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WHM100: Art

The museum has an important collection of fine art and photography in its collections from the 18th to 20th centuries. It was difficult to choose…

WHM100: Sport

Sport has always been pursued enthusiastically in the Highlands and participants often take advantage of our unique landscape, whether it be for…

WHM100: Military

The museum is located in Fort William. The town is named for the fort built here in 1690 and the area has historically been of great strategic and…

WHM100: Prehistory

Our fascinating archaeology collection includes ancient pottery and metalwork, arrowheads and stonework, salvage from the wreck of a Spanish Galleon,…

WHM100: Highland Life

The rugged landscape and geographical isolation of much of the Scottish Highlands made it a relatively inaccessible place for much of its political…

WHM100: Jacobite

Lochaber is known as the cradle of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. It was here at Glenfinnan that Bonnie Prince Charlie raised his father’s Standard to…

WHM100: Victorian

The perception of the Highlands changed radically during the Victorian era. Queen Victoria popularised Highland culture and the growth of the road and…

West Highland Museum

The West Highland Museum 100 project showcases digital cultural heritage from the Western Highlands of Scotland. This collaboration between West…

Large metal lock from Fort William.

Stone Axe 3D

Stone axe 3D model

Small wooden bowl possibly for soup of porridge. It was found in the Governor's House at Fort William when the fort was demolished in 1938.

Wooden bowl 3D

wooden bowl from Governor's House.

Tree root stool 3D

3D model of tree root stool

glenfinnan stone 3d

glenfinnan stone 3d model

Corran Beaker 3D

Bronze age beaker

When land around the old fort was excavated to make way for the first rail line into Fort William in the 1890s, knives, cannon, and bullet moulds were…

Fort William cannonball

Small cannonball from Fort William. Located in the West Highland Museum in Fort William.

Stills

These images were created as part of the Highland Threads digital exhibition - an online collection curated from fourteen Highland museum collections…

WHM sequence with sound

These images were created as part of the Highland Threads digital exhibition - an online collection curated from fourteen Highland museum collections…

Jon Schueler's Romasaig Studio

Jon Schueler's studio at Romasaig near Mallaig. This was Schueler’s Scottish home and studio which was formerly an old schoolhouse in Glasnacardoch,…

Blog by Madga Salvesen, Curator Jon Schueler Estate

Blog looking at the history of the mort safe