Glencoe Folk Museum

You’ve seen them, driven past them, photographed them, marvelled at their rocky peaks and ridges, climbed them, maybe even learned to...

Across from the Ballachulish Visitor Centre, a sandstone obelisk marks the entrance to the remains of the Ballachulish Slate Quarry....

Horatio McCulloch was a Scottish landscape painter born in Glasgow in 1805. He worked as a decorative painter, a snuffbox lid painter and...

“I owe a supreme debt of gratitude to the mountain for knocking from me the shackles of conventionality.” – Lizzie le Blond The history...

In May 2022, 'Wordplay' - a local creative writing group - visited Glencoe Folk Museum for a tour and to explore the collections. Parris,...

The Ballachulish Dragon Beinn a' Bheithir - the name of the mountains which tower above the village of Ballachulish - is generally agreed...

Did you know that one possible translation of Gleann Comhann is "Glen of the Dogs"? It certainly lives up to its name! Glencoe is a...

We were asked to speak about the Ballachulish Goddess as part of the fantastic 'Highland Objects' podcast. You can listen to the podcast...

Film-makers have long been attracted to Glencoe: for classic mountain scenery that just screams “SCOTLAND!”; for atmospheric conditions;...

Think of Glencoe and you think of its grand mountains: the rocky buttresses guarding the entrance to the glen, the towering peaks, the...