Peterhead Prison Museum

A great place to visit. You can learn a lot and see a lot. A lot of facilities are available. You get an audio set which guides you through. There's also a café and a shop. An awesome visit

What an amazing place. Historic and eerie full of real life accounts you will be totally blown away. The audio guide is excellent you can stop and start as you please. You wonder freely around the prison and explore in your own time. A fascinating place to visit.

It's just fine, interesting history and friendly staff.I which you could se a little more og the prison cells and other things.But by the end of the day a fine experience.

Both fascinating and terrifying. Its not been too museumed" basically it is as it was when it closed. We went mid December

I recently visited the Peterhead Prison Museum and took part in the guided tour with pre-recorded audio, The tour was pretty fascinating, and the audio excellent, having been in this prison in the 70s myself it was kind of surreal to see it in its current state, so quiet and eerie compared to the actual noise and mayhem that I experienced and remembered, great tour tho and you might ask why I’d come back after being in it well the answer is plain and simple that although it was a bad experience at the time it wasn’t all doom and gloom, The stories were engaging but my memories were much more interesting tho not for public airing, as they say what happens in Peterhead stays in Peterhead. I highly recommend this tour to anyone interested in learning about the history of the prison, only downside for me was I couldn’t get upstairs to see my old “Peter” but at least this time I could walk back out at my leisure, oh and give the wee Cafe a try if you’ve got time though not sure if they serve porridge or not lol….

Update- Took my son back again, this time to do the brand new View from Above, tour. Wow, absolutely incredible. To be able to go to the upper levels and learn in detail how and why the riot started was amazing. Loved every minute of it. Highly recommend.Took my 11 year old son, and we both loved. So interesting. Staff are super friendly and helpful. Not expensive. Loved the headsets for listening as you walk round

Really interesting place to visit, audio tour is good, the tour gives a great insight into prison life through the decades at this prison, gives the visitor lots to think about.Definitely go and visit if you are in the area.