MacDougall Collection

The Hope MacDougall Collection is a folk-life collection which is recognised as one of the most important in Scotland. Miss Hope MacDougall, daughter, sister and aunt to three successive chiefs of the Clan MacDougall started her collection with a single wooden spoon in the 1950s and amassed thousands of items before her death in 1998. Her passionate interest in people's ordinary working lives, particularly in a rural or coastal setting has ensured an extraordinary selection of icons of West Highland Life have been left for the benefit and education of the nation.