Events

Experience the Iron Age!

We hope that you will join us for days filled with storytelling, music, crafts and history. Each event is unique and celebrates a particular aspect of life 2500 years ago and today! All our daytime events are the same as a normal ticket, but we have so much on offer!

Any questions or queries, please email info@crannog.co.uk

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2024 Events

Traditional midwinter was a time for feasting, for sharing the relative plenty after a year spent growing and harvesting.
The oldest traditions are of fun and mischief, visiting neighbours to sing, have poetry battles and drink.
Midwinter is a solar festival, celebrating the passing of the longest night and the return of the sun.
We will have mischief, mask making, daily crafts and puppet pantos as well as warming food and drinks.
Festivities will be led throughout Midwinter by a Lord Misrule. Let the mask guide you!

Holiday Opening Days: 14th – 23rd & 27th -30th December

The café will be open serving hot food and drink throughout the day.
We also have a small, locally stocked gift shop perfect for last minute Christmas presents!

2025 Events

Celebrate the coming of Spring with a Celtic Festival of Light.

Enjoy candle making, snowdrop crafts and Spring stories

All are welcome, pets too!

Welcome in the brighter days to come! Join us in the season of the Mad March Hare for Spring nonsense!

Fun for all ages and species.

Beltane marked the beginning of summer for Crannog Dwellers. Share blessings with us, make a flower crown and be Handfasted in our Roundhouse.

Everyone welcome, always inclusive.

To celebrate International Museums Day hear about our experiments and projects. See lesser known objects from our collection.

Everyone welcome.

An enchanting evening festival of live music presented in our Iron Age Village. Line up to be revealed early 2025!

All ages welcome. Pets will be treated like family.

£25/adult

£20/child under 16

Welcome to the Crannog Centre’s biggest event of the year. Meet Craftspeople from all over and watch them create. Experience music, story telling and the best puppet show in the world!

All ages welcome, that includes the family dog.

This solar festival marks the beginning of the harvest season. Join us for a celebration of bread and plenty.

All ages welcome.

A deeper celebration of Harvest. Learn about foraging and how we harvested and preserved our crops in the Iron Age, share recipes and taste some delicious cooking using prehistoric ingredients.

All ages welcome.

A celebration of connection and affection with all our loved ones.

Bring your granny (or anyone else) for a Special time to show her how much you care.

Special welcome for our fur family members.

Get Spring into swing with us and have fun with Springtime crafts and flowers. Bring a decorated hat and join the Spring Bonnet Competition.

Those without hats also welcome.

Learn how and what the Crannog Dwellers foraged in the lean days of Spring and look for signs of Wild Life around our Iron Age Village. Games for young and old alike.

Everyone welcome. Pets encouraged.

A weekend to celebrate all things pottery, both old and new. Make a pot of your own, see how our Iron Age Ancestors made and fired their pots. Make a paw print tile of your favourite fur friends.

All ages and abilities welcome.

Explore with us how Iron Age Crannog Dwellers travelled and traded with each other. Make rafts and mini coracles and negotiate trade deals across our village. Hear stories of distant journeys and sacred salmon. Fun for the whole family. Pets always welcome.

Join us for a series of nights of great craic around the fire for music, singing and storytelling. There will be a simple bar with hot and cold drinks available.

Everyone welcome.

This event is our festival of Communities and Connections. In association with Unesco RILA and the Maryhill Integration Network, we celebrate the many and diverse cultures, races and religions of Scotland, and invite you to join us in a celebration of all the things which make us different as well as the things which show we are all the same.

Everyone is welcome to share the joy of the Crannog Community.

Join our Fire Festival and start the winter off with a bang. There will be costumes and games aplenty and as much entertainment as we can fit in, finished off with the burning of the Wicker Ram.

Guisers of sizes, shapes and ages welcome. Doggy costumes encouraged.

£25/adult

£20/child under 16