Museum nan Eilean, Francis Street
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Museum nan Eilean, Francis Street
Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 15 Jun 2012
Having now closed the museum is moving to the restored Lews Castle and due to open in April 2016. The category B listed building is an 1896 surviving part of former Free Church seminary school, latterly the Nicolson Institutes's Secondary School. It was converted to a museum in 1995, the school having survived here until the 1990s.
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Image Location
Latitude
58.20922
Longitude
-6.383014