Museums in Scotland
Find out more about the Dumfries area and Scotland through its museums. Visit Robert Burns House, and extremely interesting museum celebrating Scotland’s national poet with many of his personal artefacts on display.
Just a few miles away are the sparkling exhibits of the Creetown Gem Rock Museum, the leading independant museum of its kind in the UK.
- Robert Burns Museum
When Robert Burns exchanged the role of farmer for that of Exciseman he moved with his family from Ellisland Farm into a tenement flat in Bank Street, Dumfries, close to the Whitesands and the River Nith ... - The Globe Inn Dumfries
Are you a Robert Burns enthusiast or do you just need a drink to keep out the cold? Either way, here's a pub that's well worth the journey ... - James Paterson Museum
Photographs, lecture notes and correspondence of the artist James Paterson (1854-1932) and members of his family, formerly housed in the James Paterson Museum, Moniaive ... - Cornmill Museum, New Abbey
- Creetown Gemrock Museum
The Gem Rock is the leading independent museum of its kind in the UK... - Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum
Discover Sanquhar's world famous knitting tradition and the story of the mines and miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel ...