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At the Highland Folk Museum we give our visitors a flavour of how Highland people lived and worked from the 1700s up until the 1960s! We do this by displaying over 30 historical buildings and furnishing them appropriate to their time period. Some have been built from scratch on site and some have been moved here from other locations.

The exhibition tells the story of the town’s development using audiovisual and traditional displays. The Resource Centre provides internet access and family history research facilities for local people and visitors.

The true value of a museum is to give an awareness of our roots, enabling us to understand where we are now. Without memory and a sense of belonging, our lives have no meaning.

The Glencoe Folk Museum was co-founded by Miss Barbara Fairweather MBE and Mrs Rae Grant in the 1960s, and for both ladies it was a life's work. In 1971 the museum was gifted  the two cottages, which create the main building, by the late Hugh Grant. The museum opened its doors in 1972 and over the last forty years the unique and eclectic collection of objects has grown.

The Centre provides a focus for the work of Dunbeath Preservation Trust: Registered museum; archaeological exhibition, Neil M Gunn literary landscape, engaging approach to landscape interpretation through art installations, photography and unique floor map.

Repository for research data, manuscripts, photographs and items of local material culture; venue for lectures, storytelling and workshops; gathering place for local people and visitors – young and old – alike. Disabled access includes ramp, toilet and all exhibition areas at ground level.