West HighlandMuseum

Victor Hodgson founded the West Highland Museum in 1922, gathering the first exhibits with no building to house them until the former British Linen Bank premises in Cameron Square were bought in 1926. The museum still occupies that listed building, run today as an independent charity funded almost entirely by donations and staffed largely by volunteers. Its Jacobite collection includes a portrait once uncatalogued until historian Bendor Grosvenor identified it as Bonnie Prince Charlie. Other holdings range from the Alexander Carmichael folklore collection to commando equipment from wartime training carried out nearby. The museum received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2021 and is midway through a 6.2 million pound redevelopment of its galleries. Admission is free, with shorter Sunday opening only in summer.