Museum ofScottish Lighthouses

The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses stands beside Kinnaird Head Lighthouse in Fraserburgh, the first lighthouse built on the Scottish mainland, lit for the first time on 1 December 1787. The museum opened in 1995 within a purpose-built building attached to the old lighthouse keeper's quarters and tells the story of the Northern Lighthouse Board, the engineers who built Scotland's lights and the keepers who tended them. Exhibits cover optics, keepers' living conditions and the wider maritime history of the coast, with guided tours taking visitors up into the lighthouse tower itself for views along the Aberdeenshire coastline. Tours run at set times through the day, typically on the hour, and last around forty-five minutes. The site is looked after as a single heritage attraction rather than a network of branches, with Kinnaird Head Castle itself protected as a listed structure.