Countryside and grounds
Explore the beautiful Lanarkshire countryside.
Get your walking boots on and take a stroll up to our working farm from the museum. Look across the fields and see if you can spot any of our farm animals! You can also hop on the Farm Explorer and take in the scenery in style.
The play park and picnic area is great for a packed lunch pit stop!
Explore the countryside
A short walk from the museum is our working farm. The walk takes about ten minutes on paths overlooking fields and hedgerows.
Take in the beautiful scenery and meet some of our farm animals in the fields along the way.
Farm Explorer
Tractor times: Departure every half hour
Take a ride on our Farm Explorer tractor-trailer and travel to our working farm in style. Enjoy the sights out the trailer window as you make your way up the bumpy farm track. Tickets are available at the museum ticket desk on a first-come first-served basis. There is limited ticket availability each day.
The last tractor to the farm departs at 16:00.
Play park and picnic area
Location: Outside museum building
Our ever-popular play park has a musical arbour, basket swing and magnifying posts to help you get closer to nature.
With picnic tables and plenty of wide-open space, our play and picnic area is the perfect place to take a break during your visit.
Visiting with dogs
Assistance dogs are welcome in the museum buildings and on the outdoor site.
Non-assistance dogs are welcome outdoors, but must be on a lead. They are not allowed in the museum buildings, Tractor Explorer, or picnic area.
Please read the Outdoor Access Code for dog walking before your visit.
Highlights
Accessibility and facilities
Getting around the countryside
Outdoor paths
The distance between the museum building and farm steading is approximately half a mile.
Outdoor paths to the farm have firm, rough gravel surfaces with moderate slopes in some areas, suitable for pushchairs and electric assisted wheelchairs.
Footwear
We recommend footwear and clothing appropriate for outdoors and inclement weather when exporing the countryside.
Farm Explorer
There is a lift for wheelchairs and mobility scooters to board the tractor-trailer. There is one designated space at the rear of the trailer where wheelchairs and mobility scooters can be secured.
Play park and picnic area
Seating
There are picnic tables in the picnic area. These tables are suitable for wheelchairs and mobility scooters.
Dogs
Please note that dogs are not allowed in the play park and picnic area.
Facilities
There are toilets and baby changing facilities in the museum and at the working farm.
The nearest toilets to the playpark are those on the ground floor of the museum building. Check the museum map or ask a member of the Visitor Experience team for directions to the toilets.