Highland Folk Museum

The Highland Folk Museum is an outdoor museum that showcases how people lived in the Highlands from the 1700s through the 1950s. Even more impressive, the structures are originals brought from all over Scotland to be displayed here. There were several interpreters along the way and a fully-stocked sweets shop! The children attended school in the one room schoolhouse and got to try their hand at writing with a quill and ink. There was a very interesting display on Britain during WWII and what rations you would have been allowed for one adult as food for the week. We even saw wagon wheels just like the one at our house in Lake Tahoe.

One of the most interesting thing we learned from one of the interpreters was that there are two forms of "Gaelic."  Irish Gaelic (pronounced gay-lick) has been simplified and homogenized for broader use in Ireland. Scottish Gaelic (pronounced gah-lick) has more words and is closer to the language spoken historically.  It is readily distinguishable by the pronunciation of the word which of the two languages was being spoken.

The museum had experienced a few solid days of rain prior to our visit, so unfortunately the 17th century village re-creation was closed due to flooding, but it was neat seeing how people lived during times in later in the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s through to WWII.