• GLAMIS CASTLE
  Visit the Queen Mother’s childhood home; the birthplace of Princess Margaret and the legendary setting of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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• ANGUS FOLK MUSEUM (National Trust) at Glamis.
  A picturesque row of 17th century cottages which houses one of the finest folk collections in the country and you can also wander round the historic village of Glamis.
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• MEIGLE MUSEUM OF PICTISH STONES
  A remarkable collection of 25 sculptured monuments of the Celtic Christian period - one of the finest Dark Age sculpture collections in western Europe. To find out more about the Picts, visit Pictavia at Brechin Castle Garden Centre.In the churchyard at Meigle are the graves of Queen Guinevere and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Prime Minister 1905-1908).
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• DUNDEE
  Follow in Captain Scott’s footsteps at DISCOVERY POINT where there are inter-active exhibits, spectacular film shows and climb aboard Scott’s ship RRS Discovery.
  Also visit the VERDANT WORKS - an old jute mill restored to show what life was really like in those industrial days 100 years ago.
  See the new TAY ROAD & RAILWAY BRIDGES next to the remains of the original railway bridge lost in a storm in 1879 soon after it was built.
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• KIRRIEMUIR
  Visit the birthplace of J M Barrie, the creator of PETER PAN, which is in the hands of the National Trust for Scotland.
  One of Kirriemuir’s unusual attractions is the RAF Museum and it also boasts a Camera Obscura.
• DUNKELD
  Here is the mostly ruined and very romantic Gothic Cathedral which rises from shady lawns beside the River Tay. Dunkeld also boasts a graceful bridge built in 1809 by Thomas Telford. Nearby is an outdoor exhibition about Beatrix Potter as she visited the area many times in her childhood and based some of her characters on local people.

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