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transport museums
Aberdeen Maritime Museum
Ever wondered just how a North Sea oil platform works, or how Britain's first clipper ship was built? Would you like to see intricate ship models and fine marine artworks? 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.