The Best Parlour, The Highland Folk Museum, Kingussie
ID:KIGHF_HF_10_4_007DESCRIPTION:On 4 August 1930, the Highland Exhibition opened in Inverness. The display of over 2,000 objects and documents, representing many aspects of Highland history and culture, was primarily the work of Miss Isabel F. Grant, historian and author, who had been inspired by visits to open-air folk museums in Scandinavia. At the close of the exhibition, some of the artefacts were acquired as the start of a collection of a folk museum for the Highlands and for Gaelic culture.
Isabel Grant continued collecting everyday objects, tools and machinery and eventually founded the Highland Folk Museum in 1935 on the Island of Iona. She named it Am Fasgadh (Gaelic: ‘The Shelter’). By 1939 the collection had outgrown its island home and was moved to a disused church at Laggan, Inverness-shire.
The need for a more permanent site led to Dr Grant purchasing a three-acre site in Kingussie and on the 1st of June 1944, the Highland Folk Museum was officially opened. Over the years the site was developed to incorporate three replica buildings, including a Hebridean blackhouse.
In the early 1980s the Highland Folk Museum, now owned by The Highland Council, acquired an eighty-acre site in Newtonmore where an open air, living history museum was established which includes a re-construction of an early 1700s Highland Township as well several buildings of a later date.
In 2013 a new purpose-built storage facility, Am Fasgadh was completed and over the next year the remaining collection was moved from Kingussie. Am Fasgadh houses over 10,000 accessioned items along with a conservation laboratory, research areas, library, meeting rooms and offices.
PLACENAME:Highland Folk MuseumOLD COUNTY/PARISH:INVERNESS: Kingussie and InshSOURCE:Highland Folk MuseumCOLLECTION:Highland Folk Museum Photographic CollectionAsset ID:42451KEYWORDS:
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