20 June 2026

Guided Walk - Achtercairn

Organised by Gairloch Museum. Free, but donations greatly appreciated. Further details and bookings from Gairloch museum website 

This Guided Walk will take us past ten stone circles (remains of Atlantic Roundhouses) and many other features including wildlife and wonderful scenery. The walk is roughly two miles long, lasting around two hours on rough paths.  

Please meet your guide, Jeremy Fenton at the Museum Welcome Desk in good time for the walk to start at 1.30pm (we suggest by 1.20pm). 

20 June 2026

Film Screening: Herring Stories of the Minch

Organised by Gairloch Museum. Donations appreciated. Further information and bookings from Ticketsource.

Herring have played a part in shaping the communities and culture around the Minch, nourishing people and the sea with their fatty richness in a history that goes back to Viking times and beyond. Yet, as is the case for wild fish species in oceans and seas around the world, the contemporary story of herring is one of decline; in the Minch, a fish that was once abundant disappeared altogether in the 1970s, with the finger pointing firmly to overfishing. Now, two generations later, there are signs that herring may be returning to the Minch. 

Herring Stories of the Minch is a film co-created with coastal communities to tell the stories of herring: of the cultures that evolved around fishing and eating herring and of the generosity of a fish that has fed many generations of people and marine animals. Poignantly, the film asks what was lost when herring disappeared from the Minch and what the potential return of herring might mean for local culture, human livelihoods, marine wildlife and biodiversity.