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Kinnaird Head Lighthouse is in Fraserburgh, a town in Aberdeenshire in northeastern Scotland. The original navigational light at Kinnaird Head was a simple lantern placed in a tower of a sixteenth century castle in 1787, installed by Thomas Smith of Edinburgh. The engineer Robert Stevenson\u2014Thomas Smith\u2019s son-in-law and the grandfather of the famous writer Robert Louis Stevenson\u2014improved the lighthouse in 1822 and 1823, and there were further improvements in the early 1850s by Robert\u2019s son, Alan Stevenson. \n\n\n\nKinnaird Head Lighthouse (U.S. Lighthouse Society archives)\n\n\n\nThe old lighthouse keeper\u2019s house and other buildings are now home to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. The museum tells the story of the Northern Lighthouse Board, the engineers who built the lights and the keepers who tended them. \n\n\n\nLynda McGuigan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynda McGuigan is the museum manager with overall responsibility for the whole site including the staff, the lighthouse, the castle, and of course the museum itself. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Strachan\n\n\n\nMichael Strachan is the collections manager and also a published historian. He is responsible for displaying and taking care of the museum\u2019s nationally recognized lighthouse collection, and he is the author of three books including Scottish Lighthouses: An Illustrated History and Kinnaird Head Lighthouse: An Illustrated History.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMuseum of Scottish Lighthouses\n\n\n\nMuseum Shop