We all know the Scotland has some of Europe’s finest museums – from Dundee’s V&A to Glasgow’s Kelvingrove – but there are plenty of smaller, more esoteric, examples you may be less aware of.
Here are 12 of the odder – but always fascinating – museums Scotland has to offer.
9. Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank
It may not have the most snappy of names but Dumbarton's Denny Ship Model Tank, part of the Scottish Maritime Museum, offers a fascinating look at Victorian ship design. The centrepiece of the three floors of exhibits is the eponymous tank built by shipbuilder William Denny in 1882 that is the length of a football pitch and is still used to test ship designs today. Photo: Google Maps
10. Treasures of the Earth
The village of Corpach, near Fort William, is the unlikely setting for Treasures of the Earth - one of Europe’s finest private collections of crystals, gemstones and fossils. The collection is housed in an quirky simulated cave, while there's also an exhibition telling the story of Scotland's gold rush. Photo: Google Maps
11. Orkney Wireless Museum
Attractions don't come much more remote or analogue than the Orkney Wireless Museum, located in the island capital of Kirkwall. It collects together radios of all shapes and sizes, from a working century-old crystal set and wartime wirelesses, to modern transistor radios and Orkney's first jukebox. Photo: Google Maps
12. Inveraray Jail
One of the finest and best preserved jail and courtroom complexes in the world, Inveraray Jail dates back to 1820. Fully renovated as a visitor attraction in the 1980s, visitors can now feel what it would have been like to be tried and imprisoned in a 19th century jail, with the help of costumed characters you meet along the way. Photo: Google Maps