Places to Go

Hugh Miller Museum and Birthplace Cottage (NTS)
Opening times: 1 May to end September, Sun-Wed 1-5
Also guided tours and visits outwith normal opening hours (contact museum)
Church Street
Cromarty  IV11 8XA
telephone: 01381 600245
fax: 01381 600796
website: www.nts.org.uk/Property/34 and www.hughmiller.org
email
What you can see:
   →An elegant three-storey Georgian villa housing six rooms of exhibits covering Hugh Miller's life and work
   →The thatched 18th century cottage next door where he was born
   →Miller's Yard: Garden of Wonders

Cromarty Courthouse Museum
Open from 3 April with a return of the acclaimed 'From the Fishertown' exhibition.
May bank holiday sees the launch of a summer exhibition to celebrate the centenary of writer Jane Duncan's birth.
Church Street
Cromarty  IV11 8XA
telephone: 01381 600418
email
website: www.cromarty-courthouse.org.uk
What you can do:
   →See a trial from the 1770s in the original courtroom, with life-like animated models and voices of local people.
   →Understand the real history of the North of Scotland and the lives of its people
   →Explore the town with a personal digital audiotour
   →Use the museum's extensive records to make your own discoveries in Highland history
   →Hold your civil wedding ceremony in the Courthouse
 

'Hugh Miller Cottage' by Calum Davidson