Aberdeen, nicknamed the Granite City, with its 196 670 inhabitants is the third most populous city in Scotland. Aberdeen is a major fishing port and is the European oil capital.
Then, what can you visit in Aberdeen?
The Maritime Museum: The maritime museum has collections of objects about shipbuilding, fast sailing ships, fishing and port history, with ship models and paintings. It includes also exhibitions about the North Sea oil and gas industry.
From the top of the Maritime Museum you can have a spectacular view of the harbour.
The entry for the Maritime museum is free.
The Tolbooth Museum: The museum presents exhibitions about local history and the development of crime and punishment. In the museum you can see the cells of the 18th century with the original doors and barred windows. You can also discover a guillotine which was used in Aberdeen in the 17th century.
The entry in the museum is free.
The Tolbooth Museum
The Provost Skene’s House : The Provost Skene’s House is a 17th century house. The house keeps period rooms, as the kitchen, the fireplaces and more, which enable to show how people lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. Then, in the Painted Gallery you can see series of religious painting, and discover the changing fashions in the Costume Gallery. To finish, you can learn about the local history, coins and archaeology on the top floor.
The Gordon Highlanders Museum tells the story of one of Scotland’s best known regiments between 1794 and 1994, the Gordon Highlanders. In the museum you can discover the period uniforms, medals, documents, maps, paintings and more.
The entry in the museum is £5 for students.
The Art Gallery: If you are interesting by modern art, sculptures and paintings, you can visit the Art Gallery which is free.
Duthie Park: The Duthie Park is a spacious park with open green spaces, different kinds of tree, flower beds and a river. The park includes also a closed space, the Winter Gardens which is an indoor garden in a glass house. The Winter Garden includes a Japanese Garden, a pink hill, many exotic plants and especially one of the largest collections of cacti in Great Britain.
You can visit the Duthie Park freely.
To finish, you can go for a walk in the Old Aberdeen which preserve the characteristics of the old town with old houses, buildings and medieval streets.
In Old Aberdeen you can visit St Machar’s Cathedral, King’s College Chapel or the Cruikshank Botanic Garden.
Cruikshank Botanic Garden
When a crazy week end is over (so every week end), just sit down, sauna and relax !
