Beatrix Potter Museum

On a rainy day on our Perthshire holiday we decided to head to the Beatrix Potter Exhibition & Garden in Birnam for some indoor fun with our 1 year old. I have to be honest I wasn’t expecting much, but I was proved wrong. This is a really lovely place that I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to visitors with little ones.
The exhibition is housed in Birnam’s Arts & Conference Centre. Outside is a lovely garden with sculptures of the animals that Beatrix made famous through her books.
Inside is a lovely gift shop with Beatrix Potter themed goods, and a great range of non-​Potter related cards, books, gifts, toys, and trinkets…
Downstairs is the exhibition area. This is relatively small compared to other exhibitions/​museums, but it’s appeal for us was the great range of play activities for the little ones. From drawing and colouring on blackboards and at old school desks, to playing shop, playing with puzzles, dressing up, and reading books — this was a great way to spend an afternoon with our little one.
I feel this is really geared towards younger kids under 8, but was just perfect for our inquisitive 1 year old.
Upstairs is the Foyer Café, where we enjoyed some lovely coffees.
The staff here were really lovely too!

If you have kids and are in the area then this is a must! Yhere is also a workshop for the little ones within the museum. Equally worth seeing for all those who never stopped being children. Very charming place.

A lovely place to go adult and child alike! Personally, I love Peter Rabbit, Miss Tiggywinkle etc and this museum is a real tribute to ‘Miss Potter’, There is a large ish shop selling lovely books and other memorabilia. The ‘museum’ itself is quite small, yet informative and very hands on for the kids. There are also clothes for the kids to dress up in.
Beatrix Potter took holidays in Dalguise in Perthshire (now a PGL centre) before her family changed their holiday destination to the Lakes.