Shotts Heritage Centre

📌 Shotts, North Lanarkshire
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🛠️ Museum closed since the Covid-19 pandemic (checked April 2024)

This small museum is housed in Shotts town library. It’s probably fair to say that the slightly scruffy displays (someone in the past used duct tape where they shouldn’t have) about the region’s industrial heritage don’t feature on the shortlists of many visitors to Scotland, but it might be worth a (small) detour if you’re in the area. Or if you’re adding to a website about exploring off the beaten track locations in Scotland. Iron, steel and coal once underpinned the area’s economy, though all three industries are long since gone apart from the scars they’ve left on the landscape. Oh, and if you notice an almost unbearable stench in the air around the building? That’s the animal feed factory just up the road.