Clan Mackenzie Designed BoxGairloch Museum This decorative wooden box features the stag of the Mackenzie crest with the Gaelic motto ‘Cuidich ‘n Righ’, meaning ‘Help the King.’ It alludes to the exciting story concerning Colin Fitzgerald, the first chieftain...
Glencoe’s Own Ballachulish GoddessGlencoe Folk Museum In the winter of 1880, lying deep under peat, the mysterious Ballachulish figure was discovered. Hewn from a single piece of alder wood, with pebbles for her eyes, the original carving is almost life-sized, at a...
Plaster Cast of the Design for the John Cobb Memorial Groam House Museum On the 29th September 1952, a crowd gathered to watch racing driver John Cobb attempt to break the world speed record, this time on water. Cobb already held the world record for the fastest speed...
Belemnite Fossils Seaboard Centre Belemnites lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (the Jurassic Period began about 201 million years ago and the Cretaceous Period ended about 66 million years ago). The fossilised remains of their hard bullet-like tail...
