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Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre
Heritage museum
👍👍 19/5/23. Thank you very much for a very interesting and informative visit. We apologise for holding you all back. Dave was very helpful and knowledgeable. The exhibits are amazing. It was definitely worth the entrance fee. Mostly flat area, Disabled friendly.
My wife and I would highly recommend a v...
4.70 (525 reviews)
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Orkney Fossil & Heritage Centre
Heritage museum
👍👍 This place should be renamed as it's so much more than just a fossil museum. The World War history with the floor map of Scapa Flow showing the WW1 scuttling of the German fleet, and WW2 the route taken by UB40 which sunk Royal Oak, and the model of the 3rd barrier, really brought home and made easy...
4.60 (291 reviews)
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Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries
Museum
👍👍 My favourite library. I have visited so many libraries in my lifetime and I cannot seem to find a better one than this. The staff are lovely, building is fantastic and there is a very wide range of books. I love that the childrens' section is in a separate area to the main library as it makes studyi...
4.60 (94 reviews)
4
Stewartry Museum
Local history museum
Free museum open since 1893 displaying regional artefacts, archives & photography.
4.60 (83 reviews)
5
Museum on the Mound
Museum
Museum tracing the design and history of money, with exhibits including Scotland's oldest banknote.
4.50 (668 reviews)
7
Auld Kirk Museum
Local history museum
👍 Good little museum with good information about the towns past and connections to the Romans.
4.50 (45 reviews)
8
Maryhill Burgh Halls
Museum
Restored Victorian building, community & events space with an on-site museum & cafe
$ $$$
4.50 (40 reviews)
9
People's Palace
History museum
Exhibits describing Glasgow's industrial past & the local vernacular, plus an on-site cafe.
4.40 (3.4K reviews)
10
Museum of Edinburgh
Local history museum
Reproductions of the city's social and industrial history in a cluster of fine historic buildings.
4.40 (2.7K reviews)
11
The People's Story Museum
Local history museum
The 16th-century Tolbooth houses a social history museum tracing city life since the late 1700s.
4.40 (553 reviews)
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Timespan
Local history museum
👍👍 Amazing local museum that's just been shortlisted for museum of the year! Now in the top 5, final will be announced later in September. The upstairs of the museum still not open but really good displays downstairs explaining the history of the area. Lovely shop and amazing cafe on the banks of the r...
4.40 (282 reviews)
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Old Gala House
Local history museum
😐 The grounds are lovely great to sit in eating peace watching fountain. Inside is alot of steps so sadly I couldn't go up to see all there was a chair but it was to much for me to do a chair at 39 I'm still dealing with my mobility issues. The man working there .made me uncomfortable on arrival a h...
4.40 (75 reviews)
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Provan Hall
Heritage museum
👍 Architect unknown
Category A listed
This was the country seat of the medieval prebend (a sort of large parish) of Barlanark. The priest who lived here would spend six months each year preaching at Glasgow Cathedral and the other six here. Two buildings sit across a courtyard with whinstone walls co...
4.40 (45 reviews)
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Hunterston Castle
Historical landmark
👍 Lovely countryside here with views across the sea to Isle of Arran and the Cumbraes.
The original castle looks like a traditional square keep with other parts added on in later years.
There's also a large mansion house nearby and a garden feature called a Ha-Ha wall.
The area is popular with walkers...
4.40 (45 reviews)
16
John Knox House
Local history museum
Puritan reformer's home dating from 1470 now hosting storytelling tours and historic exhibits.
4.20 (379 reviews)
17
Inverness Castle
Castle
This 1800s red sandstone castle overlooks the cliffs & offers lush grounds open to the public.
4.10 (4.3K reviews)
18
Atholl Palace Museum
Local history museum
😠 Boring tiny museum (a corridor basically)
Not worth going out of your way to visit. Maybe if you're staying in the hotel it'll kill 5 mins
4.00 (37 reviews)