Highland Folk Museum — Attraction in Great Britain

Great stop with LOTS of walking. This is around one mile in length with plenty of elevation change for mobility hindered or concerned folks. Paths are nice, wide and well groomed but quite a lot of walking. The exhibits are quite good, a handy booklet with map, each page corresponding to a featured building or section come included with the suggested donation. Super friendly, happy to do their job, greeters at check in booth one must pass to gain entrance. And there are three HAIRY COOS! Fabulous little guys. I don’t know what the heck it is about these critters but they near entrance me. Took way too many pictures and mostly they show their butt “at”you. Occasionally one may get a prized face shot but quite elusive. Three different time periods set in actual period building styles and there are actors dressed in same time frame outfits that enrich the experience in the 1700s, time zone, if you will. Clever, interesting. Something for everyone. And all for a small donation. Excellent job in maintaining a representation of the life and trials of Highlander living. The idea, that in unbelievably harsh winters, like HARSH!!! What with the 15-20 FEET of snow fall during those years, the people MUST have the necessary food stores to sustain the exceedingly long winters. Folks would have both a “people” side and a livestock side to the dwellings. Everything would die if not. Most of the poor didn’t even own and livestock and those that did cohabited with their beasts. In mild seasons most just lived outside. But in cold temps there could be as many as 70 people in these smoke-filled, literal stone huts. The smoke served a purpose other than burning your eyes! The rats, lice and other pests wouldn’t take up residence in the thatch roof since it was always, constantly seeping smoke. Drove the vermin away. One less problem! It’s amazing humanity survived in these parts. Tough sons (and daughters) of guns!!! I mean like super tough, hardy folk!!! Fabulous stop off the highway (motorway) for young and old. 8-80!!! Loads of paid parking. And if you can, pass along your unexpired parking voucher/receipt to someone else. Makes for an even more pleasant experience.

Pretty clean.

Toilets and cafe( not literally) side by side, near entrance. Sweet shop at one end near the stars of the show, hairy coo. That by the way, pretty much eat all dam day long from my observation! Kinda need to, not a lot of caloric alive in grass. Gotta keep up their coo figure!

One could spend a good while there. Lots of smiling faces and likely slightly sore feet if you walked a lot that day! Like we did thanks to my beloved, marathon style, sightseeing wife! Happy to do it and you likely will be too. Bring children and run them hard and they’ll crash out hard lol! For your...

Take a seat and prepare to be shocked....this venue is excellent in every way AND ITS FREE. My granddaughter visited this museum a few weeks ago with her school and loved it so much she wanted to go back. We were on holiday last week at Aviemore so as the museum is only a few Miles south of there we returned along with her younger siblings. A large spacious car park allows for safe and secure parking. A £2 parking cost is by today's standards, a pifflingly small amount to ask. You enter the complex past a booth where you are met by a very pleasant and helpful staff member who offers advice and a hearty welcome and you are reminded this entire place is free however should you wish to donate you can do so. Going by what I saw, it was clearly evident many people loved the place and the colours and sizes of the notes in the charity box confirmed this. Once inside, the site was clear for all to see and neat gravel paths intersected the large grass areas leading you on a tour of numerous buildings all replicating houses, offices and business structures over the last 3 to 400 years. The buildings are awash with artifacts that would have been used at that time and the attention to detail in each and every one was fantastic. Being able to take 3 kids aged 5 to 12 through a "time warp" was fantastic and it let them see just how basic life was for the world all those years ago. Each building was as fascinating as the next and after 2 hours we just beat closing time however we plan on returning again with much more available time so we can study our past more deeply. If you are young it's fascinating to see how the older generations survived and if you are as old as us you remember most of the rooms, the smells, the cold, the different colours of brown varnish and the simply great uncluttered and uncomplicated ways to entertain ourselves. The old school looked as though a class of 40 children had left the building (around 1945) about 5 minutes before we walked in, spooky. The place is great, the staff are first rate and their enthusiasm for all visitors to soak themselves in memories is clear for all to see. I did see that there were building works going on in the wooded area so it would appear more history is being prepared for the future. This place is now on my personal list of favourites and we will be...

Really lovely folk museum with engaged and caring staff and beautiful grounds, really well preserved and interactive exhibits. Love that it is outdoors and so welcoming to children to get to know this piece of Scottish history. Be sure to donate! Additionally the facilities are clean and the cafe serves up really nice pizza rolls and soup with toasters (I had the brie and caramelized onion) which were all piping hot, fresh, and excellent in flavor. Would highly recommend spending about 3 hours there. We spent two hours there and it was not long enough, so had allotted too little time to visit the older highlands houses and scanned them briefly. Reserve 1 hour for each end of the grounds and 20-30 minutes to visit the school house and participate in a “class!, and some time for snacks and playtime for the kids in the...