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 prisoner of
war camp.
Still standing.

Visit History

70 Category A-listed
Nissen huts

“Everything I owned will be sold and given to the people of Comrie because the Scots treated me as a human being.”

1939

Originally built

4,500+

POWs held at peak

1946

Camp decommissioned

Years of history

Visitors to date

Category A-listed huts

Community-owned acres

Jim Thomson at work with a handbuilt lathe inside one of the Nissen huts at Cultybraggan Camp, representing the community life the site now sustains

The camp

The camp and its people.

Behind every date, a person. Comrie schoolgirls who took a homesick prisoner to the cinema. A German prisoner who drew 66 cartoons between the huts. Heinrich Steinmeyer, who left everything he owned to the village that treated him as a human being.

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The Comrie Museum building at Cultybraggan Camp

Visit

Opening times, admission, and how to find us.

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Interpretation storyboards outside the museum 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

Guided visits for primary and secondary schools, aligned to CfE.

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The museum in pictures

MuseumMuseum interior

MuseumThe museum building

HeritageBarrel vault hut

StoriesInterpretation boards

ArchiveCamp postcard, 1955