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The Highland Folk Museum is a museum and an open-air visitor attraction in Newtonmore in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom. It is owned by the Highland Council and administered by High Life Highland. It was founded in 1935 by Dr Isabel Frances Grant (1887–1983).
Newtonmore is the site of the open-air Highland Folk Museum since the 1980s. [10] It is located on Kingussie Road, on the eastern outskirts of the village. The village is also home to the Clan Macpherson House and Museum, situated at the junction of Perth Road, Laggan Road and Main Street. The museum opened in 1952, with the exhibition mainly ...
The Highland Wildlife Park is close by. The Highland Folk Museum is in Newtonmore , 3 miles (5 kilometres) from Kingussie. Kingussie is at the centre of a network of well maintained and waymarked footpaths; one of the most popular walks in the area is the ascent to Creag Bheag , [ 11 ] a prominent hill overlooking its centre.
Highland Folk Museum: Newtonmore: Highland: The Highlands – Badenoch and Strathspey: Open-air 80-acre (32 ha) site portrays aspects of 200 years of Highland rural life from the early 18th century to the mid-20th century Highland Museum of Childhood: Strathpeffer: Highland: The Highlands – Ross and Cromarty: Toys
In 1930 Grant organised and curated the 'Highland Exhibition' staged in Inverness, with some 2,100 artefacts gathered and exhibited as a 'national folk museum'. [10] She founded the Highland Folk Museum in 1935, using a personal legacy to acquire a disused former United Free Church on the island of Iona. [11]
Clan Macpherson House and Museum, Newtonmore, is situated at the junction of Perth Road, Laggan Road and Main Street. The museum opened in 1952, with the exhibition mainly containing items from the nearby Cluny Castle which had recently been sold. The displays in the museum were significantly reworked in 1984–1985 and in winter 2004–2005. [11]
An estimated 4500–5000 cattle were in Badenoch in the 1770s. [10] In the mid-1750s, the first flood banks on the River Spey in Badenoch were built at Pitmain, [11] just southwest of the modern day edge of Kingussie. Famine struck Badenoch in the early 1770s and 1780s, the later was widespread across Scotland and even Europe.
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