🏴 Scotland · Inner Hebrides

Culture & discovery
Isle of Skye

MacLeod and Donald clans, crofts and geology

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🏰Castles and museums3 places
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Dunvegan Castle & Gardens
Dunvegan Β· north-west

Home of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod. Castle and gardens open daily from 1 April to 15 October, with seal-watching boat trips from the castle.

Clan MacLeodGardens
🌐Official websitedunvegancastle.comβ†’
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Armadale Castle, Gardens & Museum of the Isles
Armadale Β· Sleat

Ruined castle of Clan Donald, gardens and the Museum of the Isles on the Sleat peninsula, near the Mallaig ferry. Open late March to end of October.

Clan DonaldMuseum
🌐Official websitearmadalecastle.comβ†’
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Skye Museum of Island Life
Kilmuir Β· Trotternish

Eight thatched cottages show crofting life more than a century ago. Open Easter to mid-October, Monday to Friday.

CroftingThatched roofs
🌐Official websiteskyemuseum.co.ukβ†’
πŸ¦•Nature and geology2 places
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Staffin Dinosaur Museum
Staffin Β· Trotternish

Small museum founded in 1976 by Dugald Ross: fossils, geology and Middle Jurassic dinosaur footprints found around Staffin.

DinosaursGeology
🌐Official websitestaffindinosaurmuseum.comβ†’
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Skye Ecomuseum – Druim nan Linntean
Staffin Β· Trotternish

A museum without walls linking twelve open-air sites around Staffin, including the Quiraing, Kilt Rock and the Storr, to read Trotternish's history and landscape.

Open-airQuiraing
🌐Official websiteskyeecomuseum.co.ukβ†’