Detailing the lives and times of the Highland region, the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery focuses on natural history, archaeology and local history. Artefacts include Pictish stones, Highland wildlife, Jacobite memorabilia, Highland silver and costumes.
Thr permanent exhibition on the ground floor investigates the effects of human activity on the Highlands, including hunting, shooting and fishing, farming, croft living and town life. Artefacts such as the 6th-century Pictish carved stone, nicknamed the Ardross Wolf, bring thousands of years of history alive.
The art gallery offers a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions that explores art both historical, such as 300 years of Inverness centred around paintings by JMW Turner, and contemporary.
The hands-on Learning Zone, specially developed for kids, offers new and exciting ways of exploring 1000 or so of the permanent treasures in the museum's collection, which can be handled, examined, explored, sniffed, tried on, read, touched, investigated and enjoyed. Also included are a video macroscope to project objects onto a large screen, a computer-controlled rooftop camera, the chance to monitor a weather satellite that receives reports from around the globe and a quern stone for grinding corn.
There is also a dressing up box and, under supervision, a wardrobe of replica historical costumes to try on, even a sand pit with tools for kids to excavate and search for buried treasures!
The art gallery offers a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions that explores art both historical, such as 300 years of Inverness centred around paintings by JMW Turner, and contemporary.
The hands-on Learning Zone, specially developed for kids, offers new and exciting ways of exploring 1000 or so of the permanent treasures in the museum's collection, which can be handled, examined, explored, sniffed, tried on, read, touched, investigated and enjoyed. Also included are a video macroscope to project objects onto a large screen, a computer-controlled rooftop camera, the chance to monitor a weather satellite that receives reports from around the globe and a quern stone for grinding corn.
There is also a dressing up box and, under supervision, a wardrobe of replica historical costumes to try on, even a sand pit with tools for kids to excavate and search for buried treasures!