Museums in Annan, Dumfries and Sanquhar Exhibitions, Events and Workshops April - September 2018

ADMISSION FREE THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT ARTISTS Welcome COLLECTIONS OF DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY COUNCIL ARE 2018 is Scotland’s Year of Young People. As we prepare our new programme we hope that it will have something in it for you. Whether you are young, old, or somewhere in between, we look forward to welcoming you to our venues.

To download a PDF of this programme visit www.dumgal.gov.uk\artsandmuseums RECOGNISED AS NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS 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.

Why not visit our museums in Dumfriesshire? Loans boxes Special workshops We offer special workshops We have a wide range of loans The museums are free to visit and Camera Obscura based on some of our boxes available for schools and temporary exhibitions - look presentations at Dumfries Museum are free to school groups community groups to borrow out for further information on when booked in advance. If you are studying a specific topic free of charge. These cover GLOW or through education topics such as Robert Burns, email circulars. and think that we can help please call us. We have a range of Domestic Life, Education and worksheets which may help structure your visit. Childhood and many more.

To keep up to date with our news and get additional information follow us on Facebook (@DumfriesMuseum) and Twitter (@DumfriesMuseum). Cover background drawing by Melanie Huxtable Annan Museum EXHIBITIONS AT ANNAN MUSEUM

Annan Museum NEW FOR 2018 A watercolour view of Bank Street, Annan DG12 6AA Annan in 1883 by John Tel: 01461 201384 Dixon CE, a printed ceramic jug from the Admission free Bush Inn, Annan and the carefully conserved Open 30 March - jacket that belonged to 31 October 2018 Lieutenant-General Colin Monday - Saturday Mackenzie (1806 - 1881) 11am - 4pm are just some of the items that will added to This family friendly museum houses a permanent the local history gallery Friday 30 March - Friday 25 May - Saturday 23 June exhibition on the history of Annan and the displays for 2018. Saturday 19 May Lady Florence Dixie - Scotland's surrounding area. A fascinating journey through Space: Fact time takes visitors from the prehistoric period Forgotten Radical up to the era of nuclear fission. Displays include and Fiction Florence Dixie was born in 1855. As part of the costume, First World War memorabilia, town This exhibition explores a Douglas family she was brought up and later regalia and a remarkable collection of paintings brave new world of science lived at Kinmount near Annan. One of the most depicting Annan and the Solway shore. Look facts and takes a giant leap prominent figures of the late 19th Century she is out for a 4000 year old Bronze Age burial urn, into science fiction. From remembered for her involvement with the British mummified baby crocodiles and the 110 year old a local observatory to the Ladies Football Club. She was a political activist piece of chocolate! Galloway Dark Sky Park who campaigned for women’s right to vote and The museum also hosts a lively programme of and galaxies far, far away stood for election, speaking out for the restoration special exhibitions and events throughout the there are plenty of hands of the Scottish Parliament. She was a traveller season, together with visitor information and a on activities for all ages to and even at one point a war correspondent. This shop stocking pocket money buys as well as local enjoy. exhibition explores the life of an enigmatic and history books and greetings cards by local artists. often misunderstood local figure. This exhibition has been developed in partnership with historian Stuart Biggs. TALKS AND EVENTS AT ANNAN MUSEUM Booking is required unless otherwise stated. Please phone Annan Museum on 01461 Saturday 8 201384 to reserve a place. September - Events are free unless otherwise stated. Wednesday Donations towards costs are always 31 October appreciated and help to make the museum Roman sustainable in the longer term. Invaders in the Solway Friday 29 June - Saturday 1 September The story of The Flow Country the Priestside The Flow Country is a vast area of peat bog in the highlands anchor and of Scotland and is the best example of its type in the world. the ships that This touring exhibition offers a rich and interactive insight carried into the importance of our peatlands – the diversity of habitat Roman they provide, their role as a huge carbon store in the fight invaders to our shores 2000 years ago. against further global warming and how they are restored We know that the Roman Army was Festival of Museums 2018 following damage by large scale afforestation. The exhibition almost invincible on land of its own also highlights how people live and work in this fascinating choosing but what is less well known Friday 18 May, 6.30pm landscape, and how they are connected to it. The exhibition is that it was closely supported by sea The Case of Robert Smith – Last has a rich variety of artwork, displays, and interactive media by a formidable navy. For many years Public Execution in Scotland and also offers hands on fun for children. an ancient iron anchor from Priestside 2018 is the 150th anniversary of the last near Annan has been on display in This exhibition was created by the Peatlands Partnership, lead public execution in Scotland. Robert Smith was Dumfries Museum. New studies have project partner RSPB Scotland. convicted and hung in Dumfries. The Mostly revealed that this may be one of the Ghostly Tour team describe their research rarest survivors of an invading Roman findings and the history behind this shocking navy. Find out more about the anchor crime which took place near Cummertrees in and how the Romans used boats to Dumfriesshire. conquer and colonise. TALKS AND EVENTS AT 27 and 28 July Visits to Silver Flowe Silver Flowe is Dumfries and Galloway's Flow Country, and this is a rare opportunity to visit, in the company of expert guides from the Forestry Commission and the Crichton Carbon Centre, this remote and special place, hidden deep in the Galloway Forest Park. The site takes it's name from the myriad of bog pools which, when viewed from the surrounding hills, sparkle in the sunlight. The bog surface is a carpet of delicately-patterned mosses, which support specialist boglife such as Sundews, Large Heath butterflies and rare Azure Hawker dragonflies.

Meeting point - 10.30am at Clatteringshaws Visitor Centre car park, near New Galloway. Participants will transported by minibus on bumpy forestry roads for the last 5 miles of the journey. Access over the bog will be on foot and dependent Thursday 28 June, 6.30pm on weather conditions, but expect wet, rough ground. Return – approx 2.30pm at For Peat’s Sake: Peatlands Past, Present and Future Clatteringshaws car park. To coincide with the opening of the Flow Country exhibition we will explore the Friday 27 July history, wildlife and environmental importance of peatlands on a national scale, Open to all, but especially for those working in peatland restoration or with a illustrated with examples from Dumfries and Galloway. particular interest in the ecology of bogs. We will visit Beggar’s Moss, where Andre Berry from Natural England will describe the long history of peat use in restoration is planned as part of the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership Scheme, Britain. Extending back to the Bronze Age it has been put to some extraordinary then on to Silver Flowe to discuss the ecology of the most important upland bog in uses over time. This talk explores the tools, techniques and landscapes of hand south west Scotland and its role in climate control. peat cutting, with reference to the collections in the Dumfries and Galloway Museums. Saturday 28 July Enjoy an introduction to boglife in one of Dumfries and Galloway's wildest places. Peter Norman, former Biodiversity Officer, will describe the special plants, insects, No previous experience necessary, with (optional) limited walking across the bog birds and other wildlife of our peatlands. From the intricate world of Sphagnum surface to discover wildlife and visit the bog pools. mosses to the mysterious nocturnal song of the Nightjar, each species is adapted to a life on bogs. These free events are being organised in partnership with the Crichton Carbon Finally staff from the Crichton Carbon Centre, will tell us about how bogs can be Centre and the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership. brought back to life after forestation and how important bogs are in capturing carbon – a major factor in controlling climate change. Refreshments will be served. FREE FAMILY EVENTS AT ANNAN MUSEUM Suitable for aged 5 and upwards, all children must be accompanied by an adult. Please wear old clothes - workshops can be messy! Where booking is required this opens one month before the event. To reserve a place please phone Annan Museum on 01461 201384 during normal opening times (Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm). Activities are free. Donations towards the cost of materials are always appreciated and help to make the museum sustainable in the longer term. Drop in spring activities

Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March and Friday 30 March - Saturday 19 May, Monday 2 April, 11am - 4pm Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm Find the Easter Ducklings Gallery activities to accompany the Find all of the ducklings hidden around the museum Space: Fact and Fiction exhibition and answer the Easter quiz questions to win a wee • Be an astronaut or an alien in our dress up bay chocolate egg and lots of satisfaction. • Follow the rocket trail Thursday 11 October, 6.30pm Thursday 5 April 11am - 3pm • Make an alien face mask What was the role of the Rocket lab • Space themed quizzes and colouring sheets Roman navy in conquering With Freelance Ranger Elizabeth Scotland? Tindal Friday 25 May - Saturday 23 June, Could the Priestside anchor be Make a mini rocket powered with air, 11am - 4pm, Monday to Saturday elastic or a simple chemical reaction. a relic of this Roman invasion? Gallery activities to accompany the Historian Dr John Reid presents evidence of Thursday 12 April 11am - 3pm Lady Florence Dixie exhibition the Roman’s use of boats around the coast Exploring the sun Exercise your right vote. 10 of our museum objects of Scotland and conservator Will Murray have been nominated for object of the year – vote for With Freelance Ranger Elizabeth Tindal describes a new study that is comparing your favourite Learn how to view the sun safely and make solar ancient anchors, placing the Priestside • Try on our Victorian-style corsets anchor in context prints using found natural materials and the light of our nearest star. • Gallery trails and quizzes Friday 29 June - Saturday 1 September, 11am - 4pm, Monday to Saturday Gallery activities to accompany The Flow Country exhibition Drop in summer activities • Interactive exhibition fun • Flow Country gallery trail Our summer programme of drop in craft activities and gallery trails are inspired by our the animals and plants you might find in the wetlands and bogs of Scotland • Colouring sheets and quizzes 11am - 3pm on each of the following dates • Animal and insect masks to make Thursday 5 July Thursday 19 July Thursday 2 August Frogtastic Fearsome flowers Birds above Drop in autumn activities at Annan Museum amphibians Did you know that some Find out the names of some Saturday 8 September - Wednesday 31 October, Use cardboard tubes, paper plants eat insects? Find out of our birds that live in bogs. 11am - 4pm, Monday to Saturday and pens to make fly catcher more, add some imagination Make paper bird models to Gallery activities to accompany the Roman frogs and tumbling toads. and make your own fearsome hang up at home. flower. Invaders in the Solway exhibition Thursday 9 August Thursday 12 July • Make a Roman boat model Dramatic dragonflies Thursday 26 July Slithering snakes • Anchors aweigh gallery trail Discover ssseveral different Find out more about these Cute caterpillars • Quizzes and colouring sheets ways to make sssslithering beautiful insects and make Use beads or paper to create paper snakes. your own giant dragonfly to these wiggly beasties. take home.

Further activities are planned for the October school holidays - details in the autumn/winter programme. Camera Obscura, Dumfries Dumfries Museum

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

Admission Admission free Adult £3.40 Open all year Concession £1.70 30 March - 30 September 2018 Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2pm - 5pm Open 30 March - 30 September 2018 1 October 2018 - March 2019 Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Sunday 2pm - 5pm

The Camera Obscura is on the top floor of the old windmill A treasure house of history in Dumfries and Galloway telling tower at Dumfries Museum. Originally an astronomical the story of the land and people of the region. Look out for instrument, it was installed in 1836 when the windmill fossil footprints left by prehistoric animals, the wildlife of the was converted into an observatory. From it you can see a Solway, tools and weapons of our earliest people, stone carvings fascinating panoramic view of Dumfries and the surrounding by Scotland’s first Christians and the everyday things of the countryside. A unique experience. Victorian farm, workshop and home. Museum activity trails and gallery investigations, visitor information and a shop with unusual and nostalgic toys, gifts and pocket money buys. The windmill tower and Camera Obscura are accessed via a spiral staircase – please telephone for further details. Camera Obscura viewings are not available when it is raining in order to preserve this rare historical instrument. EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM

2018 Foyer Exhibition Until Sunday 22 April 2018 Drawing by Lucy Hamilton - Until January 2019 Fossil Hunters: Saturday 19 May - Finding our Past Unearthing the Mystery 27 May From prehistoric axe of Life on Land For Enjoyment heads to a post medieval Discover how life on earth moved gold ring, this exhibition - Drawings and from water onto land 360-345 million showcases recent Until Saturday 13 May Saturday 31 March - Photographs years ago through ground-breaking archaeological finds Saturday 1 September discoveries made in Scotland. Drawing for Inspired by Dumfries made in our history rich World War One region. In Fossil Hunters, meet the people Enjoyment - Fossils Museum and the who uncovered these remarkable A display of art work Stories - Postcards Local Area finds, discover the scientific created by the Drawing For from the Front A display of artwork and techniques used to extract and Enjoyment group inspired World War One created photographs resulting identify them, and glimpse what life by Dumfries Museum a demand for postcards. from workshops held at was like before the dinosaurs. collections and the theme From beautiful embroidered Dumfries Museum by the Fossil Hunters is a National Museums of fossils, chosen to link silk pictures to utilitarian For Enjoyment Group that Scotland touring exhibition. with the Fossil Hunters field postcards they carried includes Photography for Supported by the Natural Environment exhibition. messages of fear, hope and Enjoyment and Drawing for Research Council and the Heritage reassurance from the soldiers Enjoyment. Lottery Fund. on the front line to families www.nms.ac.uk/fossilhunters at home. TALKS AND EVENTS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM

Booking is required unless otherwise stated. Please phone Dumfries Museum on 01387 253374 to reserve a place. Events are free unless otherwise stated. Donations towards costs are always appreciated and help to make the museum sustainable in the longer term. Friday 1 June - Saturday 15 September - Saturday 1 December Saturday 8 September Records of War Fun and Games As the 100 year commemoration of World War One draws to a close we Twentieth century toys and games reflect on what people from our area considered important to document from the museum collection during 1914-18 and to safeguard afterwards. The exhibition considers, what we now understand from these records, and what we think may be Rediscover playtimes from the past important in another 100 years. and have family fun with our hands on games and toys. On display are selected professional photographs from the collection of Annan photographer Frederick Gibbs (1888 - 1940) alongside amateur photographs, images of life at local Auxiliary Hospitals, poignant studio portraits and powerful writing from the Front and the Home Front. The exhibition will also explore some of the less often studied aspects of the war – conscientious objectors, trauma survivors and the role the Royal Crichton Hospital played during this time. Contemporary writing and photography inspired by the museum’s collection of war memorabilia will also be featured. Saturday 24 March 2018, Thursday 12 April, 7pm Thursday 26 April, Friday 11 and Saturday 12 May, 8.15 - 10pm Yuri’s night - Runaway Rockets 6.30pm 7pm start at St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries Earth Hour and other Space Disasters Galloway National Deadly Dumfries - A Historical Tour of Join us for the global Earth This annual event celebrates Yuri Gagarin’s Park Association Dumfries with Mostly Ghostly Tours Hour party, highlighting the first space flight which took place on 12 (GNPA) presentation 2018 is the 150th anniversary of the last public need for action on climate April 1961. Join the Dumfries Astronomy execution in Scotland. Robert Smith was convicted change. Find out more about what a Society for a talk by Dr John Davies, National Park might mean and hung in Dumfries. Between 1807 and 1868, he As the lights are turned astronomer at the UK Astronomy Technology for our community. Trustees and seven others met their fates at the old Buccleuch off, we will be stargazing Centre who will take a look back at failures of GNPA will discuss what Street prison. This new tour explores Smith's and moon watching with over 50 years of rocketry and space travel. National Parks are and how landmark case along with a collection of real-life freelance ranger, Elizabeth “We will see how chance, engineering a park might work for the stories of crime and justice... Tindal, followed by hot error and unforeseen circumstances can people of Dumfries and Explore a jealousy-fuelled murder in an old Dumfries drinks, fun star trails and turn success into failure in the blink of Galloway. This event is being close, the cold-blooded killing of a pedlar boy and making activities inside the an eye and learn how human ingenuity hosted in partnership with the gut-wrenching account of a double-execution... museum. Wrap up for all has sometimes snatched missions, and the Dumfries and Galloway Meet at 7pm St Michael's Churchyard weathers. If it is raining there astronauts, back from the brink of disaster. Natural History and Tour ends at Dumfries Museum with light refreshments will be alternative indoor Featuring runaway rockets, what really Antiquarian Society. activities. Suitable for all happened to Apollo 13, saving space Tickets £10/£8/£28 (family ticket) ages. stations and the 'curse of Mars’.” Age guide: 12 and above No booking required. Refreshments will be served. Tour lasts approximately 1 hour 45 mins Tickets from Midsteeple Box Office, tel 01387 253383 or www.ticketsource.co.uk FREE FAMILY EVENTS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM Suitable for aged 5 and upwards, all children must be accompanied by an adult. Please wear old clothes - workshops can be messy! Where booking is required this opens one month before the event. To reserve a place please phone Dumfries Museum on 01387 253374 during normal opening times (Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2 - 5pm). Saturday 19 May, 7pm - 9pm Activities are free. Donations towards the cost of materials are always appreciated and help to make the museum sustainable in the longer term. For Enjoyment Festival of Museums 2018 exhibition party Drop in Spring Activities Saturday 19 May, Join the “Drawing 2pm - 4pm for Enjoyment” and Until Sunday 22 April Friday 30 March to Monday 2 April Drawing for “Photography for Enjoyment” community Drop in gallery activities to (Sunday 2pm - 5pm, otherwise 10am - 5pm) Enjoyment taster to celebrate the launch accompany the Fossil Hunters session of their exhibition at the exhibition Find the Easter eggs Find all of the eggs hidden around the museum and answer the “Drawing for Enjoyment” museum. View artwork • Meet “Ribbo” and follow Easter quiz questions to win a wee chocolate egg and lots of organises drawing workshops and photographs inspired his gallery trail satisfaction. for all abilities in a warm and by museum collections • Try walking in the and our local area, enjoy footsteps of the earliest friendly environment. The focus Tuesday 3 April is on the enjoyment of drawing a relaxed evening of live land creatures music and purchase a wine, 10am - 12noon or and the journey together, not • Make crayon rubbing beer or soft drinks from 2pm - 4pm the results. Come along to a pictures of fossils Image of Ribbo by taster session at the museum. the pop up Observatory Building Ribbo Karen Carr Bar. Have fun with our • Colouring and quiz sheets Places are limited so please Meet Ribbo – one of the stars of the Fossil Hunters exhibition. grandmasters photo booth! book in advance by telephoning Find out more about these ancient creatures and make your 01387 253374. The “For Enjoyment” own clay Ribbo model to take home. exhibition will be on display from 19 - 27 May. Tuesday 10 April 10am - 12noon or 2 - 4pm Fossil footprints Discover how the first land creatures left their footprints behind. Make your own fossil footprint models to take home. Friday 1 June – Saturday 8 September Gallery activities to accompany the Fun and Games exhibition • Giant games - connect four, lego and more • Follow the Fun and Games gallery trail • Colouring sheets and quizzes • Talking Toys trail Drop in Summer activities Our summer programme of drop in craft activities and gallery trails are inspired by toys from the past 10am - 12noon or 2pm - 4pm on each of the following dates Tuesday 3 July Tuesday 24 July Victorian optical toys Toy stories Discover how the Victorians played with Fun interactive stories for children featuring toys. 3D and moving images using stereoscopes Create art works inspired by the stories. and zeotropes. Make your own animated flick book. Tuesday 31 July Toy Olympics Tuesday 10 July How many hoola hoops can you wiggle, how Magic tricks quickly can you catch the ball in the cup, how Everyone loves a fun many yos can you do with your yoyo? Have fun Autumn activities - Words of War magic trick. Make with our timeless toy challenges. some props and Monday to Saturday practice your magic. Tuesday 7 August Saturday 15 September – Saturday 1 December Pull along toys • Chose words from our word bank to describe the photographs in the exhibition Tuesday 17 July Make a pull along horse toy with wooden wheels. Peg dolls and dudes • Use our World War One props to take your own photo - what story do you want to tell? Use scraps of cloth, bits and bobs to Tuesday 14 August create mini people from old fashioned Board game bonanza • Gallery trail and colouring sheets wooden pegs. Try out our selection of board games and make up Further activities are planned for the October school your own version of snakes and ladders. holidays - details in the autumn/winter programme. Old Bridge House, Robert Burns Dumfries Centre, 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

Admission free Admission free | Open all year Open 30 March - 30 September 2018 30 March - 30 September 2018 Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2pm - 5pm Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm, October - March 2019 Sunday, 2pm - 5pm 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, Situated in the town’s eighteenth century watermill on the Dumfries’ oldest house is now a museum of everyday life in the west bank of the River Nith, the Robert Burns Centre tells the town. You can see the family kitchen, nursery and bedroom of story of Robert Burns’ last years spent in the bustling streets a Victorian home, and pay a visit to an early dentist’s surgery! and lively atmosphere of Dumfries in the late eighteenth Sit at the traditional school desk and try your hand at some century. The exhibition is illuminated by many original Victorian school room exercises. manuscripts and belongings of the poet. There is a fascinating The Old Bridge House is accessed via steps - please telephone scale model of Dumfries in the 1790s and a haunting for further details. audiovisual presentation. Test your powers of observation with a gallery investigation, discover Dumfries and Galloway’s 30 March to 30 September 2018 Burns connections and browse around the shop. THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND KIRKCUDBRIGHT ARTISTS COLLECTIONS OF DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY COUNCIL ARE Funded by Burns Mausoleum Tours Audio Visual Theatre Presentations 11.30am and 2pm Monday to Saturday Robert Burns - The early years or Dumfries - Queen of the Free escorted tours to St Michael’s Churchyard and the South RECOGNISED AS Adults: £2.30, Conc: £1.15 interior of Burns Mausoleum starting from Robert Burns NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT COLLECTIONS

AWARDED BY MUSEUMS GALLERIES SCOTLAND House. No booking required. ON BEHALF OF THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT A stair lift is available to access the first floor exhibition area. ROBERT BURNS CENTRE FILM THEATRE BOX OFFICE 01387 264808 Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE

Robert Burns Centre, The Robert Burns Centre Dumfries Film Theatre has provided an Admission free | Open all year alternative film-going experience We are pleased 30 March - 30 September 2018 Display Upgrade 2018 for over 30 years and screens a to announce the diverse range of films including Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2pm - 5pm The objects on exhibition at opening of the Robert Burns Centre are foreign language films, low-budget October - March 2019 “Recognised as being of National independent films, documentaries, Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Significance to Scotland”. The animations and short films. ‘The Willows’ Centre has been awarded a grant Our diverse programme is by Museums Galleries Scotland, complemented by activities Café / Restaurant who administer the Recognition which will appeal to a range of scheme on behalf of the Scottish audiences and age groups. We look government, to refurbish the to collaborate with community at the exhibition area. This work will groups, local and national bodies, Robert Burns Centre take place over the summer, and and individual practitioners to create special events tailored to occasionally it may be necessary Opening to close off part of the gallery. specific audiences and age-groups. Please telephone the Centre for Contact [email protected] or Spring 2018. further details. call on 01387 263094 for more details.

www.rbcft.co.uk The Willows Restaurant Summer Quizzes Robert Burns Sanquhar Tolbooth Tuesday 3 July - Friday 10 August How observant are you? Test House, Dumfries Museum your skills in our series of weekly quizzes, you could win a prize! Suitable for all ages. Robert Burns House, Dumfries Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum Burns Street, Dumfries DG1 2PS High Street, Sanquhar, DG4 6BN Tel: 01387 255297 Tel: 01659 50186

Admission free | Open all year Admission free 30 March - 30 September 2018 Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 2pm - 5pm 30 March to 30 September 2018 October - March Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Sunday 2pm - 5pm New for 2018 It was in this simple sandstone house in a quiet Discover Sanquhar’s world famous knitting tradition and the 1 April - 30 September Dumfries street that Robert Burns, Scotland’s story of the mines and miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel. national poet, spent the last years of his life. He What was it like to be a prisoner in Sanquhar jail? How did World War One Stories - died here in 1796 at the age of just thirty seven. The the ordinary people of Upper Nithsdale live and work in times John Fallas house shows us how the poet and his family lived past? All this and more can be found in the town’s fine 18th Before World War One John in the late eighteenth century, and is now a place of century tolbooth. A free audiovisual presentation and gallery Fallas worked as a carter in pilgrimage for Burns enthusiasts from around the investigation take you on a tour, revealing the fascinating story Sanquhar. He was awarded world. The sales area has books, gifts and keepsakes, of Upper Nithsdale. the Distinguished Conduct all with a Burns connection. Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum is accessed via steps - please Medal on 12 December 1917 Robert Burns House is accessed via steps - please telephone for further details. for conspicuous gallantry and telephone for further details. devotion to duty in action. His family kept mementos of his war time life and have kindly loaned these for display in 2018. Gracefield WHERE TO FIND US Arts Centre Railway To Sanquhar Station Tolbooth Museum L T O S V E (27 miles) R ' Y S W A L K G h M L t E C i A A N D T A H S r e C E G v A R i I O R N E W Ewart S

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