The Gearrannan Blackhouses
 Main building with shop |
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| place | Gearrannan, Carloway Isle of Lewis , Scotland |
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open air museum
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| opening | 1989 |
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The Gearrannan Blackhouses is a small open-air museum with nine blackhouses in Carloway on the Isle of Lewis in a bay on the northwest coast across from the island's capital, Stornoway .
description
The museum consists of nine so-called blackhouses, which were the typical form of land tenants until after the Second World War . Nine such houses, which were gradually abandoned by their residents in the post-war period and fell into disrepair, have been preserved in situ . Until 1969 (other sources 1974), when the last residents moved out, they were the last group of inhabited blackhouses - not least because of their remote location. From 1989 the Urras nan Geàrrannan ( The Garenin Trust ) began to restore the houses. More than a decade later, the blackhouse village was opened by HRH Princess Anne.
Currently (2013) a blackhouse is used as a visitor center with a museum ticket office, shop and café. Another is set up as an apartment with the furnishings of the last residents, another contains a small event room and information boards on the history of the village, another contained a youth hostel , which was closed in 2011, and the rest has been developed as a holiday apartment.
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Coordinates: 58 ° 17 ′ 46 ″ N , 6 ° 47 ′ 31 ″ W.