Very good experience. It was the only prison in Scotland from 1888. Before that, the convicts were send to England. The audio guide is brilliant. You see all the prison and of course you wish you will never get there. The stories are also amazing. The local food from the buffet are tasty..imagine eating in a prison. Almost 2 hours spent there even though we were in hurry.

What an interesting place to go to visit. Very cold inside so wear a jacket ! The staff working there are very friendly. Well worth the entrance fee which was not that expensive. It also has a great cafe !

Love going here! The staff are friendly and welcoming! Good facilities and the cafe is lush too! Bring a jumper because it can be cold :)

Absolutely amazing! Great place to visit to understand some fascinating history of this famous jail. Thoroughly recommend a trip here! The audio tour is really easy to use and follow. Great day out with lots of interesting stories and facts of the life of prisoners that served time here. Very disabled friendly with lots of seats available throughout the tour, which I found extremely helpful due to my physical disability. There is a lift to get up to the cafe, so I think there is a way for wheelchair users to get around too. Fantastic day 😁

Really good place to visit. Would be even better if you could go upstairs and wonder for a bit but regardless it was still good and interesting. Caffee could be better with more sitting. I understand that there is sociap distancing in place but few tables outside would be nice.

Just visited Peterhead prison museum. Absolutely brilliant. Walking round listening to the stories and sounds of prison life was so interesting. You can walk round at your own pace and there are bonus stories to listen to if you like. Lovely, friendly staff, thoroughly recommend.

Bucket list and didn't disappoint... Fascinating.... Staff lovely, really enjoyed 🙂

This is probably one of the best museums I've been to and it's very reasonably priced too. When you enter the museum you are given a head set and controller so you can listen to the information at your own pace. It is definitely an eye opener to how prison life has changed throughout the years! There is also a small cafe near the end of the tour and the cakes are amazing. Definitely worth a visit 5*

Great tour with interactive headphones providing information and stories from former guards. All staff that we encountered were very friendly and happy to chat and give more information. Highly recommend 👍

Brilliant!! Wasn't sure what to expect here, but it's a very well thought out museum visit and very interesting. The headsets provided are an absolute must. The staff are very pleasant, there's a shop and cafe too. The lifeboat at the end of the visit was just the cherry on the cake. 🍒🍰 Well worth a visit. 👌

Fantastic day here total insight into what it would be like to be in prison! Plenty to see when you wander round this disused prison ....creepy feeling too. Would def recommend a visit

Such an amazing experience! I would like the first floor of the prisons to be visitable as well. Just wonderful!

What an amazing place. Historic and eerie full of real life accounts you will be totally blown away. The audio guide is excellent you can stop and start as you please. You wonder freely around the prison and explore in your own time. A fascinating place to visit.

Really enjoyed visiting the museum. We paid in advance on the Internet, you save a bit of money doing this. We came at about 10am, the place was nearly empty. It was really interesting to see what life was like on the inside. I don't use audio guides often but this one was really interesting and concise. Took us about 2 hours to visit it.

Fabulous afternoon out. Loved the audio recording to go round at your own pace. Really friendly staff and informative on questions asked. Loved the shop, spent a fortune lol.

Great insight into how hard it must be , so makes you wonder why they re-affend !!

Really worth it with continuing expansion of the museum always good for a revisit

A fun few hours with an authentic experience. Recommended

Great bit of history

It was quite an experience. It's definitely worth stopping by.

Well worth a visit. We had a great time and experience.

Fantastic place to visit and the staff where so friendly and helpful. The staff in the cafe great team and lovely cup of tea.

One of the most interesting museums I've ever been too. Great family afternoon out, my wife and teenage boys enjoyed it too. Staff were excellent and very friendly from the entrance, all through the visit and in the cafe, which was very nice. Can't recommend highly enough and only £20 for a family ticket. Great value.

Really worth a visit. Lots to hear on the audio.

Took a visit to the old Peterhead Prison which closed in 2013 after 125 years in operation, it was converted into a Museum opening in June 2016. Infamously known for being notorious and once home to some of Scotland's most dangerous, it provides a detailed look into its history and the grim conditions which led to the riot of October 1987.. On my visit to the museum I was fortunate enough to meet Jackie Stuart who was held hostage for five days during the riot and he signed a copy of his book for me, a very pleasant man. It is situated in a remote area between Fraserburgh and Aberdeen but if nothing ever gets done with Barlinnie after it closes then this will be the the only place to go.. Definitely worth the visit.

This is a fascinating look at the prison system throughout the years. With no waits and some pretty gruesome tails we spent most of the morning and had a nice lunch there. The audio tour was interesting and easy to navigate the staff were friendly and very helpful.

Update- Took my son back again, this time to do the brand new View from Above, tour. Wow, absolutely incredible. To be able to go to the upper levels and learn in detail how and why the riot started was amazing. Loved every minute of it. Highly recommend. Took my 11 year old son, and we both loved. So interesting. Staff are super friendly and helpful. Not expensive. Loved the headsets for listening as you walk round

It's just fine, interesting history and friendly staff. I which you could se a little more og the prison cells and other things. But by the end of the day a fine experience.

Brilliant place to visit - gives an excellent insight to prison life. The audio headsets were the best we've experienced on self guided tours. All the commentary points are well marked and you can go at your own pace. It is mostly inside but you go outside to cross to the hospital block. Being next to the sea it can be cold so better to be prepared for this. There is an excellent cafe at the end of the tour aptly named The Cell View. Very friendly staff in reception, shop and cafe. Would highly recommend this if you are anywhere near in the area. A welcome change from the castles and gardens that we usually visit.

Both fascinating and terrifying. Its not been too "museumed" basically it is as it was when it closed. We went mid December, it was freezing ... dress up warm. Apparently it s chilly even in summer. It feels like a terrible place to be in (as a prisoner). Excellent use of mannequins. Great audio tour. Nice wee cafe ... in winter the big cafe isn't open.

This place is of historical interest and is well worth seeing. At the end of the tour there is a cafe which you can visit without doing the tour. Lovely food, freshly made and friendly staff. I had a delicious lunch this visit and recommend it for anyone living in the area to support. You won't be disappointed.

I recently visited the Peterhead Prison Museum and took part in the guided tour with pre-recorded audio, The tour was pretty fascinating, and the audio excellent, having been in this prison in the 70s myself it was kind of surreal to see it in its current state, so quiet and eerie compared to the actual noise and mayhem that I experienced and remembered, great tour tho and you might ask why I’d come back after being in it well the answer is plain and simple that although it was a bad experience at the time it wasn’t all doom and gloom, The stories were engaging but my memories were much more interesting tho not for public airing, as they say what happens in Peterhead stays in Peterhead. I highly recommend this tour to anyone interested in learning about the history of the prison, only downside for me was I couldn’t get upstairs to see my old “Peter” but at least this time I could walk back out at my leisure, oh and give the wee Cafe a try if you’ve got time though not sure if they serve porridge or not lol….

Very interesting place, well worth a visit, so much history. Today's prisoners get it easy compared to those of yesteryear. Not to be missed 🙂

We have been wanting to visit here for a while after seeing such brilliant reviews and it didn’t let us down! My husband and I were so pleasantly surprised by the experience we had this weekend. The headphones and audio guide (that are included in the entrance fee of £12pp) are fantastic. Informative and succinct details that really give you an insight into life in the prison from 1880s all the way to 2013 when it shut. The scents that we are convinced were added to certain rooms certainly added to the immersive experience👃🏼and all the staff were wonderful and very welcoming. We were fortunate enough to meet Mr Jackie Stewart and buy his book which tells such a fascinating story of the riots in 1987 and his miraculous escape at the hands of the prisoners. A true credit to the SPS!! We also visited the cafe for our lunch which was fantastic and exactly what we needed after the tour. We will definitely be recommending the museum to everyone we know.

A great place to visit. You can learn a lot and see a lot. A lot of facilities are available. You get an audio set which guides you through. There's also a café and a shop. An awesome visit

Such a brilliant place. Visited with 2 teenagers and 2 elderly and all ages loved this place. Really informative, the headphones were great and so much to see and learn about. The staff were also so friendly and informative. Thank you.

Really interesting place to visit, audio tour is good, the tour gives a great insight into prison life through the decades at this prison, gives the visitor lots to think about. Definitely go and visit if you are in the area.

Lovely well informed visit. Excellent cafe to, and history of Peterhead lifeboat at end. Well worth a visit.

Great, self guided tour.

Nice ladies at the reception, very informative, learnt so much about the prison in days gone by. Grandson 11 years old and took all information in telling his mum about it when we got him home. Well done.

Great day out

Interesting to get a walk round the old prison, audio guide is good too. Small cafe at the end but nice bowl of soup to warm you up after a chilly day. Be warned that it's quite cold even inside the old buildings!

Great experience.

Really fantastic couple of hours. A great attraction that i wish i had visited sooner. Tour is done at your own pace with headphones and audio pack to describe various parts of the old prison. Some great stories of all kinds that go with the tour. Not for young ones, might get bored or scared!! I had 2 teenage boys with me and they thought it was magic.

Very enjoyable tour.

Absolutely excellent museum..so informative and really great to learn about. I took my 13 year old son and he loved it...absolutely fantastic!!

Great experience for all the family, well set up and very interesting

Unbelievable 3 hrs with a 7yr old who was also enthralled.very friendly cafe with excellent choice and amazing value. super friendly staff.a real must see attraction for anybody.will definitely revisit.thank you.

A great day out, very informative using the headsets provided. The tour is laid out very well and easy to follow. Some things seen looks brutal, living conditions etc but a cracking thing to see so close to home. Loved it all and all the staff were very friendly. A must if in peterhead

A great day out for everyone, audio tour is excellent. Sandwich and soup highly recommended at the end of the tour and reasonably priced cafe. Highly recommended for a day out.

This is a great museum ! It's fascinating to walk around the cell blocks, and get an insight into being a prisoner and what it was like to work there. The audio guide is excellent. Each topic is a few minutes only so not tedious or boring. It does feel gross as well, to see / hear some of stories but so much better for having this, I'd say. Very good cafe too.

If you like a good prison museum, this is for you. Well curated and carefully thought through. Headphone guides take you through the history of this convict prison

Brilliant tour with great audio and information available to really a get a great feel for how prison life must have been. Would highly reccomend a visit if you are visiting or holidaying nearby.

Well worth a visit, really interesting to see and listen to the stories with the headsets. Staff are very friendly and helpful. Highly recommended.

Well worth a visit, really interesting. Headsets and audio tour provided which you can listen to in any order and at your own pace. Hear all about living conditions,guard working conditions and all about the Peterhead siege and subsequent SAS rescue.On site cafe and gift shop.In these strange times it is also very well thought out and sanitized for our current covid-19 world. Go visit you won't be disappointed.

excellant

Excellent tour and information given. Well worth a visit! Also the Cafe' was very well managed and complies with COVID controls.

Fab really enjoyed it .. Very helpful staff .. Covid secured 5 star

Great tour interesting place nice cafe near the end

Very interesting visit.

Very enjoyable and informative. We have been to Alcatraz,this is better Can you put this guy away for a while?? Thank you also for a lovely lunch. The lady server, cook was very good. Cullen Skink absolutely delicious. Thank you.

Great museum to visit. very interesting and great friendly service from a nice young man in the cafe well worth visiting 🙂

Wow what an experience showing how prisoners lived until 2012 when new prison opened. Thank God I'm on the straight n narrow n a woman

Very interesting

Excellent museum, good Covid arrangements with clear signage, nice cafe with Floyd service and ace cakes. The audio guide with the tour is really well put together.

Interesting and informative without too much information

Very interesting, sobering experience. Staff are very welcoming

Very interesting would recommend 👍

Interesting visit and insight.

Great way to spend an afternoon. Very interesting visit.

Looks like a prison fishy

I enjoyed it. We went as a spur of the moment idea and was better than I thought it would be. Staff were friendly enough, tour was enjoyable and enlightening.

Loved it,very educational