Glamis Castle Grounds
Museums & Science Centres · Dundee, Dundee & Angus
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Open now — closes 5pm
🏠 Indoor & outdoor5–88–1212–16Seasonal opening🐐 AnimalsGardensCastleEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Glamis Castle has stood as the ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne since 1372. The castle inspired Shakespeare's Macbeth and was the childhood home of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; her younger daughter Princess Margaret was born here. Visitors tour rooms spanning medieval, Renaissance and Victorian periods, including the medieval Crypt, 17th-century Chapel, Drawing Room and the Queen Mother's Royal Apartments. The castle sits within spectacular gardens featuring Douglas firs and an Italian Garden, with a memorial to Princess Margaret beyond it. The grounds offer guided tours, walks through the gardens, and seasonal events. The Castle Kitchen Restaurant and Pavilion Gift Shop are on site.
Family events include Kids Eat Free days and Summer Family Fun Days. Check website for seasonal opening variations.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Flask of tea
- Gloves
- Woolly hat
- Kitchen roll
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- I-spy book
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