Tain & District Museum, Tain

Name: Tain & District Museum
Address: Tower St, Tain, IV19 1DZ, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1862 894089

#1 among attractions in Tain

Top attraction, Specialty museum, History museum, Museum

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The Tain & District Museum, is located in Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland. It is volunteer-run and is open April to October part of the Tain Through Time visitor centre. The museum was established in 1966 and has a collection of silver made in the local area. ()

Established: 1966 (58 years ago)Coordinates: 57°48'45"N, 4°3'19"W

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Tower StTain IV19 1DZ United Kingdom

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+44 1862 894089

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Tain & District Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Skibo Castle, Dornoch Cathedral, Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Dornoch Castle.

5.1 miNW
Forts and castles
Skibo Castle, Dornoch
129 min walk • Skibo Castle is located to the west of Dornoch in the Highland county of Sutherland, Scotland overlooking the Dornoch Firth. Although largely of the 19th century and early 20th century, when it was the home of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, its origins go back much earlier.
4.8 miN
Sacred and religious sites, Church
Dornoch Cathedral, Dornoch
122 min walk • Dornoch Cathedral is a former cathedral and is now a Church of Scotland parish church serving the small Sutherland town of Dornoch, in the Scottish Highlands.
4.7 miN
57°52'44"N • 4°1'23"W
Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Dornoch
121 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
4.7 miN
Shopping, Reportedly haunted, Forts and castles
Dornoch Castle, Dornoch
121 min walk • Dornoch Castle is situated opposite Dornoch Cathedral in the town of Dornoch, in Sutherland, Scotland, a little over 40 miles north of Inverness. As of 2021, the castle was operated as a family-run hotel with 24 rooms.
3 miNW
Bridge
Dornoch Firth Bridge
78 min walk • The Dornoch Firth Bridge is a road bridge over the Dornoch Firth, carrying traffic between Tain and Dornoch.
6.6 miSE
Stela
Clach a' Charridh
168 min walk • The Clach a' Charridh or Shandwick Stone is a Class II Pictish stone located near Shandwick on the Tarbat peninsula in Easter Ross, Scotland. It is a scheduled monument.
4.6 miW
Stela
Edderton Cross Slab
119 min walk • Edderton Cross Slab is a Class III Pictish stone standing in the old graveyard of the village of Edderton, Easter Ross. The stone is of red sandstone.
4.7 miN
57°52'47"N • 4°2'7"W
Historylinks Museum, Dornoch
120 min walk • History museum, Museum
2.1 miNW
Stela
Ardjachie Stone
54 min walk • The Ardjachie Stone is an uncut but decorated red sandstone boulder discovered by farmers in 1960 on the Ardjachie Farm in the Tarbat peninsula of Easter Ross. It now stands outside of the museum of Tain. On it are depicted several dozen cup or ring marks probably dating to the Bronze Age.
5 miW
Distillery, Whiskey distillery
Balblair distillery
128 min walk • Balblair Distillery is a Scotch whisky distillery located in Edderton, Ross-shire, Scotland. Founded in 1790, the distillery was rebuilt in 1895 by the designer Charles C Doig to be closer to the Edderton Railway Station on the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway line.
6.6 miSE
Village
Balintore
168 min walk • Balintore is a village near Tain in Easter Ross, Scotland. It is one of three villages on this northern stretch of the Moray Firth coastline - Hilton, Balintore, and Shandwick are known collectively as the Seaboard Villages.