Posts for March, 2025

Neil MacGregor is a Gaelic scholar who has spent many years investigating the use of Strathspey Gaelic and has intimate knowledge of Abernethy. There will be a chance for questions and chat over tea and cake. Donations to Explore Abernethy.

Sandy McCook shows and talks about photos from his late father’s collection. Organised by Explore Abernethy. Donations welcome.

The organisers of Able2Adventure explain about how their adaptive bikes are allowing the less able to experience active outdoor activities. Organised by Explore Abernethy. Donations welcome.

Frank Bardgett talks about the History of Kincardine and Abernethy in the Jacobite Era, with information taken from the Kirk Session records. Event organised by Explore Abernethy. Donations welcome.

Talk hosted by The Grantown Society. Drinks may be taken through from the bar.

Join us this Mother’s Day for a tour about our animals and the roles mum’s play! With the opportunity to get crafty with enrichment and get insider knowledge on our animal collection.

11am meeting point at our polar bear statue in the main car park. Tickets include entry to the park for the rest of the day.

For further information please contact [email protected].

Saturday, March 29th, SkyHide, Tomintoul
Partial solar eclipse, 10:00am-12:30pm
Cairngorms Astronomy Group – Public Solar Eclipse Observing Event

Join us at the Tomintoul SkyHide for a public solar eclipse observing event! Drop by and safely view a partial solar eclipse with the Cairngorms Astronomy Group (CAG).

🔭 Date & Time: Saturday, March 29th, 10:00am
📍 Location: Tomintoul SkyHide at the Field of Hope
🕶 Safe solar viewing equipment provided

The 5th Braemar Mountain Festival returns from the Thursday 5th March – Sunday 9th March 2025.
4 days and over 40 events to choose from!
The festival kicks off with a torchlight procession following the Braemar pipe band to the iconic Games Centre Pavilion for a night of food, drink and music.
From Friday our programme of guided walks, ski, winter skills, mountain bike, wild swimming and trail running sessions commence across the weekend.
Accompanying the activity sessions are a range of workshops which include navigation, photography, star gazing and first aid.
Across the weekend we have a line up of amazing speakers covering a wide range of subjects. Look out for the book signings at some of the talks. Special mention goes to our headline mountaineering speakers – Anna Wells and Adri Brownlee. Adri is a 23year old woman who has climbed all fourteen 8000m peaks in the Himalayas. Only the second Brit to achieve this and the youngest female! Anna is an inspirational mountaineer who completed a winter round of the Munro’s last year.
Not forgetting our Saturday night ceilidh with live music from the Blaeberries and our Best of Kendal film night which wraps up the Festival on the Sunday evening.

This NOSAS seminar brings together speakers from across Scotland who will contribute to an understanding of the ways that the roof was supported in pre-improvement vernacular buildings in Scotland. Cruck-framed construction has been a traditional method of supporting the roof across Scotland. But there were areas of Scotland where there is no or little archaeological evidence of cruck-frames. What preceded crucks? And why were they superceded in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

In the afternoon we will be guided round the constructed pre-improvement buildings at the Folk Museum by Bob Powell, who was a previous Principal Museums Officer at the museum.

Three years in the making, Riverwoods is a feature-length documentary that shines a light on the perilous state of Scotland’s salmon and tells the compelling story of an inextricable relationship between fish and forest.

Open to all.