyle of Lochalsh
The Kyle Line, Kyle harbour and West Coast fishing, in the station buildings at the end of the platform
Laing Museum
Newburgh
On the Tay shore beneath Lindores Abbey — the oldest Scotch whisky record and Fife's heritage of kings and pilgrims
Land, Sea and Islands Visitor Centre
Arisaig
Arisaig's secret Special Operations Executive wartime training history, alongside local land, sea and island heritage
Lathalmond Railway Museum
Dunfermline
A volunteer-restored heritage railway within a former WW2 Royal Navy armaments depot, near Dunfermline
Lauriston Castle
Edinburgh
Lauriston Castle, perched on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth in northwest Edinburgh, offers visitors an exceptional glimpse into Edwardian life…
Leadhills Miners' Library
Leadhills
Britain's oldest subscription library, founded by lead miners in 1741
Leighton Library
Dunblane
Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library, built 1687 for Bishop Robert Leighton's book bequest
Leith Hall
Huntly
A laird's house shaped by 300 years of one family's military service, with fine gardens and a bird hide
Liddesdale Heritage Centre and Museum
Newcastleton
Border Reivers, hill farming and a lost railway community, in the heart of Liddesdale
Lincluden Collegiate Church
Dumfries
Medieval carved splendour — the tomb of a Scottish princess among Scotland's finest ruins
Linlithgow Canal Museum
Linlithgow
The Union Canal's construction and working history, at Linlithgow's historic Manse Road Basin
Linlithgow Museum
Linlithgow
A royal burgh's own museum, told through its tanners as much as its kings
Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre (Ionad Naomh Moluag)
Isle of Lismore
Gaelic culture, crofting life and early Christian history on the fertile island of Lismore
Lochleven Castle
Kinross
Island fortress where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned and from which she made her dramatic escape in 1568
Longhope Lifeboat Museum
Longhope, Hoy
Remembering the 1969 Longhope lifeboat disaster and Orkney's volunteer sea-rescue tradition
Lossiemouth Fisheries and Community Museum
Lossiemouth
Herring, harbour life and Ramsay MacDonald — the story of a Moray coast fishing town
Low Parks Museum
Hamilton
The story of Hamilton and Lanarkshire — from Roman times to the present day
Maclaurin Art Gallery
Ayr
Scottish art in a Georgian mansion — one of Ayrshire's finest cultural destinations
Maclellan's Castle
Kirkcudbright
A 1577 tower house with a secret listening tube, behind the harbour of Kirkcudbright's Artists' Town
Maggie Law Maritime Museum
Gourdon
The 1890 inshore lifeboat that saved thirty-six lives, in the old coastguard building at Gourdon harbour
Maid of the Loch and Balloch Steam Slipway
Balloch
Britain's last paddle steamer and Europe's only working steam slipway, at the foot of Loch Lomond
Mary Queen of Scots House & Visitor Centre
Jedburgh
Where a queen nearly died and history changed forever
Maryhill Museum
Maryhill, Glasgow
Stained glass, canal history and community memory in Maryhill's restored Burgh Halls
Maud Railway Museum
Maud
The junction where the Buchan lines divided, in the station buildings at Maud
McKechnie Institute
Girvan
Girvan's fishing, Ailsa Craig and coastal history, in a Victorian library, museum and gallery
McLean Museum and Art Gallery
Greenock
James Watt's birthplace — art, history, and innovation on the Clyde
Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum
Meigle
Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum is one of the most extraordinary small museums in Scotland — a modest building in a Perthshire village that houses a collection…
Mellerstain House
Gordon
The finest Adam house in Scotland — unsurpassed Georgian rooms and a magnificent landscape
Melrose Abbey
Melrose
One of Scotland's most ornate medieval ruins, where the heart of Robert the Bruce is buried — a Gothic masterpiece of carved stone in the heart of the Borders
Methil Heritage Centre
Methil
Coal, docks and community — the industrial heritage of East Fife's Levenmouth
Military Museum Scotland
Wilkieston, Kirknewton
Scottish military history from WWI to today — hands-on, outside the glass case
Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre
Montrose
Britain's first military airfield: from the pioneers of the RFC to the Battle of Britain
Montrose Museum
Montrose
One of Scotland's oldest museums, celebrating Montrose's proud history since 1842
Morayvia
Kinloss
Aircraft, cockpits and a planetarium in a converted school beside the former RAF Kinloss
Mount Stuart
Isle of bute
Victorian Gothic fantasy — the strangest and most beautiful house in Britain
Mousa Broch
Sandwick
The world's most complete Iron Age broch — standing to full height on Shetland's Mousa island
Mull of Galloway Lighthouse Exhibition
Drummore
Stevenson lighthouse engineering and seabird cliffs at Scotland's southernmost point
Muness Castle
Unst
The northernmost castle in Britain — a 1598 Z-plan tower house at the edge of Shetland
Museum nan Eilean, Lews Castle
Stornoway
The Lewis Chessmen and the story of the Outer Hebrides, at Lews Castle overlooking Stornoway
Museum nan Eilean, Sgoil Lionacleit
Isle of Benbecula
A changing exhibitions programme for Uist and Benbecula, sister venue to Museum nan Eilean, Lews Castle
Museum of Abernethy
Abernethy
A Perthshire village's history in eighteenth-century farm buildings beside the Abernethy round tower
Museum of Banff
Banff
Scotland's largest collection of Banff silver, Thomas Edward's natural history, and the Deskford Carnyx
Museum of Childhood
Edinburgh
The Museum of Childhood on Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile is the world's first museum dedicated to the history of childhood. Founded in 1955 by Councillor…
Museum of Communication
Burntisland
Telegraph to television and beyond, in a specialist collection on Burntisland High Street
Museum of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh's story told through objects, from everyday items to treasured relics
Museum of Islay Life
Port Charlotte
3,000 objects of Islay social, agricultural and Gaelic cultural history, in a former Free Church at Port Charlotte
Museum of Lead Mining
Wanlockhead
Discover Scotland's lead mining heritage in Britain's highest village
Museum of Piping
Glasgow
The history of the Great Highland Bagpipe, at Glasgow's National Piping Centre
Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage
Edinburgh
Two centuries of Scottish firefighting history, from James Braidwood's pioneering 1824 Edinburgh brigade to today
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
Fraserburgh
Scotland's lighthouse heritage — from Kinnaird Head's 1787 first light to the Stevenson engineering legacy
Museum of Scottish Railways
Bo'ness
Scotland's railway heritage — steam, history, and the Firth of Forth
Museum of the Cumbraes
Millport
Four thousand years of Cumbrae history in Garrison House, ten minutes by ferry from Largs
Museum of the Isles
Isle of Skye
Discover the Lords of the Isles and Highland heritage on the Isle of Skye
Museum of The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Edinburgh
The story of Scotland's infantry regiment and its six historic antecedents, at the heart of Edinburgh Castle
Museum of the University of St Andrews (MUSA)
St andrews
Five Centuries of Discovery at Scotland's First University
Museum on the Mound
Edinburgh
Scotland's relationship with money — 300 years of banking history in Edinburgh's most iconic building
Musselburgh Museum
Musselburgh
The Honest Toun's own museum, from Roman Inveresk to the fishwives of Fisherrow
National Mining Museum Scotland
Newtongrange
Scotland's coal mining story — from the Victorian pit to the last closure
National Museum of Flight
East Fortune
Scotland's national aviation collection — Concorde, the R34 and a century of flight at East Fortune Airfield
National Museum of Rural Life
East Kilbride
Scotland's national museum of farming and rural life, at a historic working farm jointly stewarded with the National Trust for Scotland
National War Museum Scotland
Edinburgh
Four centuries of Scottish military history within Scotland's greatest fortress
Nelson Monument
Edinburgh
A telescope-shaped tower on Calton Hill commemorating Nelson, with a working 1852 time-ball system
New Abbey Corn Mill
New Abbey
A working 18th-century mill beside Scotland's most romantic abbey ruins
New Lanark
Lanark
New Lanark stands on the banks of the River Clyde in a steep wooded gorge near the town of Lanark, a remarkably complete and intact cotton mill village that…
Newhailes
Musselburgh
The Scottish Enlightenment's most learned room, conserved rather than restored
Newton Stewart Museum
Newton Stewart
Nursery, dairy, smithy and photography — everyday Galloway life across two centuries
No 28 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
A Robert Adam-designed Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh's New Town, combining National Trust for Scotland offices with selectively opened decorative arts rooms
North Ayrshire Heritage Centre
Saltcoats
North Ayrshire's principal archive and museum, home to one of Scotland's finest medieval stone sarcophagi
North Coast Visitor Centre
Thurso
Caithness geology, history and the Dounreay nuclear legacy, in Thurso's former Town Hall
North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre
Motherwell
The story of Scotland's iron and steel heartland and its remarkable communities
Nurse's Cottage Heritage Centre
Isle of Berneray
Berneray's own heritage centre and visitor point, on the island off North Uist — not Great Bernera off Lewis
Oban War and Peace Museum
Oban
A volunteer-run seafront museum telling Oban's Second World War Combined Operations and flying-boat history
Old Gala House
Galashiels
A 1583 tower house telling the story of Galashiels, with a contemporary art gallery on the upper floor
Old Royal Station, Ballater
Ballater
Queen Victoria's gateway to Balmoral, with a recreated royal waiting room and replica royal saloon carriage
Orchardton Tower
Dalbeattie
The only complete circular tower house in Scotland — a remarkable 15th-century architectural rarity near Dalbeattie
Orkney Fossil and Heritage Centre
Burray, Orkney
Devonian fish fossils and Burray's local heritage in a converted farm steading on Orkney's Churchill Barriers route
Orkney Wireless Museum
Kirkwall
Wireless and radio technology history, with Scapa Flow's crucial wartime communications role, in Kirkwall
Paisley Thread Mill Museum
Paisley
The story of Paisley's globally significant thread-making industry, housed in a former mill building
Paxton House
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Scotland's finest Palladian mansion on the River Tweed — with the largest 18th-century picture gallery in Scotland
Penicuik's Paper Heritage Museum
Penicuik
The story of 'the Papermaking Town' — with hands-on papermaking for visitors
Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Perth
Scotland's Royal City — Two Centuries of Collections in a Magnificent New Home
Peterhead Prison Museum
Peterhead
Scotland's toughest prison, closed 2013, telling the story of 'Scotland's Alcatraz' and the 1987 siege
Physicians' Gallery, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Alchemy, Jacobite medicine and patient art at Scotland's Royal College of Physicians
Pitlochry and Moulin Heritage Centre
Moulin, near Pitlochry
The older village behind a Victorian resort town — Moulin, Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire
Pitmedden Garden
Ellon
Scotland's finest recreated 17th-century parterre garden, with 40,000 summer bedding plants and a farming life museum
Pollok House
Glasgow
Pollok House stands as one of Scotland's finest Edwardian country houses, situated within the magnificent 360-acre Pollok Country Park in southwest Glasgow.…
Portsoy Salmon Bothy
Portsoy
An 1834 salmon netting bothy on Portsoy harbour, restored as the museum of Scotland's salmon fishery
Preston Mill
East Linton
Scotland's oldest surviving water-driven meal mill, its distinctive conical kiln overlooking the River Tyne near East Linton
Prestongrange Museum
Prestonpans
A former colliery and industrial heritage site on the Firth of Forth, home to one of Scotland's best-preserved Cornish beam engines
Priorwood Garden
Melrose
A walled garden beside Melrose Abbey specialising in dried flowers and rare Scottish apple varieties
Provand's Lordship
Glasgow
Provand's Lordship is Glasgow's oldest surviving house, a remarkable medieval building dating from 1471 that offers a rare glimpse into pre-industrial urban…
Queensferry Museum
South Queensferry
The Burryman, three great Forth bridges, and eight centuries of ferry history
Ravenscraig Castle
Kirkcaldy
Scotland's first purpose-built artillery castle — the fortress that changed military architecture
Ravenspoint Museum
South Lochs, Isle of Lewis
The Pairc Historical Society's local history museum for the townships of South Lochs, Isle of Lewis
Regimental Museum of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Edinburgh
Scotland's cavalry regiment and the home of 'Amazing Grace'
Renfrew Community Museum
Renfrew
Earth, Fire, Air and Water — nine centuries of Renfrew, cradle of the Stewart dynasty
Ring of Brodgar
Stenness
The Ring of Brodgar stands on a narrow strip of land between the Lochs of Harray and Stenness on the Orkney Mainland, one of the most atmospheric and evocative…
River Findhorn Heritage Centre
Forres
The River Findhorn's geology, crofting history and legends of Randolph's Leap and the Wolf of Badenoch, at Logie Steading
River Tweed Salmon Fishing Museum
Kelso
Over two centuries of salmon fishing history on the River Tweed, in Kelso Town Hall
Riverside Museum
Glasgow
The Riverside Museum is Glasgow's stunning award-winning transport museum, designed by internationally renowned architect Dame Zaha Hadid. Opened in June 2011…
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
Ayr
Celebrating Scotland's national poet - the world's greatest Burns collection
Robert Gordon University Art & Heritage Collections
Aberdeen
Fine art, applied art and architectural heritage from Gray's School of Art and Robert Gordon University's predecessor institutions, displayed across the working campus
Royal Burgh of Lanark Museum
Lanark
William Wallace, ancient royal burgh privileges and Lanimer Day, in the heart of the Clyde Valley
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Glasgow
Six centuries of Scottish medical history, in a working professional body founded by royal charter in 1599
Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum
Glasgow
Three centuries of Scotland's soldiers — Glasgow and Ayrshire's own regiment
Royal Yacht Britannia
Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth II's former floating royal residence, permanently berthed at Leith, Edinburgh
Ross of Mull Historical Centre
Isle of Mull
Crofting, fishing and granite-quarrying history of the Ross of Mull peninsula, in Bunessan
Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin
A fifteenth-century chapel famed for its extraordinary carved stonework and the Apprentice Pillar legend
Rothesay Castle
Rothesay
Scotland's only circular plan castle — Norse raids and royal residences on Bute
Rough Castle
Bonnybridge
Rome's northernmost frontier — the best-preserved fort on the Antonine Wall UNESCO World Heritage Site
Rozelle House
Ayr
A Georgian mansion gifted to Ayr — architecture, art and parkland on the Firth of Clyde
Ruthwell Cross
Dumfries
One of Europe's greatest early medieval monuments — a runic cross that shaped English literature
Sanday Heritage Centre
Sanday, Orkney
Local history archive, a restored traditional but'n'ben croft house, and a reconstructed prehistoric burnt mound, on Sanday, Orkney
Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum
Sanquhar
Home of the world's oldest post office, the Sanquhar Declaration, and Scotland's most distinctive knitting tradition
Scalloway Museum
Scalloway
A volunteer-run local history museum in Shetland's former capital, telling the story of the wartime Shetland Bus and Scalloway Castle
Scapa Flow Museum
Hoy
Telling the story of Scapa Flow's Royal Navy history at the former Lyness naval base on Hoy, Orkney
Scotland Street School Museum
Glasgow
Scotland Street School Museum occupies a stunning building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in 1906. This purpose-built school served…
Scotland's Secret Bunker
Troywood
A Regional Seat of Government a hundred feet under Fife, secret from 1951 until the Cold War ended
Scotstarvit Tower
Cupar
Six storeys of Scottish scholarship — the tower of the man who mapped Scotland
Scott Monument
Edinburgh
The world's largest monument to a writer, commemorating Sir Walter Scott in Princes Street Gardens
Scottish Crannog Centre
Kenmore
A reconstructed Iron Age crannog village on Loch Tay, rebuilt at a new site after a 2021 fire and reopened in 2023
Scottish Fisheries Museum
Anstruther
Scotland's story of the sea - boats, nets, and fishing communities
Scottish Football Museum
Glasgow
Housed within Hampden Park, the world's largest collection of football memorabilia telling the story of the Scottish game
Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre
Glasgow
An international collection of puppets and masks, and a working puppet theatre, in Glasgow's West End
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Edinburgh
Scotland's gallery for modern and contemporary art in beautiful parkland
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh
Scotland's story told through portraits of famous Scots
Scottish Vintage Bus Museum
Dunfermline
One of Scotland's largest collections of preserved buses and coaches, at a former RAF airfield in Fife
Session Cottage Museum
Turriff
A 250-year-old Turriff but and ben furnished as an Aberdeenshire home of about 1900
Shetland Crofthouse Museum
Dunrossness
A restored nineteenth-century thatched Shetland croft house with an adjoining traditional click mill near Boddam
Shetland Textile Working Museum
Lerwick
A Lerwick museum dedicated to Shetland's internationally renowned Fair Isle and lace knitting traditions
Shotts Heritage Centre
Shotts
Covenanting history and the story of the Shotts Iron Company, within Shotts Library, North Lanarkshire
Sir Walter Scott's Courtroom
Selkirk
The original courtroom where Sir Walter Scott presided as Sheriff of Selkirkshire for over three decades
Skelmorlie Secret Bunker
Skelmorlie
A restored 1965 Royal Observer Corps nuclear monitoring bunker, with guided tours led by former Corps members
Skipness Castle
Skipness
13th-century coastal castle and chapel with carved West Highland grave slabs
Sma' Shot Cottages
Paisley
Restored weavers' cottages commemorating Paisley's handloom weaving heritage and the 1850s Sma' Shot dispute
Smailholm Tower
Kelso
Smailholm Tower is one of the most perfectly preserved and most atmospherically situated peel towers in Scotland — a stark fifteenth-century stone fortress…
St Andrews Castle
St Andrews
The bishops' castle with a bottle dungeon and 16th-century siege tunnels visitors can still crawl through
St Andrews Cathedral Museum
St andrews
Scotland's Grandest Medieval Cathedral and Its Ancient Treasures
St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum
St andrews
Preserving the history of Scotland's most celebrated medieval and university town
St Cecilia's Hall
Edinburgh
St Cecilia's Hall stands as Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall and now houses one of the world's finest collections of historical keyboard…
St Monans Camera Museum
St Monans
Over 3,000 historic cameras from the Jim Matthew Collection, in a former Salvation Army Hall in St Monans, Fife
St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life and Art
Glasgow
Exploring the world's religions through art and artifacts
St Ronan's Wells Visitor Centre
Innerleithen
The historic sulphur spa, Walter Scott's novel, and the St Ronan's Border Games, at Innerleithen's original spa pump room
St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum
St Vigeans
38 Pictish carved stones, including the inscribed Drosten Stone, in a small Angus village near Arbroath
Stanley Mills
Stanley
A remarkably complete 200-year-old water-powered cotton mill complex on the River Tay
Stewarton Museum
Stewarton
The 'Bonnet Toun' — bonnet-making, lace weaving and Ayrshire community life
Stewartry Museum
Kirkcudbright
Artists' colony, Covenanting country, and the heritage of Galloway's ancient Stewartry
Strachur Smiddy Museum and Craft Shop
Strachur
A working 18th-century Highland blacksmith's forge on the shores of Loch Fyne, with live weekend demonstrations
Strathaven Museum
Strathaven
The weaving, Covenanting and radical history of a South Lanarkshire town, kept by its own community
Strathnaver Museum
Bettyhill
The definitive museum of the Highland Clearances — Sutherland's silenced valleys remembered in the Farr Parish Church
Stromness Museum
Stromness
Orkney's story told in ships, seas, and ice — from Scapa Flow to the Arctic and Hudson's Bay
Stronsay Heritage Centre
Stronsay
Stronsay's own record, from the herring boom at Whitehall to island genealogy, in temporary premises at Wood's Yard
Sueno's Stone
Forres
The tallest Pictish cross-slab in Scotland — a 6.58-metre carved monument of the ninth century
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life
Coatbridge
Scotland's Noisiest Museum — Iron, Steel, and the Lives That Built a Nation
Surgeons' Hall Museums
Edinburgh
Surgeons' Hall Museums, home to one of the most significant collections of surgical, dental, and medical history in the world, offers a fascinating and…
Sweetheart Abbey
New Abbey
Founded for love — Devorguilla of Galloway's memorial to her husband's embalmed heart
Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre
Lochmaddy
North Uist social history, Gaelic culture and the Runrig archive, in a former merchant's store at Lochmaddy
Tain and District Museum
Tain
Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh — St Duthus, royal pilgrimage, and the home of Glenmorangie
Tayside Medical History Museum
Dundee
The history of medicine and healthcare across Tayside, displayed within Dundee's Ninewells teaching hospital
Talbot Rice Gallery
Edinburgh
The Talbot Rice Gallery, the University of Edinburgh's public art gallery, occupies a magnificent position within the Old College designed by architect William…
Tangwick Haa Museum
Northmavine
A restored laird's haa telling the story of crofting and fishing in remote Northmavine, Shetland
Tantallon Castle
North-berwick
Clifftop Stronghold of the Red Douglases — Defiant Above the North Sea
Tarves Heritage Centre
Tarves
A village museum in an 1837 school, complete with a restored Victorian classroom, in the heart of Formartine
The Alasdair Gray Archive
Glasgow
The visual and literary archive of Alasdair Gray, author of Lanark, with a restaging of his working studio
The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum
Stirling
The story of Scotland's famous Thin Red Line regiment
The Burrell Collection
Glasgow
The Burrell Collection is one of the world's greatest personal art collections, gifted to Glasgow by shipping magnate Sir William Burrell (1861-1958) and his…
The Devil's Porridge Museum
Eastriggs
The extraordinary story of the world's largest First World War munitions factory
The Georgian House
Edinburgh
The Georgian House at 7 Charlotte Square stands as Edinburgh's finest example of New Town Georgian architecture and lifestyle. Designed by renowned architect…
The Heritage Hub
Ayr
South Ayrshire's collections and archives brought to Ayr High Street, next door to the Town Hall
The Highlanders' Museum
Inverness
Three centuries of Highland military heritage in Europe's finest artillery fortress
The Hill House
Helensburgh
Mackintosh's masterpiece — the room that changed European design history, now fully restored
The Hunterian Museum
Glasgow
The Hunterian is Scotland's oldest public museum and one of the world's great university collections, founded in 1807 when the University of Glasgow received…
The Kelpies & The Helix Visitor Centre
Falkirk
Inside the world's largest equine sculptures — the iconic Kelpies of Falkirk
The Lighthouse
Glasgow
The Lighthouse is Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture, housed in a landmark building that was Charles Rennie Mackintosh's first public commission -…
The Mackintosh House
Glasgow
The most authentic collection of Mackintosh domestic design in the world
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum
Dundee
Dundee's treasure house of art, history, and culture in a Victorian Gothic masterpiece
The Meffan Museum and Art Gallery
Forfar
Ancient Pictish stones, witch trial history, and Scottish art in the heart of Angus
The Mill on the Fleet
Gatehouse of Fleet
Community-run heritage and exhibition centre in a restored 18th-century cotton mill on the Water of Fleet
The Museum at Comann Eachdraidh an Taobh Siar
Shawbost
The West Side Historical Society's museum in the old Shawbost school, recording the crofting townships from Arnol to Dalbeg
The National Wallace Monument
Stirling
Scotland's memorial to Sir William Wallace — guardian, knight, and patriot
The Old Haa
Yell
A historic 'haa' house on Yell, Shetland, combining local history, arts and crafts, and a tearoom
The People's Story Museum
Edinburgh
The People's Story Museum tells the history of Edinburgh's working people from the late 18th century to the present day. Located in the historic Canongate…
The Scotch Whisky Experience
Edinburgh
Scotland's whisky heritage brought to life in the heart of Edinburgh
The Suttie Arts Space
Aberdeen
Britain's only commissioning contemporary art gallery inside an acute hospital, open around the clock at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
The Tall Ship at Riverside
Glasgow
The Tall Ship at Riverside offers visitors the unique opportunity to explore the SV Glenlee, one of only five Clyde-built sailing ships still afloat and one of…
The Tenement House
Glasgow
The Tenement House offers an extraordinarily preserved glimpse into ordinary Glasgow life in the early 20th century. This National Trust for Scotland property…
The Wee Museum of Memory, Ocean Terminal
Edinburgh
A hands-on museum of everyday life and a dementia-friendly drop-in centre, with no glass cases and nothing you cannot touch
The Wee Museum of Memory, West Lothian
Livingston
A hands-on reminiscence museum and social space in the middle of The Centre, Livingston
The Wyllieum
Greenock
The world of George Wyllie, 'Scul?tor' — Straw Locomotive, Paper Boat and a lifetime of Clyde-coast art
Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace
Ecclefechan
The Dumfriesshire birthplace of essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland
Threave Castle
Castle Douglas
A massive Black Douglas stronghold on a river island in Galloway — accessible only by rowing boat, as it has been for six centuries
Timespan Heritage Centre
Helmsdale
Clearances, gold rushes, and herring — the turbulent, extraordinary history of Sutherland told without flinching
Traquair House
Innerleithen
Scotland's Oldest Inhabited House — Nine Centuries of Royal Visits and Hidden History
Trimontium Museum
Melrose
The story of Trimontium, a major Roman fort guarding Britain's northern frontier near Melrose
Trinity House
Edinburgh
The historic hall of Leith's maritime mariners' guild, with outstanding Georgian interiors
Turriff Museum and Heritage Centre
Turriff
Turriff's civic, Covenanting and farming history, including the famous 1913 Turra Coo incident
Tweeddale Museum and Gallery
Peebles
Ancient Greece in the Scottish Borders — Where the Unexpected Awaits
Uig Museum
Uig
The community museum of Uig on the Isle of Lewis, where the Lewis Chessmen came to light in 1831
Ullapool Museum
Ullapool
Planned in 1788, built for herring: the complete story of a Highland fishing town
University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum
Aberdeen
A free university teaching collection surveying the animal kingdom, from protozoa to whales
University of Dundee Museums
Dundee
Free changing exhibitions from the University of Dundee's art, science and natural history collections
Unst Boat Haven
Unst
Traditional Scandinavian-style boats on Britain's most northerly inhabited island
War Poets Collection
Edinburgh
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Craiglockhart War Hospital, in the building where they met in 1917
Wardlaw Museum
St-andrews
St Andrews' new museum — natural history, world cultures and Scottish heritage
Waterlines Heritage Centre
Lybster
The story of Lybster, once one of Scotland's greatest herring ports, told beside the harbour that made it
Weavers Cottage
Kilbarchan
An eighteenth-century handloom weaver's cottage in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, preserving Scotland's historic domestic weaving craft
Wellwood Burns Centre and Museum
Irvine
Irvine Burns Club's museum of Robert Burns's formative months in the town, with original manuscripts and Kilmarnock editions
Wemyss Caves Visitor Centre and Museum
East Wemyss
Scotland's largest collection of Pictish cave carvings, on the Fife coast at East Wemyss
West Highland Museum
Fort William
From Jacobite secrets to Ben Nevis — the story of Scotland's dramatic West Highlands
West Kilbride Museum
West Kilbride
A volunteer-run village museum of Ayrshire whitework, natural history and local memory, above West Kilbride Village Hall
Westray Heritage Centre
Westray
Home to the Westray Stone and the Westray Wife, among the most significant Neolithic finds in Orkney
Whalsay Heritage and Community Centre
Whalsay
The heritage of Shetland's Bonnie Isle, from haaf fishing to Europe's most modern pelagic fleet
Whitburn Community Museum
Whitburn
Preserving the stories, memories, and heritage of Whitburn and the communities of West Lothian
Whithorn Priory and Museum
Whithorn
The cradle of Scottish Christianity — St Ninian's sacred site with Pictish stones and 1,600 years of pilgrimage
Wigtown Museum
Wigtown
The story of the Burgh of Wigtown in its French gothic County Buildings, with Scotland's most complete set of 1707 town weights
William Lamb Sculpture Studio
Montrose
The preserved studio of a sculptor who lost his right hand at the Front and taught himself to work with his left
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