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This year West Highland Museum in Fort William celebrates 100 years since it held its very first Jacobite exhibition, Prince Charles Edward & the ’45 Campaign Exhibition.  Over the past century the organisation has accumulated one of the best collections of Jacobite material culture in Scotland. To acknowledge this milestone in its history the Museum successfully […]

The museum was delighted to be recently gifted military service awards that once belonged to Fort William soldier, Alexander Finlayson Beaton. The medals were donated by his daughter Maggie Hardy (nee Beaton) and granddaughter Tracy Anderson.  The World War II military service medals and badge were awarded to most servicing military personnel, but what makes

Wednesday 16th April saw the West Highland Museum presenting to it’s community and wider audience it’s extensive plans and aspirations for it’s future. Along with this was the launch of a new ‘Friends of the West Highland Museum’ programme to assist the work and redevelopment, so supporters can enjoy being a part of the next

With thanks to funding from SeachdainNaGàidhlig, the West Highland Museum & Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Loch Abar will spend an afternoon entertaining residents at a local care home. Both Moss Park and Invernevis House residents will take part in the event and enjoy music, song & stories from a class of pupils, as well a number of

 The day the Rural Education Centre in Torlundy set up a pop up Crofting table in the Commando Room and hosted a butter churning demonstration for our visitors.

To mark the return of the Royal National Mòd to Fort William this October the West Highland Museum plans to hold an exhibition to celebrate the eight occasions in which Lochaber has previously hosted the event. The museum would like to invite anyone with memorabilia associated with these occasions which they would be willing to

The West Highland Museum team are embarking on a very exciting project with an aim to redevelop the museum into a larger, more accessible, community, as well as a tourist, attraction in Fort William. To do this we need help from our local community to guide us in what, and how, you would like the

Friday evening saw the museum buzzing with guests for our ‘Jacobite evening at the museum’. It was the first event of this year’s Jacobite Festival and a wonderful evening of history, food and chat. A big thanks to Drambuie for their interesting talk on their family history, as well as tasters of cocktails expertly created

West Highland Museum has secured funding from Museum Galleries Scotland to continue its community engagement in Lochaber.  The Beyond Our Walls project (BOW) will develop and build on new ways to reach people of all ages living in Lochaber, and broaden the museum’s audiences to include those who rarely visit the museum at the moment.

We are excited to announce that Dr Bendor Grosvenor, art historian and broadcaster, who has appeared in BBC programmes such as ‘Fake or Fortune?’ and