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If so then the Aberdeen Maritime Museum is for
you. Situated overlooking the city's vibrant harbour the museum
presents the intriguing history of Aberdeen's shipping and
fishing past together with the story of the ultr-modern offshore
oil industry.
The exhibitions feature user-friendly computers
that bring experience and work of our maritime past to life.
Grampian Transport Museum
A treasure house of transport history with lots to see and
do. Dramatic displays, push button exhibits and video presentations
trace the history of road travel in the locality. Exhibitions
and vehicles are changed regularly: there are always new things
to see. Climb aboard vehicle exhibits include: buses, trams,
traction engine, fire engine and Mack Snow Plough. Ours is
a living museum with numerous events taking place throughout
the open season.
Moray Motor Museum
Not far away in Elgin is the Moray Motor Museum, which is
in converted mill buildings at Bridge Street. It features
a superb variety of veteran, vintage and classic cars and
motorcycles plus memorabilia from years past. It also features
an old water mill, dating back to 1230, which has been fully
restored and is now in full working order.
Maud Railway Museum
Near Aberdeen - a fantastic exhibition of Railway memorabilia
related to the days of Steam travel in the Scotland's North
East. The former administration office on the "Peterhead
Platform" of Maud's former station. Exhibits include
a model recalling Maud Junction in its heyday; when thousands
of head of cattle and sheep were transported by rail to and
from the livestock markets at Maud three days per week; when
passenger trains ran regular services to all stops on the
Buchan Line; when fully-laden fish trains ran daily from Peterhead
and Fraserburgh during the busy herring season; and when mixed-freight
trains hauled coal, livestock feed and the other necessities
of life to all points north of Dyce and delivered the engineering,
food, and farm produce of Buchan southwards. Photographs and
displays of railway memorabilia of all sorts from the Great
North of Scotland Railway (1861-1922), from LNER days (1923-1947),
and latterly British Rail (1948-1979). A great insight into
our Railway Heritage. The museum "shop" sells books,
souvenirs and collectables.
Ballater Station Visitor's Centre
Restored Victorian Railway Station housing displays of the
100 year old history of Royal use. Unique Royal waiting room
built for Queen Victoria. The building also houses the Deeside
Orientation Centre and a Restaurant.
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