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Historic Balhousie Castle is both the home of The Black Watch and the unique setting for their regimental museum. The castle was owned by the Hay family, the Earls of Kinnoull. The Seventh Earl and his heir were imprisoned in...

A museum of Scottish catholic history with important collections from the former Scots Colleges throughout Europe. The significant collection of Jacobite items includes many portraits.

The Camerons have lived in Lochaber since the 14th century. Achnacarry House is the seat of the Clan Cameron and home of Cameron of Lochiel. The Museum in the grounds of the house traces the history of the Clan from...

Clan Donnachaidh (the 'Children of Duncan'), made up of Robertsons, Duncans, Reids and other surnames, is closely associated with an area stretching from Rannoch in the west of Perthshire to the border with Angus in the east. It played an...

The Clan Macpherson Museum displays the important role of the clan during the Jacobite Risings of the eighteenth century, led first by Lachlan (17th Chief) and later by Ewan Òg (18th Chief). Ewen led the Clan in the 1745 Rising...

In the aftermath of Killiecrankie the victorious Jacobites moved south to attack the government's garrison at Dunkeld on 21 August 1689. The Cameronian regiment fortified the cathedral and held them off, although their colonel, William Cleland, was killed and is...

Ruined cliff top castle home to the chiefs of Clan MacDougall until the building of the adjacent 1745 House now a museum. The castle was forfeit to the crown after clan support for the 1715 rising but returned later. The...

Scotland's Oldest Independent Museum (1843). Has a number of items with Jacobite links including an 18th century travelling cutlery set owned by Robertson of Struan, one of the Jacobite commanders in the Forty-Five, Jacobite era Highland weapons, items that are...

Britain's first open-air museum. The site has a large collection of re-located historic buildings. One of its four themed areas is ‘Baile Gean’ the Museum’s unique re-construction of an early 1700s Highland township of a type that would have been...