Highland Village Celebrates Museum Weekend

Unique customs and rural living will be the focus of an interactive Highland Village Museum showcase of the Highland Gaels.

The Highland Village Museum/An Clachan Gàidhealach in Iona welcomes all to celebrate Nova Scotia's 11th annual Museum Weekend with special Highland Gaels demonstrations.

On Saturday, June 9, Highland Village will observe Là Fhéill Calum Cille or St. Columba Day. Calum Cille, or St. Columba is one of Gaelic Scotland's and Ireland's most revered saints. This Celtic feast day will be marked with Gaelic foods served by costumed animators in historic buildings. Rare video footage of Gaelic speaking tradition bearers, including Joe Neil MacNeil, author of Tales Until Dawn, will be shown at 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 10, at 2 p.m. visitors can view Am Pòsadh Hiortach, a documentary about the history of Scotland's most westerly Hebridean Island, St. Kilda. Visitors are invited to attend spinning and weaving demonstrations and learn traditional Gaelic songs of Cape Breton.

Both days will conclude with horse-and-wagon tours of the site for children.

Museum Weekend activities at Highland Village will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Highland Village is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information on this event or other Highland Village programs, call 902-725-2272.

Highland Village Museum/An Clachan Gàidhealach is located in Iona, Victoria Co., over looking the spectacular Bras d'Or Lakes. It is a part of the Nova Scotia Museum family. Museum Weekend is a provincewide celebration encouraging Nova Scotians to visit their museums.