Lenci Doll, Hitler Youth MovementHighland Museum of Childhood This blonde-haired doll is originally from Germany and is modelled on a young member of the Hitler Youth Movement. This was an organisation set up by Adolf Hitler in 1933 to train and educate German...
Ups and Downs in India Board GameHighland Museum of Childhood This board game was produced by the Homeland Training College in 1930. Though aspects of it may surprise us today, it was intended as a fun way to learn about the duties and responsibilities of living and...
Taxidermy OspreyGrantown Museum Fossil evidence shows that osprey had been in Scotland around twelve thousand years ago, at the start of the Mesolithic period. However, during the nineteenth century, this migratory bird was hunted to the point of extinction in Great...
Fish FossilNairn Museum This unusual object is actually a fossilised ‘armoured’ fish from the Middle Devonian period, which is often termed ‘the Age of the Fishes’. It was towards the end of the Devonian period that fish crawled out onto land and would...
Henry III Long Cross PennyCromarty Courthouse Museum This coin is one of many silver coins that have been found by metal detectorists in the fields above Cromarty in the last few years. They have been found in the fields where the medieval annual fair was held along...
