North East Scotland Attractions and Sightseeing
Use our North East Scotland sightseeing and attractions listings to help you make the most of your visit to North East Scotland, or browse by location using the
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Schoolhill, , Aberdeenshire AB10 1FQ
Aberdeen’s splendid Art Gallery houses an important fine art collection with particularly good examples of 19th, 20th and 21st century works, a rich and diverse applied art collection and an exciting programme of special exhibitions
Shiprow, , Aberdeenshire AB11
The City's award-winning Maritime Museum brings the history of the North Sea to life. View displays and exciting exhibitions on the offshore oil industry, shipbuilding, fishing and clipper ships then visit the shop and licensed café.
Aden Country Park, , Aberdeenshire AB42 5FQ
Award-winning portrayal of regional farming history over the past 200 years and Hareshowe working farm.
Aberlour,, , Aberdeenshire AB38 9JP
In depth tour includes special nosing and tasting of six of our best malts. Exclusive opportunity to hand-fill and purchase your own, personalised bottle of single cask strength selection
Abbey Street, , Angus DD11 1EG
Founded in 1178, Arbroath Abbey is associated with the Declaration of Arbroath when in 1320, Scotland's nobles swore their independence from England. New visitor centre gives full history.
St Peter Street, Peterhead, , Aberdeenshire AB42 1QD
Local history, maritime collection, with Inuit artefacts and Arctic animals, Arbuthnot coin collection and temporary exhibitions. Excellent display programme.
Blair Atholl, , Perth & Kinross
This unique and lively museum gives an atmosphere of vivid reality to country life and the social history of the Atholl people using detailed facts, historical photos and stories set in a wide range of imaginative displays.
Dufftown, Moray, , Moray
Auchindoun Castle is an L plan tower house of three storeys, built on the earthworks of an iron age hill fort. Auchindoun sits perched on a hilltop around two miles south of Dufftown, with commanding views over the surrounding hills.
Hay Street, Perth, , Perth & Kinross PH1 5HR
The origins of Balhousie Castle are said to date back to the 12th century. Originally an L-shaped tower house what we see today is the central part, possibly dating from the 17th century.
, Aberdeenshire AB37 9AX
Magnificent 16th century castle, rock garden, rose garden, audio visual, tearoom, shop, river walks.
Ballindalloch, , Moray AB37 9AX
Ballindalloch Castle is home to the Macpherson-Grant family and has been since 1546. It is one of very few historic family homes in Scotland to be continually inhabited by the same family for over four hundred and sixty years.
, Aberdeenshire AB35 5TB
Purchased by Queen Victoria in 1848, the Estate has been the Scottish Home of the British Royal Family ever since.
Dufftown, Moray, , Moray AB55 4DH
Balvenie served as a garrison for government forces during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and was finally abandoned after the battle of Culloden in 1746.
High Street, , Aberdeenshire AB45 1AE
Local history, including displays of archaeology, arms and armour, astronomy, Banff silver and award winning natural history display.
9 Brechin Roa, Kirriemuir, , Angus DD8 4BX
n this two-storeyed house J M Barrie (1860-1937), the creator of Peter Pan, was born. The adjacent house, No 11, contains an exhibition - The Genius of J M Barrie - about Barrie's literary and theatrical works. The outside wash-house is said to have been his first theatre, and also the inspiration for the Wendy House.
Invererne Road, Forres, , Aberdeenshire IV36 3EB
Speyside’s smallest distillery, over 100 years old, is part of the Malt Whisky Trail.
Perth Road, Pitlochry, , Perth & Kinross PH16 5LY
The information provided for tourists is well laid-out and stimulating and the shop seemed to be doing a brisk trade, where the vast majority of Blair Athol malt in the world is sold.
Ford Road, , Perth & Kinross PH18 5SH
There has been a mill on the site since at least the 1590's and it is one of the last eleven working watermills still operational in Scotland.
Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, , Perth & Kinross PH18 5TL
Set in extensive parklands, Blair Castle, traditional home of the Dukes of Atholl, offers a unique experience of Scotlands Past and Present.
Broughty Ferry, Dundee, , Angus
Broughty Castle has stood majectically at the mouth of the river Tay since 1496. It is built on the tip of a rocky promonotory projecting into the shallow waters of the Firth of Tay.
