Museums & Galleries · Scotland
Highland Folk Museum
📍 PH20 1AY
Photo: highlifehighland.com
- Over 35 reconstructed historical buildings to explore
- Meet costumed interpreters demonstrating Highland life
- Browse traditional sweets in old-fashioned Kirk's Store
- Café serving homemade cakes and light lunches
- Gift shop with Highland crafts and local heritage items
Highland Folk Museum is an open-air museum in Newtonmore, Scotland, where you can wander through over 35 reconstructed historical buildings and meet costumed interpreters demonstrating how Highland communities lived, worked and played from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. It's a full day out well suited to families, with a café for homemade cakes and light lunches, a gift shop, and an old-fashioned sweetie shop to browse. On-site parking is available, and well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome outdoors. The museum is close to Newtonmore station, just 0.9 miles away, and with 25 bookable places to stay within 5 miles on BritStays, it's a convenient base for exploring the wider Highlands.
Practical details
- Parking
- On-site parking available for cars, motorhomes/minibuses and coaches
- Dogs
- Well-behaved dogs on leads welcome outdoors
- Accessibility
- Accessible parking, toilets and level access to main entrance and café
- Best for
- A full day out suitable for all the family
From the attraction's own website on 21 Sep 2026 — check before you travel.
Facilities
- ✓ Restaurant
- ✓ Cafe
- ✓ Toilets
- ✓ Disabled Access
- ✓ Gift Shop
- ✓ Pet Friendly
- ✓ Parking
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The Bakehouse At Caman House
Kingussie, Northern Scotland
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£780 per break
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🚆 Or come by train
- Newtonmore 0.9 miles
- Kingussie 2 miles
- Dalwhinnie 10.7 miles
Straight-line distances · live departures on each station page