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Atholl Country Life Museum

Highland Perthshire


This eccentric collection housed in the old village school celebrates local life through the ages, with exhibits ranging from a letter from a Canadian emigrant written on birch bark to a reconstruction of a 1930s post office. The museum also houses a Cairngorms National Park information point.


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