Kilmartin Museum offers you the chance to journey back through 12,000 years, bringing our ancestors’ stories to life in bold and captivating ways.
Located at the heart of an internationally important landscape on the west coast of Scotland, Kilmartin Museum cares for and displays fascinating ancient artefacts close to the sites where they were discovered. Among our treasures are some of Scotland’s earliest examples of Beaker pottery, incredible quartz tools used to make mysterious prehistoric rock art, and stunningly crafted early metalwork.
In 2019, just over half of the 22,000 artefacts in our Collections were awarded Nationally Significant status by Museums Galleries Scotland and an independent panel of experts. A huge accolade of which we are very proud. Our re-opening in September 2023, following a major capital project, marked the first time many of these important and fascinating artefacts were publicly displayed.
The exhibition features stunning objects loaned to us by National Museums Scotland, the British Museum, Historic Environment Scotland and Argyll and Bute Council. They include beautiful Bronze Age jewellery, symbols of power from the age of the warrior kings of Dunadd, and intricately sculpted medieval crosses. Together with the Museum's collections, these constitute one of the most comprehensive assemblages of ancient artefacts to be displayed in the landscape where they were found.
