Topics and themes
History
The Wars of Independence
The Battle of Bannockburn
Tower houses
Alloa Tower
Castle Fraser
Craigievar Castle
Crathes Castle
Drum Castle
Fyvie Castle
Mary, Queen of Scots/The Stuarts/Scotland in the 1500s
Alloa Tower
Falkland Palace
Merchants/Burghs/Scotland in the 1600s
Royal Burgh of Culross
The Jacobites
Alloa Tower (1715)
Culloden (1745/6)
Glencoe (1692)
Glenfinnan Monument (1745)
Killiecrankie (1689)
Kintail (Battle of Glen Shiel 1719)
The Georgians
Culzean Castle & Country Park
The Georgian House
House of Dun
Newhailes House & Garden
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
The Victorians
J M Barrie’s Birthplace
Brodick Castle, Garden & Country Park
Brodie Castle
Culzean Castle & Country Park
Haddo House
Holmwood
Pollok House
Robert Smail’s Printing Works
Thomas Carlyle’s Birthplace
Weaver’s Cottage
Early 20th century
Broughton House
The Hill House
Hill of Tarvit Mansion
Moirlanich Longhouse
Pollok House
The Tenement House
World War II
National Museum of Rural Life (managed by National Museums Scotland)
Culzean Castle & Country Park
Haddo House
Famous Scots
J M Barrie’s Birthplace
Broughton House (home of painter Edward Atkinson Hornel)
Thomas Carlyle’s Birthplace
Falkland Palace (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Hugh Miller’s Birthplace
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
Expressive arts
Architecture
Alloa Tower (tower house)
Castle Fraser (tower house)
Craigievar Castle (tower house)
Crathes Castle (tower house)
Culzean Castle & Country Park (Robert Adam)
Drum Castle (tower house)
Fyvie Castle (tower house)
Haddo House (William Adam)
The Hill House (Charles Rennie Mackintosh)
Hill of Tarvit Mansion(Robert Lorimer)
Holmwood (Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson)
Newhailes House (Enlightenment)
The Tenement House (tenement living)
Art and design
Broughton House (Glasgow Boys; Hornel)
Fyvie Castle (extensive portrait collection)
The Hill House (Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh; Charles Rennie Mackintosh)
House of Dun (extensive collections)
Pollok House (extensive Spanish and Scottish collections)
Languages
Bachelors' Club (Scots)
Culloden (Gaelic)
Glenfinnan Monument (Gaelic)
J M Barrie’s Birthplace (English)
Moirlanich Longhouse (Gaelic songs and storytelling)
Robert Burns Birthplace Museum (Scots)
Science – Planet Earth – Biodiversity & Interdependence
(these visits are led by Trust rangers)
Conservation
Balmacara Estate
Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve
Ben Lomond
Brodick Country Park
Castle Fraser
Crathes Castle Estate
Culzean Country Park
Drum Castle Estate
Glencoe National Nature Reserve
Haddo Country Park
Killiecrankie
Kintail
Leith Hall Estate
Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve
Mull and Iona
Newhailes Estate
Rockcliffe
St Abb’s Head National Nature Reserve
Threave Estate
Food chains/minibeasts
Brodick Country Park
Castle Fraser
Crathes Castle Estate
Culzean Country Park
Drum Castle Estate
Greenbank Garden
Haddo Country Park
Leith Hall Estate
Mull and Iona
Newhailes Estate
Threave Estate (including bats)
Mountains
Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve
Ben Lomond
Glencoe National Nature Reserve
Goatfell (Brodick Country Park)
Kintail
Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve
Seashore
Brodick Country Park
Culzean Country Park
Mull and Iona
Rockcliffe
St Abb’s Head National Nature Reserve
Gardens (teacher-led visits encouraged but Trust staff can be available)
Brodick Castle Garden
Crarae Garden
Culzean Castle Garden
Falkland Palace Garden
Greenbank Garden
Harmony Garden
Inverewe
Inveresk Lodge Garden
Priorwood Garden
Threave Garden
Geology and earth materials
Brodick Country Park
Culzean Country Park
Hugh Miller’s Birthplace
Technology
Farming
National Museum of Rural Life (managed by National Museums Scotland)
Pitmedden Garden (Museum of Farming Life)
Technological developments in society
Barry Mill
Preston Mill
Robert Smail’s Printing Works
Weaver’s Cottage