The Highlanders' Museum, Ardersier

Name: The Highlanders' Museum
Address: Fort George, Ardersier, IV2 7TD, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 131 310 8701

#2 among attractions in Ardersier

Specialty museum, Museum

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The Highlanders' Museum (address: Fort George) is a place located in Ardersier (Scotland kingdom) and belongs to the category of specialty museum, museum.

It is situated at an altitude of 26 feet, and its geographical coordinates are 57°35'1"N latitude and 4°4'10"W longitude.

Among other places and attractions worth visiting in the area are: Fort George (historical place, 2 min walk), Chanonry Point, Fortrose and Rosemarkie (view point, 27 min walk), Rosemarkie Beach, Fortrose and Rosemarkie (beach, 42 min walk).

Coordinates: 57°35'1"N, 4°4'10"W

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Fort GeorgeArdersier IV2 7TD United Kingdom

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+44 131 310 8701

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The Highlanders' Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Fort George, Cawdor Castle, Fortrose Cathedral, Groam House Museum.

~210 ftW
Historical place, Forts and castles
Fort George, Ardersier
2 min walk • Fort George stands as a monumental relic of Scotland's military history, located near the village of Ardersier, northeast of Inverness. This fortress, constructed in the wake of the 1746 Battle of Culloden, was intended to secure the British government's hold over the...
6.7 miSE
Macbeth-linked 14th-century castle
Cawdor Castle, Nairn
171 min walk • Cawdor Castle is a castle in the parish of Cawdor in Nairnshire, Scotland. It is built around a 15th-century tower house, with substantial additions in later centuries.
2.3 miW
Church
Fortrose Cathedral, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
58 min walk • Fortrose Cathedral was the episcopal seat of the medieval Scottish diocese of Ross in the Highland region of Scotland. It is probable that the original site of the diocese was at Rosemarkie, but by the 13th century the canons had relocated a short distance to the south-west, to the site known as Fortrose or Chanonry.
1.8 miW
Specialty museum, Art museum, Museum
Groam House Museum, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
45 min walk • Groam House Museum is a museum of Celtic and Pictish Art. Located in the village of Rosemarkie in the Black Isle, Scotland, its collection contains both the Rosemarkie Stone, one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone, and the Rosemarkie sculpture fragments...
1.6 miW
Beach, Park, Outdoor activities
Rosemarkie Beach, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
42 min walk • The Rosemarkie Stone or Rosemarkie Cross, a Class II Pictish stone, is one of the major surviving examples of Pictish art in stone.
5.5 miSE
Forts and castles
Kilravock Castle
141 min walk • Kilravock Castle is located near the village of Croy, between Inverness and Nairn, in the council area of Highland, Scotland. It was begun around 1460 and has been the seat of the Clan Rose since that time.
6 miSE
Archaeological site
Cawdor
153 min walk • Cawdor, located near the small village of Easter Galcantray, is suspected of being one of the northernmost Roman forts in Great Britain, though this evidence is controversial.
4.1 miS
Golf, Outdoor activities, Forts and castles
Castle Stuart, Culloden
104 min walk • Castle Stuart is a restored tower house on the banks of the Moray Firth, about 6.5 miles northeast of Inverness. The land the castle was built on was granted to James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray by his half-sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, following her return to Scotland in 1561.
5.3 miS
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Dalcross Castle
136 min walk • Dalcross Castle is a restored 17th century tower house, about 1+1⁄2 miles southwest of Croy, Highland, Scotland, and about 7 miles northeast of Inverness. The castle stands on a ridge.
1.7 miW
Stela
Rosemarkie sculpture fragments
44 min walk • The Rosemarkie sculpture fragments are the Pictish slabs and stone fragments other than the main Rosemarkie Stone which have been discovered in Rosemarkie, on the Black Isle of Easter Ross. There are fourteen in all. Perhaps the most widely known is the so-called Daniel Stone.
2.3 miW
Forts and castles
Chanonry of Ross, Fortrose and Rosemarkie
58 min walk • Castle Chanonry of Ross, also known as Seaforth Castle, was located in the town of Fortrose, to the north-east of Inverness, on the peninsula known as the Black Isle, Highland, Scotland. Nothing now remains of the castle.