Highland Folk Museum
The Highland Folk Museum is an open air museum in Newtonmore in the Grampian Mountains of the Scottish Highlands. It represents the life of the early modern period to the early postwar period in the Highlands Represents the museum consists of four parts: a conserved in situ farm of the 19th century partly translocated outbuildings, a village of the 1930s with a school, church and craftsman houses, a forest with mill and playground and reconstructed village around 1700. there are also gardens, dry stone walls, the transmitted from the discontinued portion Museum in Kingussie Black House, a railway breakpoint cottages and a cafe with a small restaurant.
- 2.1 The Allt Làirigh ( Aultlairie ) Farm with outbuildings
- 2.2 The open-air area
- 2.3 The pine forest
- 2.4 Baile Gean, the 18th-century settlement
History
Founded in Iona
The foundation of the museum dates back to the collections and Scientific Work of Mrs. Isabel Frances Grant from Edinburgh. As the first museum building she bought in 1935 an abandoned church on the island Iowa. She called her museum "Am Fasgadh " ( Gaelic: The Shelter ) Because "it was to shelter homely ancient things from destruction". To accommodate their growing collection Three years later she bought an abandoned church also im 18 miles from Kingussie Laggan remote location.
The site Kingussie
Another step towards the realization of a larger museum in 1943, the acquisition of " Pitmain Lodge " in Kingussie along with 1.2 hectares of land for the construction of some cottages. The Highland Folk Museum was the first open-air museum on the " main island " of Great Britain. This location was up to its task 2009, the center of the museum. It was a living museum with buildings such as the Lewis Blackhouse and thus became the nucleus of the larger museum in the neighboring village of Newtonmore. The location Kinguisse was abandoned about 2009. Collections and museum management move to attract even property under construction modern museum building and placed by Frances Grant after Kinguisse Blackhouses in 2013 for a second time, now after Newtonmore to.
The site Newtonmore
The site Newtonmore was opened in 1995 with an area of 32 hectares of land has developed rapidly. It displays many aspects of rural life in the Highlands and receives in its collections many local cultural assets. A further object of the museum is to transfer the knowledge about life in the Highlands, both to the current generation of Highland residents, as well as to visitors from around the world.
Outdoor area and exhibitions of the museum
The grounds of the museum is divided into four mutually demarcated areas that are interconnected with an infrastructure. In this perverted by the year 2012 Oldimerbus which is no longer operational since 2013, and has since become associated as an exhibit at the museum.
The museum has a variety of reconstructed buildings from Highland settlements of the 18th century. Furthermore, some converted building from the 1930s. Livestock, museum fields and dry stone walls are found in if all parts of the museum. The museum area in detail:
The Allt Làirigh ( Aultlairie ) Farm with outbuildings
This is the easternmost part of the museum. This is it, this is the remaining in situ yard Aultlarie with house (currently museum administration and historic candy shop ) and farm buildings, a corrugated iron cottage which served as outbuildings in various functions, a multi- converted railway waiting room, a post office and a shelter hut for Shepherd. The (still under construction in 2012 ) is moderene administration and exhibition building also located in this area.
Yard Aultlarie, corrugated iron cottage
Train bus shelters
New exhibition building ( under construction 2013)
The outdoor area
This area is located in the central area of the museum underneath the counter cottage, are sold in the museum with free admission museum guides and souvenirs. It consists of a church, a school and several houses craftsmen ( carpenters, tailors and watchmakers ) from the first half of the 20th century. Hir is also the central building with restaurant and shop. The merger of the two museum locations, the IF Transferred to Grant reconstructed Black House from the old location in Kingussie and built in this area again.
Knockbain school
Schoolroom
School in
Shepherd's hut
Shepherd's hut, inside
The pine forest
This area closes to the west by the open-air area. In a red squirrel bevölkertem, angepflanztem in the 1920s pine forest there is a children 's playground with a backhoe, a water mill and a pond with a curling hut including Curling Museum. This is a copy of only a few hundred meters away and at Loch Imrich original, but disused hut of the curling clubs of Newtonmore.
View from the hut Curling
Curling hut inside
Sawmill
Baile Gean, the 18th-century settlement
Baile Gean is a reconstruction of seven houses - Blackhouses from the 18th century - the larger settlement Badenoch in the uppermost valley of the River Spey. In the summer these houses are enlivened by museum staff who re-enact the story of the villagers in period costumes.
Living History
Kiln barn
Cottars House