Whether you’re visiting in person or exploring from home, this page gives you a quick overview of how the tour works and lets you browse or filter the displays to create your own personalized experience. If you’re at the museum, this digital guide will help you find and understand each display better. If you’re browsing from home, enjoy learning more about the history, people, and artifacts of the 48th Highlanders at your own pace.
If you are visiting the museum in person, plan to spend about five minutes per display.
Click/press ℹ️ for navigation help.
Displays are listed below in the order to minimize having to move about the museum searching for displays.
Want to focus on topics that interest you most? Use the filter options below to create a personalized tour experience:
If you select multiple filters, the selected list of displays will include those that include any of your filters – not all of them.
As you explore, the ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ buttons will guide you through only those displays that match your chosen filters.
You are viewing 7 displays — about 35 minutes of exploring!
Use navigation buttons at the top or bottom of each ‘display’ page to navigate between displays. Only those displays that meet your filter criteria will be shown. The ‘Display list’ button takes you back to the display listing.
The artifacts listed on each ‘display’ page are all in the current display. You can click on any of these to learn more. We have flagged those you should find more informative.
Many artifact screens have links to related artifacts and and/or related Highlanders. We invite you to to explore these links if you have the time. When you have finished exploring as many artifacts and Highlanders as you want, click the “Back to Display” button (upper left corner of each screen) to return to the original display page.
When you click a link on a display page you may be taken to a page on the Museum site that does not have a ‘Back’ button. Just click the “Back” button on the toolbar at the top of the screen. In other cases, the link may point to a different web site. In that case. to return to the display page, simply switch back to this app.