New Season, New Exhibition

New Season, New Exhibition

The 2023 season opens on Easter Sunday, 9th April with an exciting new exhibition featuring a stunning range of photos from the Cromarty Image Library. In 2003, local web development company, Plexus Media established a digital collection of photographs to show how the...
Cromarty Courthouse Goes Digital

Cromarty Courthouse Goes Digital

Cromarty Courthouse Museum is delighted to be one of six Highland museums that are preparing to put their collections on the world stage after being chosen to participate in a unique collaboration between XpoNorth Digital, Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s specialist...
Your Courthouse needs YOU!

Your Courthouse needs YOU!

Good-day to you Sir Thomas Urquhart here… It has come to my attention that some former staff have absconded! The Sheriff has been informed, but awaiting their apprehension, there is forthwith an urgent need for additional seasonal paid staff (yes, payment indeed for...
James Braidwood, father of the modern fire service

James Braidwood, father of the modern fire service

Victoria Hall Tuesday 17 January 2023, 7:30pm Speaker: Diana Hamilton-Jones James Braidwood (1800-1861) was born in Edinburgh and grew to be a serious young man, diligent, thoughtful, brave, patiently persistent, kind, a devout Christian, a great family man and a fair...
Slaves and Highlanders – Saltire Book of the Year

Slaves and Highlanders – Saltire Book of the Year

Congratulations to Cromarty resident and historian David Alston for his success in winning the Saltire Society History Book of the Year 2022 and then going on to claim the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year for “Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of...