The Highland Folk Museum at Newtonmore presents an immersive outdoor village that recreates 18th-century Highland life with authentic thatched roofs, turf walls, and peat-smoked air. The Smokehouse, part of the MacKenzie village complex, stands as a tangible link to traditional foodways, crafts, and daily routines that shaped life on the Highland frontier. Surrounded by moorland and the pale sweep of the Cairngorms, the site blends history with a palpable sense of place—where guides and costumed interpreters bring kitchen fires, barter, and communal work to life. For visitors and filmmakers alike, the atmosphere resonates with quiet dignity and rugged beauty, evoking the era that Outlander fans recognize from the MacKenzie village scenes.

Nestled near Newtonmore in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, the Highland Folk Museum – Farm is an immersive outdoor museum that recreates an 18th‑century Highland crofting village. The site preserves traditional thatched cottages, a working farm, and craft workshops, inviting visitors to step into daily life as it would have been for tenant farmers and their families. Surrounded by open moorland and the scents of peat smoke, the village atmosphere evokes the resilience and communal spirit of the era. The farm site has long been a favorite backdrop for period drama, notably providing MacKenzie village exteriors for Outlander.

Nestled in Newtonmore’s Highlands, the Highland Folk Museum's Shieling Hut stands as a tactile portal to 18th-century Highland life. The outdoor museum preserves a working village of thatched crofts, peat roofs and stone byres, where costumed interpreters recount daily chores and seasonal migrations among shepherds and tradespeople. The site’s rugged atmosphere rings with wind, open skies and the scent of peat smoke as visitors wander between huts, cattle sheds and herb gardens. The Shieling Hut itself offers a window into seasonal grazing camps and pastoral life that provided the backdrop for Outlander’s MacKenzie village scenes.