From 1 October 2011, these services are being provided by High Life Highland an arms length company set up to deliver community learning and leisure services for The Highland Council.
Office:
Highland Folk Museum
Kingussie Road
Newtonmore
PH20 1AY
Tel: 01540 673551 Fax: 01540 673693
e-mail: highland.folk@highland.gov.uk Website: http://www.highlandfolk.com/
Manager: Bob Powell, Principal Museums Officer.
Bookings / Enquiries: Please contact the Office as above.
The Highland Folk Museum, recognized as Britain’s first mainland open air museum opened at Kingussie in 1944. Named Am Fasgadh (The Shelter) this became the third home for founder Dr. Isobel F. Grant’s renowned core collection of Highland material culture and as a living history museum with such as the Lewis Blackhouse became the inspiration for the larger Newtonmore site. Opened in 1995 the Newtonmore site has gone from strength to strength, proactively reflecting many aspects of Highland rural life and culture through collecting, preserving, interpreting for and interacting with individuals, groups, communities and institutions both within and beyond the Highlands.
Opening Hours
Visit our website for opening hours - http://www.highlandfolk.com/
Key Features:
One of the Highland’s and Scotland’s principal cultural visitor attractions and heritage resources.
- Free Admission
- Significant collections, including of national importance, reflecting Highland rural and domestic life from the early 1700s to the late 1900s.
- One mile long and 80 acres of open air, living history museum spectacularly set in view of the Cairngorm Mountains.
- A range of original, relocated and reconstructed buildings interpreted for the 1930s including a working 1930s farm with livestock; school; church, joiner’s shop, sawmill; shop; post office; shepherd’s bothy; etc.
- A uniquely recreated and interpreted early 1700s Highland Township with timber cruck framed, turf walled and thatched roofed buildings.
- Traditional crafts, farming, domestic skills, music, etc represented, interpreted and preserved.
- Enthusiastic and informed interpretive and visitor services staff.
- Programmed demonstrations and activities.
- VisitScotland 4 Star, Hospitality Assured and Green Tourism Silver
- Visitor services include audio visual introduction, café, shop(s), children's play and picnic areas.
Highland Vernacular Buildings Trust
Although no longer in existence, the Highland Vernacular Buildings Trust (1995 to 2003) was instrumental in developing Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore. The Trust carried out the relocation, re-erection, and re-creation of many of the vernacular buildings and structures at the museum.