Membership

Membership 

Step into history this Spring!

This spring explore Scotland’s rich history and landscapes with our exclusive membership. With access to the country’s most iconic landmarks, including its castles, abbeys, cathedrals and much more, you can create unforgettable memories with your loved ones.

So why wait? Sign up for a Membership today and start planning your next visit.

It’s good to be a member. Joining will entitle you to:

• free access to Stirling, Edinburgh and Urquhart Castles and heritage attractions across Scotland
• free entry to daytime events at our sites
• a 20% discount in our Historic Scotland shops at our attractions and our online shop
• a 10% discount in our cafés
• playing a part in the conservation of Scotland’s historic sites and preserving traditional skills, archives and collections
• a free quarterly members’ magazine
• a membership pack, including membership cards and a handbook
• Free entry to heritage attractions on the Isle of Man (Manx National Heritage). Half price entry to over 500 heritage attractions in England (English Heritage) and Wales (Cadw) in your first year. Free entry for all renewal and life members
• Collect our member exclusive History Hunt cards

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Contact Us

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

See a list of frequently asked membership questions.

Membership Team
Historic Environment Scotland
Longmore House
Salisbury Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1SH

Telephone: 0131 668 8999
Email: members@hes.scot

Our memberships are flexible and affordable, so you can choose the type that’s right for you. We have options for:

The perfect gift for anniversaries, birthdays, retirement, or any special occasion. Gift Membership gives your friends and loved ones free access to all our properties and daytime events for a whole year. Your gift will also help us to preserve and protect Scotland’s history for future generations to enjoy.

Once ordered, we will put together a gift membership pack that will be sent directly to the recipient, and you can make the present extra special by adding your own personal message.

If you are a Historic Scotland member, please log in to receive your 20% discount.

The gift recipient will receive:

• free access to Stirling, Edinburgh and Urquhart Castles and heritage attractions across Scotland
• free entry to daytime events at our sites
• a 20% discount in our Historic Scotland shops at our attractions and our online shop
• a 10% discount in our cafés
• a free quarterly members’ magazine
• a membership pack, including membership cards and a handbook
• Free entry to heritage attractions on the Isle of Man (Manx National Heritage). Half price entry to over 500 heritage attractions in England (English Heritage) and Wales (Cadw) in your first year. Free entry for all renewal and life members

Already a member? 

History may judge the last few years as being years of unwanted significance. Years that have conspired to keep 5,000 years of Scotland’s history tantalisingly out of reach. But thanks to the incredible support of our members, our history continues to be preserved and protected.

You help us manage over 300 visitor attractions
Our role is to understand, protect, and provide access to Scotland’s heritage for everyone. Heritage which includes a national portfolio of prehistoric and historic monuments, as well as collections that represent around 5,000 years of Scotland’s past. Together they form a precious national asset and your membership helps us protect it for current and future generations.

You help keep Conservation alive
Our teams of specialist architects and technicians work to conserve and maintain over 300 monuments and buildings in our care all over the country. Thanks to you we can provide advice on maintenance, repair and conservation science, and promote the use of traditional building materials and the learning of traditional building skills.

As well as Traditional skills
In order to care for the built environment, it’s vital that we keep traditional skills alive. We work with key industry and sector partners to pass that knowledge from generation to generation, ensuring that Scotland’s historic environment will remain in good hands for many years to come.

And Learning
We have over 5,000 years of history to discover. That’s an incredibly rich learning resource for everyone. And making sure everyone has access to it is what drives us. We work across Scotland to give people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to explore, understand and be inspired by our historic environment.

And Climate Change and Climate Action
We need to take significant and urgent action to protect our past for the future. Our castles are at risk of coastal erosion and our forts threatened by floods. We share the Scottish Government’s vision of playing our part in mitigating global climate change. and your support will help us to meet that critical goal.

And Archives
We catalogue and document each of our items. It’s extensive and painstaking work that includes photographing, scanning and digitising originals to aid their preservation and broaden public access. This allows us to commission study programmes which broaden our understanding of those precious items and contribute to wider research objectives.

Not forgetting Collections
History never stops and neither does our appetite for discovery. Without your help we wouldn’t be able to acquire new objects and archives to develop and enhance our collections.

And Safeguarding
From glass plate negatives to industrial machinery, different objects require different care. Thanks to you we can work with specialists to monitor and conserve the items in our collections which makes sure they are properly preserved for future generations.

And Research
You help us to understand and care for Scotland’s historic environment. Research is vital for informing our work, and for promoting a broader understanding of our history and prehistory. Research includes surveying and recording, conservation science, physical and digital archiving, and measuring the historic environment’s social and economic value.

Thank you
Without you our rich heritage would suffer. We thank you for your support, last year, this year and indeed, every year.

Keep up to date with what is going on with your membership by signing up to our enewsletter.