📌 Kildonan, South Uist
★★★
There’s nowhere better on South Uist for a bad weather day: Kildonan Museum is the largest museum on the Uists, and indeed the second largest anywhere in the Western Isles. After a previous life as a school, the building reopened in 1998 to showcase the island’s manmade and natural heritage, as well as housing local archives, a popular cafe and a craft shop. Local trades, crofting, domestic life, the Jacobites, religion and geology are amongst the themes covered, spread across several rooms. Highlights include Kilphedar Kate: a 1,300 year-old, Pictish woman dug up by archaeologists from Sheffield University in 1998 after a burial cairn was uncovered by wave erosion a few miles south of the museum.
🌍 Location
📌 By the A865, Kildonan, South Uist
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NF 745275
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.222028,-7.395626
🚌 Bus stops outside museum
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Daily, April to October
🎫 £5 adult / free for children
