Rachel Buckley
Untangling the knot: rediscovery of a Bronze Age hoard at Rosemarkie
Thursday 25 September 2025, 7.30pm, online
News from Groam House
Great Big Book Sale
10.30am – 3pm , 6 September 2025
Masonic Hall, Fortrose.
Summer 2025 100 Club winners.
The Winners’ List
FAMILY DAY: Pictish and Celtic Patterns: Explore, Imagine, Create!
31 August 2025, 12 noon – 4 pm.
Annual Academic Lecture: Fiona Campbell-Howes
Watch online
Rosemarkie and Ross in the time of Curetán: Bishops, abbots and churches in the early medieval Moray Firthlands.
Wanted: Development & Marketing Board Member
Groam House Museum is looking for skilled craft practitioners to lead workshops as part of our “Community Connections through Collections” project. Traditional and endangered crafts are particularly welcome.
Wanted: Storytelling Session Facilitators
Groam House Museum is looking for skilled craft practitioners to lead workshops as part of our “Community Connections through Collections” project. Traditional and endangered crafts are particularly welcome.
Wanted: Traditional Craft Workshop Leader
Groam House Museum is looking for skilled craft practitioners to lead workshops as part of our “Community Connections through Collections” project. Traditional and endangered crafts are particularly welcome.
Summer Craft Fair
10am – 3pm
7 June 2025
Fortrose Free Church
100 Club Winners Announced!
Our 100 Club is a fun way to support Groam House Museum and have a chance to win cash prizes!
Introducing “At Home with the Picts: A Crafted Legacy” – Groam House Museum’s Podcast!
The first episode launches on Saturday 5th April at 10 AM BSTwith new episodes released weekly. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube. Join us as we explore...
Opening Weekend – Join Us!
Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th April 2025
Exclusive Opening Evening for Members & Volunteers
Friday 4th April, 17:00-19:30
AGM – 19 December 2024, 19:30
Notice of AGM - 19 December 2024, 19:30 The Annual General Meeting of Groam House Museum will be held on Thursday 19 December, at 7.30pmIt will be held over Zoom. We would love...
Celebrate Our New Store: Open Doors Days
Join us for a special celebration as we open the doors to our brand-new store at 19 High Street, Rosemarkie! Thanks to the incredible efforts of our volunteers and project...
Christmas Concert – Something Magical with The Peoples Show Choir – Black Isle
The Peoples Show Choir will be at Fortrose Community Theatre for an amazing Christmas Concert - Something Magical of new and well-known music. The great news is that you have a...
Podcast Brief: At Home with the Picts
Groam House Museum is seeking an experienced freelance podcast producer or small studio to create a short series of podcasts that engages a younger audience with the fascinating...
Hidden Stories: A Creative Workshop
16th November at 14:00.
An inspiring storytelling and creativity workshop at Groam House Museum
Stories Elizabeth Told
9th November at 14:30.
A Storytelling Session in tribute to the founder of Groam House Museum Betty Marshal/Elizabeth Sutherland.
Groam House Museum AGM 2023
Wednesday 13 December 2023 at 7.30pm.
EVENT
Tim Edey Christmas Celtic Tour 2023 with Kentra supporting
Saturday, December 16, 2023
ONLINE LECTURE
Scotland and Scandinavia
c.AD750–1300: Material and Social Entanglements.
Dr Russell Ó Ríagáin
POSTPONED
ONLINE LECTURE
ANNUAL ACADEMIC LECTURE
From Pictish Kingdom to Scottish Earldom: a cultural geography of Atholl and Gowrie.
Dr Mark A Hall
Watch online
Gardners Question Time
Thursday 19 October
Munro’s Nurseries
ONLINE LECTURE
Textiles of the Galloway Hoard – a Viking Age treasure. Dr Susanna Harris, University of Glasgow
Thursday 21st Sept, 7.30pm
Celebration of Glenurquhart & Abriachan, and Their Impact on the World
If you happen to be near Drumnadrochit on September 20th, please pop into Blairbeg Hall (Glenurquhart Public Hall) to visit the Groam House stand at the Celebration of...
100 Club Quarterly Draw – Summer 2023
Groam House Museum 100 Club Quarterly Draw – Summer 2023 The Winners’ List: (Draw held 28 August 2023) Number in Draw / Winners / Membership No. / Win 62 / J Gibson Weir /...
EVENT: Doors Open Days
2nd & 3rd September 2023
1.30pm & 3.00pm
Free
EVENT: Pict in the House
9 October 2023, 1- 4pm
Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie
Free
TRACING THE CELTIC KNOT
Our 2023 exhibition takes visitors on a journey through Celtic art from the Rosemarkie Pictish stones to the work of Celtic artists and craftspeople today. Join us to explore the creativity of Celtic art and its role in Scottish identity through artefacts from our Nationally Significant George Bain Collection and interactive activities.
2023 Lecture Series
Mark your calendars, the 2023 lecture series has more lectures coming this autum.
NEW: Museum of the Highlands
A new website offering exciting ways to delve into the rich history of the Scottish Highlands.
Meet a Pict Day
1-4pm
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 July 2023
ONLINE LECTURE
The Tarradale Barrow
Cemetery with Dr Eric Grant
Watch the recording
ONLINE LECTURE
A Tale of Two Synods: Adomnan of Iona and Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan with Alex Woolf
Watch the recording of the lecture..
Annual General Meeting 2022
The Annual General Meeting is an opportunity for members to catch up on GHM’s activities over the past year and to have a say in how the museum is managed.
Gardeners’ Question Time
6 October, Munro’s Nurseries
Groam House Museum 100 Club Spring Winners
Congratulations to the following folk who won in Groam House Museum 100 Club Quarterly Sprint 2022. The Winners’ List: (Draw held 10 May 2022)
WATCH | Reconstructing medieval lifeways from bioarchaeology
with Dr Shirley Curtis-Summers
SPRING CRAFT FAIR
FUNDRAISING EVENT
FORTROSE FREE CHURCH
SATURDAY 21 MAY 2022
10.00 – 15.00
100 Club Winter Winners
Congratulations to our Winter Winners in the Groam House 100 Club! Winners in this draw are: Andrew Wood (£50), Alastair Morton (£20), Joshua Russ (£10) and Eric Allan (£10) We...
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2021
Thursday 9 December 2021 at 7.30pm
ONLINE EVENT | STORIES OF THE BRAHAN SEER
with storyteller Lizzie McDougall
18 November 2021, 19:30
ONLINE LECTURE | DR VICTORIA THOMPSON WHITWORTH
Could the Book of Kells have been made at Portmahomack?
Watch the recorded lecture.
ONLINE CELTIC KNIT-A-LONG, SERIES TWO
The second series of the Celtic Knit-a-Long sessions start with the first session on Wednesday, 13 October.
THE INTRIGUING TALE OF THE ‘HUNTING’ CARPET
At the end of August we were thrilled to meet Anne Henderson who was on holiday from Strathaven and had a special reason to be visiting us at Groam House.
ONLINE LECTURE | Reactions to the Burning of Bishop Adam of Caithness in 1222
with Tom Fairfax
Watch the recorded lecture.
Groam House Book Sale & Coffee morning
Saturday 21 August, 10am – 1pm.
Free Church, Church Street, Fortrose
Groam House Cookbook OUT NOW
Buy online or at the museum.
Join a new online community sharing the creativity of Celtic art
A call to all artists, designers and makers inspired by the Celtic style
BOOK – ONLINE LECTURE | Weaving Spirals – the Origin of Key Pattern
Designer Lucy Hague will discuss the design challenges encountered when translating Pictish-style key patterns into cable-knitting.
ONLINE EXHIBITION | HIGHLAND THREADS
Groam House Museum is one of fourteen museums from across the Highlands taking part in Highland Threads. A virtual exhibition showcasing a costume from each museum’s collection.
GEORGE BAIN CELTIC ART DIGITISATION PROJECT NEWS
Welcome to the second George Bain Celtic Art Digitisation Project newsletter!
TRAINING: MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHY
Would you like to learn how to photograph museum objects? We’re offering volunteers the chance to find out more. Join museum photographer Jim Dunn online to learn how to...
ROSEMARKIE GOSPEL PARCHMENT PRINTS
‘You urge me to make a new work from the old’, was Jerome’s complaint in the year 376 to the request from Pope Damascus for him to create the Vulgate version of the Gospels which...
Annual General Meeting 2020
Annual General Meeting, 3 December at 7.30, via Zoom. Everyone welcome! Just contact doug.maclean@groamhouse.org if you plan to attend, and he will send you the link for the...
EXCLUSIVE: TAPESTRY BY ANNA MACNEIL
Groam House gift shop is delighted to announce a new creative collaboration with Anna MacNeil offering for sale these wonderful bespoke wall panel tapestries inspired by our very...
Christmas shopping at groam
Our museum shop will open Saturdays throughout November! We have a fantastic selection of handmade and unique gifts, including an assortment of items lovingly made on the...
Wanted: Interpretive content developer
Opportunity: Interpretive content developer Groam House Museum has been awarded a grant from the NLHF’s Heritage Emergency Fund. The grant is to enable us to re-use existing...
LISTEN | BAIN DESIGN PODCAST
Imagine having this bright, intricate Celtic-design bowl in your house: you would make it a centrepiece, wouldn’t you? If you had visited Celtic artist and educator George Bain’s...
George Bain Celtic Art Digitisation Project News
Our first George Bain Celtic Art Digitisation Project newsletter is out now! In this edition we report on our progress so far; share the findings of our #CelticCreativity...
ONLINE EXHIBITION | ONE MAN’S WAR
EXHIBITION AN ONLINE EXCLUSIVEONE MAN’S WAR George Bain in the Balkans 1917-1918The work of the artist George Bain (1881-1968)gives us a personal view of life on the Balkan...
Open Gardens 2021 – Join Our Trail
We are pleased to announce we are already planning Open Gardens 2021. We aim to make the 2021 event bigger and more diverse than ever before. We’re looking for all styles of...
Unravelling the Celtic Knot: The Performance
Thursday evening saw the walls of Fortrose Cathedral light up with Celtic art by George Bain and locally-designed animations. These were accompanied by music and dance...
‘WORD ON THE STREET’ Big Book Sale and Coffee Morning
Hundreds of pre-owned books will be on sale at the Big Book Sale being held in the Legion Hall, Dingwall on Saturday morning,...
Honeymoon Highlight is a Visit to Rosemarkie Museum
Anneliese from Santiago, Chile, just had to visit Groam House Museum whilst in Scotland, even though she was here on her honeymoon.
The Black Isle Craft Day
On Saturday 15th June the Gordon Memorial Hall, Rosemarkie was brimming with arts and crafts produced by the talented people from the Black Isle and surrounding...
Fortrose Plant and Seedling Sale and Coffee Morning
Fortrose Plant and Seedling Sale and Coffee Morning A Plant and Seedling Sale and Coffee Morning is being held in the Seaforth Lodge, Station Square, Fortrose, on Saturday,...
Fabulous posters by Fortrose Academy students
New display at Groam House MuseumFabulous posters by Fortrose Academy 1st year students Groam House Museum is opening its 2019 season with a vibrant display of posters...
Found in the ground
Over the last decade metal-detecting, archaeological field-walking and excavations have recovered all sorts of information from in and under the soil across this part of the Black Isle. The display looks at the surprising range of artefacts that have been found.