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Caen Highland Township - 1813
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the inhabitants of many small farming communities in the Scottish Highlands were forced to leave their homes. Under the guise of improvement, landlords drove out traditional subsistence farmers and…
Bennachie Colony - 1850
During the early nineteenth century crofters driven out from their original homes settled on common land at Bennachie in Aberdeenshire. They established a community which became known as the Bennachie colony. The inhabitants of the colony undertook…
Lair Longhouses, Glenshee - 800
This video was created in conjunction with Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust and the University of St Andrews, School of Computer Science, Open Virtual Worlds Research Team as a Student Project in the Summer of 2019. For more information on the project,…
Illicit Whisky Still - 1820
The Illicit Still Experience engages audiences in the area’s unique history in illegal whisky creation and smuggling. The area is now known for famous – and legitimate – distilleries as well as for it’s beautiful and rugged countryside. Using the…
Cottown Clay House
Buildings that were “made out of the ground upon which they stood” were once the most common vernacular structures in parts of Scotland.
Cottown Clay House - 1850
Earth houses have a long history in the British Isles. Today many people still admire the picturesque mudwall or ‘cob’ cottages of Devon and Somerset. However, earth was also a popular building material in parts of Scotland, with mudwall dwellings…
Forteviot Pictish Cemetery - 850
Forteviot was once a Royal Pictish Kingdom. It is where King Kenneth McAlpin united the gaels and picts. This is a reconsturction of a cemetery created by the picts. The Picts created their cemetery a short distance away from an older ceremonial…
Moredun Top Hillfort - 50
Hillforts feature regularly on the landscape of the Ochil and Sidlaw hills and a number have been excavated and studied in the past. Many of those studies were undertaken by Victorian archaeologists, who had no access to carbon dating, but the sites…
Perth - 1440
This reconstruction was created as part of the Tayside Landscape Partnership in collaboration with Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust.
It was part of a project to enable people to discover medieval Perth in the year 1440 through 360° virtual images…
Abernethy - 1072
In 1072 the small Scottish village of Abernethy was the site of a meeting between the King of Scots, Malcolm Canmore, and William of Normandy (who had recently conquered England). In a show of force William brought a fleet of ships up the River Tay,…
The French Fort at Eyemouth - 1557
The fort at Eyemouth changed the course of history, and not just that of Scotland, it played a significant role in the relationships between Scotland, England and France. Beginning life as an English fortification, it may have been the first Trace…
Edinburgh - A City in Crisis 1544
So what is important about 1544?
In the spring of 1544, the English king Henry VIII ordered a vast army of about fifteen thousand men north to Scotland.1 Acting on instructions from their monarch, the English forces captured and sacked Leith before…
St Andrews Harbour - 1921
A short clip depicting St Andrews Harbour in 1921. A collaborative project with the St Andrews Preservation Trust.
Today, the Scottish burgh of St Andrews is best known for its golf courses and ancient university. However, it also has a long…
Market Street
For over 800 years Market Street has been the commercial heart of the burgh of St Andrews. This reconstruction shows Market Street during the middle of the sixteenth century – a time when St Andrews was a significant trading centre and the religious…
St Andrews - Market Street c1565
For over 800 years, Market Street has been the commercial heart of the burgh of St Andrews. This reconstruction shows Market Street during the middle of the sixteenth century – a time when St Andrews was a significant trading centre and the religious…
Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church in St Andrews has played a major role in Scotland’s religious life since the Middle Ages. It was central to the events of the Scottish Reformation. Indeed, it was at Holy Trinity that the 16th century Protestant leader John Knox…
St Andrews Holy Trinity c1559
Holy Trinity Church was for many years the main place of worship for St Andrews' ordinary residents. It was built in the early fifteenth century, near the residential and trading centre of St Andrews. During the late Middle Ages Holy Trinity was…
St Salvator's College
St Salvator's Quad is one of the best known landmarks in St Andrews. For more than five centuries the tall tower of St Salvator's has dominated the local skyline. Yet much of the rest of the design of St Salvator's Quad has been completely…
St Andrews, St Salvator's College - 1559
St Salvator's Quad is one of the best known landmarks in St Andrews. For more than five centuries the tall tower of St Salvator's has dominated the local skyline. Yet much of the rest of the design of St Salvator's Quad has been completely…
St Andrews Castle
St Andrews Castle, Scotland, c1520
St Andrews Castle - 1520
St Andrews Castle, Scotland, c1520
St Andrews Cathedral Priory
St Andrews Cathedral was once the largest and most important church in Scotland. In the late fifteenth century the chronicler Walter Bower described St Andrews Cathedral as ‘the lady and mistress of the whole kingdom’. There has been a religious site…
St Andrews Cathedral Priory - 1318
In 2010, we collaborated on this project with the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews. Taking advice and guidance from the pre-eminent architectural historian of medieval Scotland, Professor Richard Fawcett, OBE FSA FRSE HonFSAScot…
North Isles Landscape Partnership
The NILPS has been specially created to support life in Orkney’s North Isles, while conserving and raising awareness of their distinctive identities, heritage and culture. To achieve this goal, the NILPS plans to deliver a range of innovative…
Region Varmland
Region Värmland has arranged and facilitated regional and international events to develop technological innovations, based upon virtual reality for example and other hybrid forms of storytelling. Our experience and expertise is an asset for the…
Sunne Kommun
Sunne is a cultural hub with its regional Västanå Teater, culture heritage foundation of Selma Lagerlöf, garden & sculpture park Rottneros and its experimental museum Alma Löv. Sunne is a wintersport resort for nordic and down hill skiing and in…
Nome Kommune
The municipality has been working with commercialisation of culture businesses & cultural heritage. The project manager is experienced, specifically on culture. Nome has a tradition for hosting events, smaller activities and small festivals, has…
County Mayo Municipality
County Mayo is a county in Ireland. In the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, now generally known as Mayo Abbey. Mayo County Council is the local authority. The population was 130,507 at the 2016…
Morse Municipality
Morsø municipality builds further on the cultural heritage as a fishing community, in particular the (native European flat) oyster and mussel fishery. The Danish Shellfish Center resides here with researchers from DLU. The shellfish industry has been…
Landkreis Wesermarsch
Wesermarsch with a tradition in cultural heritage (North Sea spirit as a typical coastal zone region) has a strong record of museums and local arts & crafts centers. Its traditional character is technical craftsmanship/construction knowledge,…