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The Highland Folk Museum is on the north
side of the Village of Newtonmore in
the Highlands of Scotland, 67 miles northwest
of Perth,
16 miles south of Aviemore.
The Museum is open 7 days a week, all year
round, with a cafe. There is no entrance fee,
Donations are encouraged. Postcode: PH20
1AY
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The Image top is of the large Car Park for
the Museum.
The second image is of the Cafe and Kids
Play.
The next images are of Cottages from the
1700s, with the top one a design used in the
Hebridean Islands.
The Museum covers a large area with a
Church, Clockmaker's, Joiner’s, Post Office,
Sawmill, School, Smoke House, and Sweet
Shop.
Down past the Steam Engine and Church is a
Woodland Path that leads to Baile Gean Village
from the 1700s. This is the top attraction at
the Museum as it has been used in Films and TV
such as Outlander in
2013.
Baile Gean is a copy of a Village from this
area that was abandoned in the 1800s.
Back up through the Woodland Path is the old
Curling Pond used by the people of Newtonmore.
Curling on Ponds and Lakes began in the 1500s
in Scotland, becomming extremely popular with
vast crouds. This was a time known as the
Little Ice Age,
with real cold winters up to the early
1900s.
The first Indoor Rink opened in 1907 at
Crossmyloof in Glasgow, with many more soon
following, leading to the end of Outdoor
Curling.
Back at the Main Section of the Museum is
Knockbain School, originaly built by Inverness
in 1925. At times, you can have leasons at the
School using Dip Pens to test your writing
abilities, a craft still used by a few people
today, not easy, but impressive when
mastered.
The Museum was opened by Dr. Isabel Frances
Grant in 1935, on the Isle of Iona. The
Museum was moved to Laggan on the Mainland in
1939, to Kingussie in 1944, then finally to
Newtonmore in 1987.
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