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High-altitude drone view of Cultybraggan Camp showing dozens of red-roofed Nissen huts in a grid across the Perthshire landscape

Cultybraggan Camp · Comrie, Perthshire · Community-owned

A former
prisoner-of-war camp
interpreted on site.

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“Everything I owned will be sold and given to the people of Comrie because the Scots treated me as a human being.”
Heinrich Steinmeyer, former prisoner at Camp 21 · BBC interview
1941 Construction recorded
3,988 Prisoners. Recorded 25 December 1944
90 Nissen huts on site
2007 Community purchase
Black-and-white archival photograph of Elizabeth McCrorie, Una Finlay, Jean Allan, Maimie MacPherson, and Margaret McQueen with bicycles in Comrie

The camp

The camp and its people

The collection connects the surviving camp with the people who lived, worked and were held here. Photographs, drawings, objects and recorded accounts add individual evidence to the official record.

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The Comrie Museum building at Cultybraggan Camp

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Opening times, admission, and how to find us.

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Hand-drawn prisoner of war cartoon showing work assignments at Cultybraggan Camp

Stories

Artefacts, photographs, and documents from the camp's history — each one connected to a person.

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Children actively exploring wartime Morse code equipment inside a Nissen hut at Cultybraggan Camp — the kind of hands-on learning the museum supports

Education

Information for schools and organised groups considering a visit.

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The museum in pictures

Museum interior
MuseumMuseum interior
The museum building
MuseumThe museum building
Barrel vault hut
HeritageBarrel vault hut
Interpretation boards
StoriesInterpretation boards
Camp postcard, 1955
ArchiveCamp postcard, 1955
Maimie MacPherson
StoriesMaimie MacPherson