THE ECOLOGY OF CAITHNESS

 

Here we unearth man's impact on our planet from cutting down trees, fishing and hunting, to building brochs and castles, roads, railways, harbours, and digging peat, cultivating the land to the introduction of atomic power.

 

Now, we look to the future and how we can preserve our environment for future generations to enjoy.

 

In the Flow Country wander through displays of birds, track bird migration routes, study maps highlighting blanket bogs worldwide and even handle specimens of bog oak and other samples preserved in our bogs.  Ask yourself - how deep are these bogs? The answer will impress.  And discover plants unique to this area.

 

Explore Coastal Caithness - its ecology, seabird habitats and see displays of seabirds.  Find out more about conserving the coastline from litter and marine pollution and be pointed in the direction of Dunnet Head Centre.

 

Meet Thurso's famous geologist and botanist Robert Dick (who established a fossil collection in his house in the 1840s - you pass by it on the approach to the museum) and study his life through artefacts, personal items as well as geological and fossil specimens.