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Exploring inside the museum

Inside the museum

Wander around our award-winning museum and find out how home life, farming and the landscape have changed in 300 years.

An inside view

Click on the slideshow below to see some of the highlights inside the museum.

Glasgow tractor Turra coo Breck of Rendell mill Bondager's outfit Ferguson tractor Shiels animal portraitsCombine store Glentanner plough Bell's model reaper

People

Find out about the story of Scotland's countryside, the people who worked the land and the massive changes that began to take place during the 18th century. See period toys and watch archive film footage of rural Scotland in the past.

Land

Follow the story of how people changed the landscape of Scotland to provide more food. Find out about Scotland’s success as modern farming techniques were introduced across the country.

Tools, tractors and combines

Find out how farming machines have increasingly replaced man in farming. We have combine harvesters, tractors, threshers and many other inventions designed to make farming life more efficient and profitable.

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Toys in the People gallery

Toys in the People gallery.

Museum tools

Looking at machinery in the Tools gallery.

Kitchen hearth in People gallery

Kitchen hearth display.

Picture gallery

Picture gallery.

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