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Prison Entry offers visitors the freedom to explore Peterhead Prison on their own terms. Known as Scotland’s toughest jail, Peterhead Prison was built to hold the country’s most difficult and long-term prisoners. Its remote coastal location and uncompromising design shaped an environment defined by routine, discipline and endurance.
With Prison Entry, there is no set route and no fixed timetable.
You are free to explore the prison as you choose, lingering on landings, stepping inside cells, or moving between wings to understand the scale and structure of the site.
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Peterhead Prison is defined by repetition, order and control.
As you explore, the design of the prison becomes clear, long sightlines, stacked landings and rows of cells built to enforce routine and discipline. Prison Entry gives you the time and space to observe how incarceration functioned day after day within a large operational prison.
This is not a reconstructed environment. It is the real structure in which prison life unfolded.
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Prisons are not places to rush through.
Prison Entry is designed to give visitors the space these environments demand. Conversation happens naturally. Questions emerge as you explore. Understanding builds through movement, observation and shared experience.
This is heritage encountered slowly and remembered long after leaving.
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Prison Entry is designed to give you the freedom to experience the prison in your own way.
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