Aberdeenshire Museum Headquarters

Overview

Have a guided tour of the stores and look at collections from archaeology to agriculture, costume and textiles, natural history, ethnography and geology and more! Inside this unassuming building on a Mintlaw industrial estate lies a world of treasure waiting to be discovered. Objects from all over the world, and spanning millions of years are stored and conserved here. Whatever your area of interest, we have something to show you - whether peat spades or porcelain, Bronze Age axes or Victorian underwear, an Egyptian Mummy's head or a King penguin"....
A friendly and enthusiastic member of staff will show you around the collections, and also give you a glimpse of how everything works 'behind the scenes at the museum'. The conservation laboratory, where history meets science as our conservator cares for our material heritage. The photography studio, where objects are presented in their best light to be entered onto the online database, along with the careful research and documentation carried out in order to understand each object fully.
We also hold archival material from the North East of Scotland, available for those researching family histories. Copies of local history material, eg photographs, may be ordered (there will be a charge for this service).
The Aberdeenshire Museums team operate three museums throughout the county, and also a Pop-up museums service in a Library near you!