Highland Folk Museum
The Highland Folk Museum is an open-air museum and visitor attraction in Newtonmore, in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom.Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
September 1st—October 31st: 10:30 AM—4:00 PM
March 29th—August 31st: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM - Type: Park
- Description: open-air museum in Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “High Life Highland”
- Address: Newtonmore
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Newtonmore railway station and Clan Macpherson Museum.
Newtonmore railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newtonmore railway station serves the village of Newtonmore, Highland, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line. The station is 68 miles 62 chains from Perth, between Dalwhinnie and Kingussie, and has a single platform which is long enough for a ten-coach train. Newtonmore railway station is situated 1 mile southwest of Highland Folk Museum.
Clan Macpherson Museum
Museum
Photo: Drnoble, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clan Macpherson Museum is situated 1 mile southwest of Highland Folk Museum.
Kingussie railway station
Railway station
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingussie railway station serves the town of Kingussie, Inverness-shire in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line, 71 miles 43 chains from Perth, between Newtonmore and Aviemore. Kingussie railway station is situated 2 miles east of Highland Folk Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newtonmore and Kingussie.
Newtonmore
Village
Newtonmore is a village of approximately 1100 inhabitants in Badenoch, within the Highland council area of Scotland. The village is only a few miles from a location that is claimed to be the exact geographical centre of Scotland.
Kingussie
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kingussie is a town in Speyside in the central Scottish Highlands, with a population of 1470 in 2020. The Spey valley here broadens into a "strath" as it emerges from the hills, and turns north.
Insh
Village
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Insh is a village in Highland, Scotland that lies on the east coast of the Insh Marshes. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey area, around 3+1⁄2 miles east of Kingussie, in the Spey valley. Insh is situated 6 miles east of Highland Folk Museum.
Highland Folk Museum
- Categories: open-air museum, museum, independent museum, tourism, and recreation area
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.06869° or 57° 4′ 7″ northLongitude
-4.10344° or 4° 6′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C9Q3V9W+FJOpenStreetMap ID
way 92412623OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q2287126
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Highland Folk Museum” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Highland Folk Museum”
- Danish: “Highland Folk Museum”
- Dutch: “Highland Folk Museum”
- Finnish: “Highland Folk Museum”
- French: “Highland Folk Museum”
- German: “Highland Folk Museum”
- Northern Sami: “Highland Folk Museum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Highland Folk Museum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Highland Folk Museum”
- Swedish: “Highland Folk Museum”
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