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Welcome to Kilmartin House Museum
There are more than 350 ancient monuments within a six-mile radius of the village of Kilmartin, Argyll: 150 of them are prehistoric. This extraordinary concentration and diversity of monuments distinguishes the Kilmartin Glen as an area of outstanding archaeological importance. It is one of Scotland’s richest prehistoric landscapes. Kilmartin House Museum is an award winning world-class centre for archaeology and landscape interpretation established to protect, investigage and interpret this internationally important archaeological landscape and the artefacts that have been found here. At this unique and vibrant centre you can also see ‘The Valley of Ghosts’ audio-visual – a time travelling experience with breath taking imagery and haunting music. There is an on site shop and an award winning cafe. To find out more, explore our web site, wander through our interactive map and see what's on our Events Programme.
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The Museum is now closed for the winter and will reopen on 1st March 2010 at 10am. The cafe will also be closed during this period but the restaurant will be open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 6pm to 9pm from 15th Janaury. There will also be a number of themed evenings in the restaurant during January and February, please check the Events Calendar for details.
The Museum will be offering 2 workshops in February, a Toasty Toes felt slipper making workshop and a Gaelic language celebration day. Full details of these, and all other events at the Museum during the first quarter of 2010, are contained in the first quarter events' programme which is available to download from this page of the website.
Treasure Trove
Thank you to everyone who donated money to enable the Museum to purchase the 17th century West Highland jewellery and the Dunstaffnage assemblage. We are pleased to announce that we reached our target to purchase these items and were successful in bidding for these items. Any donations received after the total required was met have been ringfenced for future Treasure Trove bids.
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Take an i-pod walk of the Glen! |
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 As well as featuring on the recent BBC series called 'A History of Scotland', Radio Scotland and the Open University have created a guided walk of Kilmartin Glen which you can download onto your i-pod!
Neil Oliver again features as the presenter and he is joined by a number of writers and scholars with a wealth of experience about the area. For more information click here to see the Radio Scotland information and pictures on the walk.
To download the walk onto your i-pod so you can stroll around the Glen and feel surrounded by experts click here!
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