Arnol Blackhouse / Isle of Lewis ***

Region: Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)

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Description:

One of Scotland’s most evocative historic buildings, the Arnol Blackhouse is not so much a museum as a perfectly preserved fragment of a lost world. This museum takes you back to simpler times when life in a long, narrow, often damp earthen house with a thatched roof and peat-burning fire pit (with no chimney) was the norm in the Outer Hebrides. The blackhouse at No. 42 in the small village of Arnol has been wonderfully preserved to give visitors a sense of rural life over the last century, with many of the furnishings left just as they were when the last residents