We are showing new exhibits in 2026 including a beautiful family bible from 1871, used by the Leslie Family in Insch, trophies of the SWRI and a wedding hat worn in 1913.
Last year we have managed to acquire the former ladies waiting room in the Railway Station and doubled our exhibition space!
The beautiful new space has been used as a kilt makers' atelier and a police office, and it lay empty for more than five years. Eventually in 2025, we have managed to gain the licence to use the room as an extension to the existing museum. Facing the platform it boasts the beautiful original fireplace, a wee kitchenette, a much needed additional store room.
We decided to make part of our past record-braking exhibition 'The Castle of Dunnydure' permanent (details below), and have transformed the ladies' waiting room into a beautiful exhibition space, and also an events space.
All this is only possible because of generous donations from the amazing people of Insch, our wonderful visitors from all over the world, and the Co-op grant we had received in 2024. Thank you all so much!
Since 2023 we have a very special subject for our exhibition, the castle of Dunnydure!
Our iconic hill of Dunnideer with the ruined castle right at the top is the trademark of Insch. But what did the castle look like in its heyday?
Dr Colin Harris has researched the castle for many years and has provided us with his findings.
We have won Clive Metcalfe, one of the best model builders, artist and founding member of Pink Floyd to build us a model of Dunnideer Castle as it looked like in the year 1500.
Admission free but donations appreciated
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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Every year since the Museum opened in 1998 we have put on a special exhibition featuring aspects of the village life of Insch and the North East of Scotland.
Each year's exhibition is compiled into an album and the albums can be viewed in the museum.
Our previous special exhibitions (1998 - 2022)
1998 'Merchants, tradesmen & shops of Insch
1999 ‘Insch at War’
2000 ‘Insch celebrates’
2001 ‘Agriculture’
2002 ‘Living in the Kitchen’ & ‘Queen's Golden Jubilee’
2003 ‘In Sickness and Health’
2004 ‘Railway 150’ & ‘The Post before 1854’
2005 ‘Sport in Insch’
2006 ‘The Changing Face of Insch’
2007 ‘Trades and Crafts of Insch’ and ‘Maintaining the Line'
2008 ‘Street names of Insch’
2009 ‘Insch connections abroad’
2010 ‘Stone to Steam’
2011 ‘Williamston – an Insch Connection’
2012 'Kirks and Manses'
2013 'Childhood - Then and Now'
2014 'The Great War - Life in Spite of it.
2015 'Wild About Insch - Countryside Connections '
2016 'Souters of Insch '
2017 'Our Bobbies - Policing the North East'
2018 'Recording Change -Twenty Years of the Insch Connection Museum'
2019 'Catching Fire - Firefighter Heroes in the North East'
2022 'Made in Insch'
2023-2025 'The Castle of Dunnydure'
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