The course of British, European and world history was changed here at Culloden on 16 April 1746. It was here that the Jacobite army fought to reclaim the throne of Britain from the Hanoverians for a Stuart king. The British army was equally determined to stop this happening. The ferocious European war had come to Scotland - dividing families and setting clan against clan.

There are many different stories about Culloden. Visitors often have their own views on the battle, the events that led up to it and those that flowed from it. Now, 250 years on, Culloden is still a site that connects us intimately with our past. Below the surface, however, things are rarely as they first seem. For example, according to family history, the Great Pipes of Baleshare displayed at the opening of the exhibition were played at Culloden - but by a piper on the government, not the Jacobite side.