Kirbuster Farm Museum

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Kirbuster Farm Museum, Hundland Rd, Birsay, Orkney KW17 2LR
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Kirbuster Farm Museum is now closed for winter, it will re-open in March 2024. Kirbuster Museum has the last un-restored example of a traditional 'firehoose' in Northern Europe. The house has a central hearth, complete with peat fire, and a stone neuk bed reminiscent of the Neolithic interiors that can be seen at sites such as Skara Brae, Orkney. The site also has an Edwardian parlour and Victorian Gardens. An excellent place to visit if you are researching your Orkney ancestry.

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  • On-site services

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  • Wheelchair-accessible car park

  • Wheelchair-accessible toilet

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  • Toilets

  • Restaurant

Crowd

  • Family friendly

Children

  • Good for kids

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5
8 months ago

Absolutely brilliant museum and well laid out with knowledgeable guides. A hidden gem and well worth the short detour. Every element of this formerly working farm was expertly curated. With the peat fire, it's a real sensory experience.

5
9 months ago

An absolutely must place to visit. Go into the house which had a peat fire burning & was just as it had been back in 16th century & then onto the 19th century house which adjoins it.there are fascinating facts to read as you walk round. So interesting & great to take children as has 10 items to find in garden & a small putting green with putters & golf balls to borrow.

5
8 months ago

Good information about objects and farm tools from the past 300 years. Experiencing peatfire in the kitchen helped to make the setting take one back in time. Seeing the old wall covering that was discovered from the early 1900s and imagining a family living in the dwelling into the 1960s while hearing the ticking of a clock after smelling the peatfire and seeing how one would sleep in that kitchen vs a bed years later in the addition that was built in the 1720s was interesting.

5
9 months ago

One of the best farm museum I ever been to thank you Really feels as you stepping back in time with it's authenticity and from gift shop you able take some of it home with you with beautiful handmade straw ornaments Very well done to the owners

5
a year ago

Really fascinating experience, a real eye-opener and genuinely very different. This is not a sanitised version of the lives people led, but the real thing. Free entry, too.

5
10 months ago

Excellent representation of how people worked and lived hundreds of years ago

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