Museums in Annan, Dumfries and Sanquhar Exhibitions, Events and Workshops April - September 2019

ADMISSION FREE THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT ARTISTS Welcome COLLECTIONS OF DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY COUNCIL ARE Visit Scotland launched their #SeeSouthScotland campaign at the end of 2018. We love our local area in Dumfries and Galloway and hope that we can offer visitors from near and far an enjoyable museum experience here. We look forward to welcoming you to our venues. RECOGNISED AS Our events are listed on our new web site www.dgculture.co.uk where you can also NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS download a PDF of this programme. AWARDED BY MUSEUMS GALLERIES SCOTLAND ON BEHALF OF THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT EVENTS FOR SCHOOLS AND GROUPS

For further information on school or group visits please call Dumfries Museum on 01387 253374.

The museums are free to visit and Camera Obscura Loans boxes Special workshops presentations at Dumfries Museum are free to school groups We have a wide range of loans boxes We offer special workshops based on available for schools and community some of our temporary exhibitions when booked in advance. If you are studying a specific topic groups to borrow free of charge. - look out for further information on and think that we can help please call us. We have a range of These cover topics such as Robert GLOW or through education email Burns, Domestic Life, Education and circulars. worksheets which may help structure your visit. Childhood and many more.

Front cover: Dumfries man Robert Waland (1908 - 1999), optical engineer and astronomer, To keep up to date with our news and get worked on telescopes at the University of Arizona at Tucson that enabled astronomers to additional information follow us on compile an atlas of the moon surface that was used by the first astronauts to land on the moon Facebook and Twitter (@DumfriesMuseum). in 1969. This is image Y842 from the lunar atlas held at Dumfries Museum. Annan Museum EXHIBITIONS AT ANNAN MUSEUM

Annan Museum Bank Street, Annan DG12 6AA Tel: 01461 201384

Admission is free

Open 1 April - 31 October 2019 Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm Monday 1 April - Saturday 4 May - Saturday 15 June This family friendly museum houses a permanent exhibition on the Saturday 27 April Haaf Net History history of Annan and the surrounding area. A fascinating journey Annan Amateur Art through time takes visitors from the prehistoric period up to the era of Unique to the inner Solway, haaf netting nuclear fission. Displays include costume, First World War Club has been practised in Annan for over a memorabilia, town regalia and a remarkable collection An exhibition of a wide selection thousand years. With links to the Vikings of paintings depicting Annan and the Solway shore. of art work by members of and Kings, Riding of the Marches and Look out for a 4000 year old Bronze Age burial Annan Amateur Art Club. the fish cross - this interactive display urn, mummified baby crocodiles and the 110 Currently the club meets documents for the first time the cultural year old piece of chocolate! from October to April in a and historical significance of haaf net fishing. The museum also hosts a lively programme of comfortable room at Galabank Football Stadium on Wednesday This exhibition has been developed in special exhibitions and events throughout the partnership with Annan Common Good Sub season, together with visitor information and a shop afternoons. Members support each other in developing their Committee and Annan Royal Burgh Fishermen’s stocking pocket money buys as well as local history Association. Funded by Annandale and Eskdale books and greetings cards by local artists. creative skills. Area Committee and The Scottish Government - Marine Scotland. Delivered as part of the NEW FOR 2019 International Year of the Salmon 2019. Star objects to be added to the museum for 2019: London to Glasgow stagecoach jack, communion ware relating to Annan Old Parish Church and recent archaeological finds awarded to Dumfries and Galloway Council Museums via Treasure Trove.

iii Saturday 22 June - Saturday 22 June - Sunday 8 September Saturday 14 September - Thursday 31 October Sunday 8 September Plastic waste art installation Dinosaurs Coastwise - Where every The For Enjoyment community were How do dinosaurs fit into the evolution of life on Earth? name tells a story commissioned by the Dumfries and Galloway What can fossils tell us about these amazing creatures that This exhibition reveals the history and Eco Warriors to produce an installation piece to roamed the Earth 65 millions years ago? highlight the effects of plastic pollution on the stories behind the origins of coastal Discover some of the answers to these questions in this Dumfries and Galloway coastline. The resulting place-names by exploring the language family friendly exhibition that includes hands on activities art work invites debate about the human impact used to describe features between Redkirk for children (and adults). Point and Southerness. Using the first of our natural world and at the same time Ordnance Survey maps as a starting point highlight the importance of the work of the Eco Warriors in attempting to clean up our precious Saturday 7 and the exhibition looks at how names have Sunday 8 September, 11am - 4pm evolved and explains the meaning of words beaches. that have disappeared from our everyday For Enjoyment is an inclusive community of creative Doors Open Days 2019 language. Hands on family activities will minds of all ages made up from a diverse mix of Take some time out and visit the accompany this exhibition. people from all around the region. museum during Dumfries and Galloway This exhibition was created by the Solway Doors Open Days weekend (including Firth partnership. Find out more at www. our Doors Open Day Sunday Special). solwayfirthpartnership.co.uk/community/solway- Look out for further information in the coastwise press and online closer to the event.

iv FREE FAMILY EVENTS AT ANNAN MUSEUM Saturday 1 April - 27 April, Drop in summer Suitable for aged 5 and upwards, all children must be accompanied by an adult. Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm Please wear old clothes - workshops can be messy! Where booking is required Drop in gallery activities this opens one month before the event. activities to accompany the To reserve a place please phone Annan Museum on 01461 201384 during normal Our summer programme of drop in opening times (Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm). Annan Amateur Art Club craft activities and gallery trails are Activities are free. Donations towards the cost of materials are always exhibition inspired by the Coastwise exhibition. appreciated and help to make the museum sustainable in the longer term. • Picture gallery trail 11am - 3pm on each of the • Draw a picture to add following dates: to our Children’s Thursday 4 July Art Gallery Drop in spring activities • Decorate a Out of the blue butterfly or beastie Use a variety of printing methods Thursday 11 April, 11am - 3pm to add to our including bubble wrap, potatoes spring wall hanging and sponges to make colourful sea Get arty for Easter 1 creature pictures. Make decorative Easter inspired spring Saturday 4 May - 15 June, garlands, cards and gifts. Monday to Saturday 11am - 4pm Thursday 11 July Stories of the sea Thursday 18 April, 11am - 3pm Drop in gallery activities Get arty for Easter 2 to accompany the Haaf Listen to stories of the sea and pirates Friday 19, Saturday 20 Net History exhibition and take part in bringing them to life. Birds, beasties and animals and Monday 22 April, are the inspiration for more 11am - 4pm • Help us to decorate scales for the giant salmon Thursday 18 July arty activities at the museum. Find the Easter • Make a fishy face mask Seaside solar prints Make seed bombs with eggs • A fishy gallery trail Use sun sensitive paper and light to RSPB officer David Lewis Find all of the eggs hidden • Quizzes and colouring sheets create beautiful silhouette pictures Find out what the Royal Society for around the museum and inspired by seaside objects. the Protection of Birds do and answer the Easter quiz what you can see when you questions to win a wee explore our local area. Make chocolate egg and lots of a treat to take home for your satisfaction. feathered garden friends.

v Our summer programme of drop in Saturday 22 June - Sunday 8 September, craft activities and gallery trails are 11am - 4pm, Monday to Saturday inspired by the Coastwise exhibition CAMERA 11am - 3pm on each of the Drop in gallery activities to following dates: accompany the Coastwise exhibition OBSCURA, • Take the seaside feely box challenge Thursday 25 July • What’s in a name? Find the hidden words and “Tentaculous” jellyfish work out what they mean DUMFRIES • Follow the seaside trail Using paper plates and lots of Camera Obscura, Dumfries streamers and fabric to make • Colouring sheets and quizzes beautiful jellyfish mobiles. The Observatory, Rotchell Road, Dumfries DG2 7SW Thursday 1 August Drop in autumn activities at Annan Tel: 01387 253374 How big is a whale? Museum Stand inside our life size outline of a Saturday 14 September - Open 1 April - 30 September 2019 whale, learn interesting facts about Thursday 31 October, their lives and imagine how these 11am - 4pm, Monday to Saturday Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm giants of the deep glide through the Sunday 2pm - 5pm sea. Make tiny models of whales to Drop in gallery activities take home. to accompany the Admission Dinosaurs exhibition Adult £3.60 Thursday 8 August • Meet “Tea - Rex” Concession £1.80 Painting with salt (loves a brew) and The Camera Obscura is on the top floor of the old windmill Discover how paint mixes with salt follow his gallery trail tower at Dumfries Museum. Originally an astronomical to make fantastic rainbow coloured • Try walking in the footsteps instrument, it was installed in 1836 when the windmill pictures. of a dinosaur was converted into an observatory. From it you can see a • Hands on games Thursday 15 August fascinating panoramic view of Dumfries and the surrounding • Dressing up countryside. A unique experience. Treasure chest • Make crayon rubbing pictures of fossils Imagine finding a treasure chest The windmill tower and Camera Obscura are accessed via a • Colouring and quiz sheets hidden on the beach - what would be spiral staircase - please telephone for further details. Camera Obscura viewings are not available when it is raining in order in it? Decorate a special box to keep Further activities are planned for the October school to preserve this rare historical instrument. your treasures in. holidays - details in the autumn/winter programme. vi Dumfries EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM Museum

Dumfries Museum The Observatory, Rotchell Road, Dumfries, DG2 7SW Tel: 01387 253374

Open all year 1 April - 30 September 2019 Saturday 6 April - Sunday 2 June Roman invaders in the Solway? Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, 2019 Foyer Exhibition - Sunday 2pm - 5pm Until January 2020 The story of the Priestside anchor and the ships that carried Roman invaders to our shores 2000 1 October 2019 - March 2020 Mr Museum years ago. Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Alfred Edgar Truckell (Alf) was born The Roman Army was almost invincible on land Admission free 100 years ago on 14 February 1919. of its own choosing and was closely supported He was curator of Dumfries Museum by a formidable navy. For many years an ancient 1948 - 1982. During this time he iron anchor from Priestside near Annan has been A treasure house of history in Dumfries and Galloway telling the story expanded the museum collection, on display in Dumfries Museum. New studies of the land and people of the region. Look out for fossil footprints left increased visitor numbers, opened have revealed that this may be one of the rarest by prehistoric animals, the wildlife of the Solway, tools and weapons of the Old Bridge House as a museum survivors of an invading Roman navy. Find out our earliest people, stone carvings by Scotland’s first Christians and the of domestic life and started a more about how the anchor was made and how everyday things of the Victorian farm, workshop and home. Museum museum in Annan. He was a well the Romans used boats to conquer and colonise. activity trails and gallery investigations, visitor information and a shop known figure in the town and was with unusual and nostalgic toys, gifts and pocket money buys. awarded an MBE for his services to Also on show is the Bulbury Camp anchor, on loan from Dorset County Museum. This anchor is The windmill tower is reached via a spiral staircase - learning. definitely of Iron Age date and was found during please telephone for further details. the excavation of Bulbury Iron Age Hill-fort in 1881. It will be the first ever time that these two rare anchors can be compared.

vii WALKS, TALKS AND WORKSHOPS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM

Booking is required unless otherwise stated. Please phone Dumfries Museum on 01387 253374 to reserve a place. Saturday 8 June - Saturday 21 September - Saturday 21 September - Events are free unless otherwise Saturday 31 August Saturday 23 November Saturday 23 November stated. Donations towards costs are Set in Stone - Dumfries’ Coastwise - where Plastic waste art always appreciated and help to make sandstone carvings every name tells a installation the museum sustainable in the longer term. Discover the craft of stone carving, from story The For Enjoyment community were quarrying in Locharbriggs to carved This exhibition reveals the history commissioned by the Dumfries and gargoyles in the town centre. This exhibition and stories behind the origins of Galloway Eco Warriors to produce brings together stories from people involved coastal place-names by exploring an installation piece that would in the trade, contemporary carving, new the language used to describe highlight the effects of plastic images and research of local stonework. features between Redkirk Point pollution on the Dumfries and Over the past year, the Dumfries Historic and Southerness. Using the first Galloway Coastline. The resulting Building Trust’s Stonecarving Project has Ordnance Survey maps as a art work invites debate about the been celebrating the amazing history and starting point the exhibition looks human impact of our natural world continuing tradition of local stone carving, at how names have evolved and and at the same time highlight the working with volunteers to capture living explains the meaning of words importance of the work of the Eco memories and find hidden gems in the that have disappeared from our Warriors in attempting to clean up town archives. everyday language. our precious beaches. This exhibition was created by the For Enjoyment is an inclusive community Solway Firth partnership. Find out of creative minds of all ages made up more at www.solwayfirthpartnership. from a diverse mix of people from all co.uk/community/solway-coastwise around the region.

viii Thursday 11 April, 7pm Crowdsourcing Novel Thursday 25 April, 7pm Thursday 2 May, 6.30pm Eclipse Science with ‘Masons’ marks - What use Sir Robert Carey and his Saturday 30 March Smartphones - are they? dangerous world 8.15pm - 10pm A talk by Dr Hugh Hudson, School A Talk by archaeologist Patricia Finney (author P F Chisholm) Earth Hour 2019 - of Physics & Astronomy, University Moira Greig will be talking about the Anglo- of Glasgow Scottish Borders in the 1590s when Celebrating the Diversity Who were the stonemasons who Smartphones usually come equipped left such a built legacy for us today? the wars with Scotland had stopped of Life on Earthh now with excellent cameras and GPS Archaeological building surveys but the raiding, reiving, murdering Join us for the global Earth Hour party, registration. This makes it possible to often ignore masons’ marks or and firesetting was still going merrily highlighting the need for action on both record good images of totality, give them little importance. By on. Sir Robert was expected to bring climate change. After the lights go out during a total solar eclipse, and also systematically recording the locations peace with 8-25 men. at 8.30pm join us for refreshments to measure the timing of Baily’s Beads of all marks they can help identify P.F. Chisholm has published many and a candlelit storytelling session (also known as the diamond ring different building phases and add historical novels inspired by the inspired by the diversity of life on effect) with millisecond precision. information on payment methods for Border Reivers including her omnibus Earth. Stories and readings on the A free app will be used during the the construction. To date Scotland’s editions Guns in the North, Knives in theme of animals by Tom Hughes and next solar eclipses (Argentina on Masons’ Marks Project has recorded the South, Swords in the East. JoAnne McKay. Suitable for all ages. 2 July 2019, Patagonia in 2020). marks on 79 buildings. This event is presented in partnership with If successful, the smartphone This talk is presented in collaboration with Waterstones’ bookshop, Dumfries. Patricia’s observations in 2019 may provide the Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust as part books will be for sale on the night and can definitive estimates of the shape of of the Dumfries Stone Carving Project. be signed by the author. the Sun. This Yuri’s Night talk is presented in collaboration with Dumfries Astronomy Society.

ix FREE FAMILY EVENTS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM Suitable for aged 5 and upwards, all children must be accompanied by an adult. Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September, 10am - 5pm Please wear old clothes - workshops can be messy! Doors Open Days 2019 Where booking is required this opens one month before the event. To reserve a place please phone Dumfries Museum Take some time out and visit the museum during Dumfries and on 01387 253374 during normal opening times Galloway Doors Open Days weekend (including our Doors Open (Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2 - 5pm). Day Sunday Special). Look out for further information in the press and online closer to the event. Activities are free. Donations towards the cost of materials are always appreciated and help to make the museum Camera Obscura presentations are free throughout this weekend. sustainable in the longer term. Friday 13 September, 7.30pm The Dumfries Burns Club Autumn Lecture - Drop in Spring Activities Sailing from Kippford to Inverness This talk by Mr Bill Brydson is free and open to all. Light Saturday 6 April - Sunday 2 June Saturday 20 July, refreshments will be served. Drop in gallery activities to accompany 10am - 12noon and 2 - 4pm Roman Invaders in the Solway? exhibition 50th Anniversary of Apollo Moon Landing • Dress up as a Roman or Iron Age local On the anniversary of the first moon landing recreate the event • Make a with our moon landing backdrop Roman and costumes to make a unique Thursday 19 September, 6.30pm helmet family photo. Space related craft Midnight Heroes • Gallery activities, trails and quizzes for all A photo biography of the Titanic’s eight musicians and trails, the family. Find out about local their legacies by David Kaplan, Titanic Historian colouring man Robert Waland who helped David Kaplan, a Michigan resident, has been studying the sheets and to make the telescope used to Titanic for over 40 years. During that time he met eighteen quizzes map the moon, making lunar survivors of the tragedy. He has visited numerous Titanic landings possible. related sites in Canada, US, UK, and the actual sinking site on the Atlantic Ocean. He now gives presentations internationally on a variety of Titanic topics. x Tuesday 9 April, 10am - Saturday 8 June - 12noon or 2 - 4pm Drop in Summer activities Saturday 31 September “Anchors aweigh!” Our summer programme of drop in craft activities and gallery trails Drop in gallery activities to Learn more about anchors old are mainly inspired by the Set in Stone exhibition accompany the Set in Stone and new and make a model of 10am - 12noon or 2- 4pm on each of the following dates: a Roman battle ship. exhibition Tuesday 2 July Tuesday 30 July • Discover the museum’s Gargoyles and grotesques 3D Coats of arms quarried and Be inspired by carvings from Dumfries Build up a shield representing your carved sandstone and create your own clay creature. interests, just like the carved stone with the Set in examples all over Dumfries. Stone trail Tuesday 9 July • Make a gargoyle Soap carving Tuesday 6 August Tuesday 16 April, 10am - mask Chisel and scrape away to carve a Roman altars 12noon or 2 - 4pm • Colouring sheets and miniature statue, and add your own Discover the museum’s Romans altars, quizzes Felt flowers for spring masons’ mark. what their symbols mean and what Use felt to make pretty spring the Romans offered to their gods. bookmarks, hairclips and Tuesday 16 July Make and decorate a miniature altar Drop in Autumn decorations. Prepare for take off to take home. activities Get ready to celebrate the Friday 19 - Monday 22 April Tuesday 13 August first space ship to land Saturday 21 September - (Sunday 2pm - 5pm, on the moon. Make Stony faced Saturday 23 November otherwise 10am - 5pm) your own fantasy Discover some of the strange faces Drop in gallery activities to accompany the Find the Easter rocket from recycled carved in stone around Dumfries Coastwise exhibition ducklings materials. and make your own mask version. • Coastal “feely box” challenge Find all of the Tuesday 23 July Tuesday 20 August • Sea themed ducklings hidden museum trails New light through Neat knotwork around the • Colouring sheets museum and old windows Spot the fabulous designs on stone and quizzes answer the Easter Discover the carved stone patterns of crosses from Dumfriesshire. Use quiz questions to Lincluden Abbey and make your own string to make your own patterns of Further activities are win a wee chocolate egg and decorative window hanging. interlaced designs and animals and planned for the October school holidays - lots of satisfaction. carve these into clay. details in the autumn/winter programme.

xi Old Bridge House, Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries Dumfries

Old Bridge House, Dumfries Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE Tel: 01387 256904 Tel: 01387 264808

Open 1 April - 30 September 2019 Open all year Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm, 1 April - 30 September 2019 Sunday, 2pm - 5pm Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2pm - 5pm

Admission free October - March 2020 Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Cross the fifteenth century Devorgilla Bridge to the Old Bridge House. Built in 1660 into the sandstone of the bridge itself, Dumfries’ oldest Admission free house is now a museum of everyday life in the town. You can see the family kitchen, nursery and bedroom of a Victorian home, and pay a Redisplayed for the 2019 season, the exhibition visit to an early dentist’s surgery! Sit at the traditional school desk and at the Robert Burns Centre showcases a precious try your hand at some Victorian school room exercises. collection of artefacts that are of national significance.

Visitors can explore Dumfries as it would have been THE ROBERT BURNS COLLECTION CARED FOR BY The Old Bridge House is accessed via steps - THE MUSEUMS OF THE BURNS SCOTLAND PARTNERSHIP IS at the time of Robert Burns through a fascinating please telephone for further details. 3D landscape model, with additional information and illustrations available on two new gallery apps. RECOGNISED AS A Doors Open Days 2019 An audio booth gives visitors the chance to listen to NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT COLLECTION AWARDED BY MUSEUMS GALLERIES SCOTLAND Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September, 10am - 5pm contemporary performances of the poets’ songs and ON BEHALF OF THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT Take some time out and visit the museum during poems and younger visitors can discover more about THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT ARTISTS Dumfries and Galloway Doors Open Days weekend Scotland’s national bard through a new gallery trail, COLLECTIONS OF DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY COUNCIL ARE (including our Doors Open Day Sunday Special). Look out colouring sheets, word games and jigsaws. for further information in the press and online closer to RECOGNISED AS the event. A stair lift is available to access the first floor NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS AWARDED BY MUSEUMS GALLERIES SCOTLAND exhibition area. ON BEHALF OF THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT xii Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries 13 July - 5 October 2019 ROBERT BURNS CENTRE Jessy fair A portrait of Jessy Lewars is on loan from FILM THEATRE East Ayrshire Leisure to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Robert BOX OFFICE 01387 264808 Burns on 21 July 1796. Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE Jessy was the sister of one of the poet’s colleagues in the Excise Service. She was also a neighbour to the family when they The Robert Burns Centre moved to Mill Street in Dumfries (now Film Theatre has provided an Burns Street), becoming a close friend alternative film-going experience and helping with the children. She helped for over 30 years and screens a Jean Armour nurse her husband through diverse range of films including his last illness and Burns wrote several foreign language films, low-budget poems to the music she played, including independent films, documentaries, Inscription to Jessy Lewars, animations and short films. “Thine be the volumes, Jessy fair, Our diverse programme is complemented by activities And with them take the Poet’s prayer” which will appeal to a range of Newly conserved for this exhibition, the painting is the first of a programme of audiences and age groups. We look loans to the Robert Burns Centre from the Burns Scotland collection. to collaborate with community groups, local and national bodies, and individual practitioners to Doors Open Days 2019 create special events tailored to specific audiences and age-groups. Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September, Contact [email protected] or 10am - 5pm call on 01387 263094 for more Take some time out and visit the museum details. during Dumfries and Galloway Doors Open Days weekend (including our Doors Open Day Sunday Special). Look out for further information in the press and online closer to the event. www.rbcft.co.uk xiii NEW FOR 2019 Robert Burns Sanquhar New objects to be added to the museum for 2019 include recent archaeological House, Dumfries Tolbooth finds awarded to Dumfries and Galloway Robert Burns House, Dumfries Council Museums Burns Street, Dumfries DG1 2PS Museum via Treasure Trove including a Bronze Age Tel: 01387 255297 Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum axehead and a medieval cross pendant. Open all year High Street, Sanquhar, DG4 6BN 1 April - 30 September 2019 Tel: 01659 50186 Tuesday 2 July - Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2pm - 5pm Open 1 April to 30 September 2019 Friday 16 August October - March 2020 Summer Quizzes Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm How observant are you? Admission free Sunday 2pm - 5pm Test your skills in our series of weekly quizzes, you could win a It was in this simple sandstone house in a quiet Dumfries street that Robert Admission free prize! Suitable for all ages. Burns, Scotland’s national poet, spent the last years of his life. He died here in 1796 at the age of just thirty seven. The house shows us how the poet and his Discover Sanquhar’s world famous knitting family lived in the late eighteenth century, and is now a place of pilgrimage tradition and the story of the mines and for Burns enthusiasts from around the world. The sales area has books, gifts miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel. What and keepsakes, all with a Burns connection. was it like to be a prisoner in Sanquhar Robert Burns House is accessed via steps - please telephone for further details. jail? How did the ordinary people of Upper Nithsdale live and work in times past? All Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 this and more can be found in the town’s September, 10am - 5pm Doors Open Days 2019 fine 18th century tolbooth. A free audiovisual Doors Open Days 2019 Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September, presentation and gallery investigation take 10am - 5pm you on a tour, revealing the fascinating story Take some time out and visit Take some time out and visit the museum during Dumfries of Upper Nithsdale. the museum during Dumfries and Galloway Doors Open Days and Galloway Doors Open Days weekend (including our Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum is accessed via weekend (including our Doors Open Doors Open Day Sunday Special). 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