Gairloch Heritage Museum


This museum has interesting displays on life in the West Highlands from Pictish times to the present, including locally built fishing boats and a faithful recreation of a crofter's cottage. It will close at the end of the 2018 season and relocate after a redevelopment of a former anti-aircraft battery 200m south of here.


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