Cateran Ecomuseum

During the Industrial Revolution, Blairgowrie & Rattray was a bustling centre of the textile industry, first spinning flax, then jute and latterly rayon. The town was already a centre of the [...]

The Cateran Ecomuseum is a museum without walls, all our sites are outside. We’ve taken this idea of ‘no boundaries’ as inspiration for our formal launch programme later this [...]

This small Four Poster stone circle, so called because of the prominent upright stones that feature in each corner of a rectangle, is beautifully set on the north-eastern shoulder of a low hill [...]

Bob Ellis is one of Eastern Perthshire’s most longstanding community leaders and one the founders of the Cateran Trail, we asked him a few questions about walking the Cateran Ecomuseum. [...]

The Cateran Trail , one of Scotland’s great long-distance footpaths, runs across much of the Cateran Ecomuseum area.   It incorporates many historical paths, trackways, and old [...]

Some of the earliest physical evidence of human activity in the area relates to death rather than life. During the Neolithic period, around 6,000 years ago, people gradually became less reliant [...]

The Cateran Ecomuseum is a new ‘museum without walls’ in Eastern Perthshire and Western Angus. Set in the beautiful and dramatic landscapes of the area, (recently rebranded as Cateran Country), [...]