Museums in Annan, Dumfries and Sanquhar Exhibitions, Events and Workshops

April - September 2015

ADMISSION FREE DIARY START PAGE END DATE VENUE TYPE OF EVENT TITLE DATE NO FEB 2015 JAN 2016 Dumfries Museum Foyer exhibition Waterloo remembered xi 21-MAR 20-JUN Dumfries Museum Exhibition Next of Kin xii 21-MAR 20-JUN Dumfries Museum Free family activity Drop in Next of Kin gallery activities xvii 01-APR 31-OCT Annan Museum Summer season Museum opens for 2015 iii 01-APR 04-MAY Annan Museum Exhibition Strandlines iv 01-APR 04-MAY Annan Museum Free family activity Drop in Strandlines gallery activities vii 01-APR 30-SEP Camera Obscura Summer season Camera Obscura extended opening hours ix 01-APR 30-SEP Dumfries Museum Summer season Dumfries Museum extended opening hours x Old Bridge House 01-APR 30-SEP Summer season Museum opens for 2015 xix Museum Robert Burns 01-APR 30-SEP Summer season Robert Burns Centre extended opening hours xx Centre 01-APR 30-SEP Robert Burns House Summer season Robert Burns House extended opening hours xxi Sanquhar Tolbooth 01-APR 30-SEP Summer season Museum opens for 2015 xxii Museum 03-APR 04-APR Annan Museum Free family activity Easter egg hunt at the museum vii 03-APR 05-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Find the Easter chicks xvii 07-APR 07-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Gift boxes for soldiers and trench art xvii 09-APR 09-APR Annan Museum Free family activity Natureprint pictures vii 11-APR 11-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Yuri’s night xiv 14-APR 14-APR Dumfries Museum Free family activity Tokens of affection xvii James M Thomson - In and Out of Tam o' 16-APR 16-APR Dumfries Museum Talk xiv Shanter 16-APR 16-APR Annan Museum Free family activity A day at the seaside! vii 20-APR 20-APR Dumfries Museum Late night social event Bake for Victory! xiv 09-MAY 06-JUN Annan Museum Exhibition Crafting a Living iv 09-MAY 06-JUN Annan Museum Free family activity Drop in "Crafting a Living" gallery activities vii 29-MAY 29-MAY Annan Museum Free family activity Half term holiday art activity - clay tiles vii 15-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums Viking Raiders and Traders xv - xvi 15-MAY 15-MAY Dumfries Museum Talk Excavating the Galloway Viking Hoard xv 16-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums Viking Traders market day xv Discovering Viking Treasure - responsible 16-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums xv metal detecting 16-MAY 16-MAY Dumfries Museum Festival of Museums Viking Tavern xvi World War One - the landscape legacy in 28-MAY 28-MAY Dumfries Museum Talk xvi Dumfries and Galloway 13-JUN 19-AUG Annan Museum Exhibition Whisky, Wine and Wherry Boats v Drop in Whisky, Wine and Wherry Boats 13-JUN 19-AUG Annan Museum Free family activity viii gallery activities Sanquhar Tolbooth Commemorating World War One - The Brave 01-JUL ONWARDS Exhibition xxiii Museum Men of Mennock 03-JUL 03-JUL Annan Museum Talk The History of Smuggling in Annandale vi 04-JUL ONWARDS Dumfries Museum Exhibition The Making of Dumfries xiii "The Apprentice" - drop in gallery activities 04-JUL 31-AUG Dumfries Museum Free family activity xviii and workshops Sanquhar Tolbooth 06-JUL 14-AUG Free family activity Sanquhar Summer Quizzes xxii Museum 09-JUL 09-JUL Annan Museum Free family activity Wherry boats viii 16-JUL 16-JUL Annan Museum Free family activity Smugglers' maps viii 28-AUG 31-OCT Annan Museum Exhibition A game for girls? v 28-AUG 31-OCT Annan Museum Free family activity Drop in "A game for girls?" gallery activities viii 05-SEP 24-OCT Dumfries Museum Exhibition Time and Again xiii 24-SEP 24-SEP Dumfries Museum Talk Bog Bodies in Dumfries and Galloway xvi Welcome Welcome to our spring/summer programme of venues, special exhibitions and events. In this half of the brochure you will find information about Annan Museum, Dumfries Museum, Old Bridge House Museum, Robert Burns House, the Robert Burns Centre and Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum. If you turn the brochure over, you can find details of the lively programme of temporary art exhibitions, talks and workshops available at Gracefield Arts Centre. To keep up to date with our latest news, you can join our mailing list at www.dumgal.gov.uk/artsandmuseums or by following us on Facebook and Twitter. We look forward to welcoming you at our museums.

A PDF of this programme is available to download from www.dumgal.gov.uk/artsandmuseums. Updates available on Facebook (Dumfries Museum) and Twitter (@DumfriesMuseum)

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ANNAN MUSEUM Bank Street, Annan DG12 6AA Tel: 01461 201384

This family friendly museum houses a permanent exhibition on the history of Annan and the surrounding area. A fascinating journey through time takes visitors from the prehistoric period up to the era of nuclear fission. Displays include costume, First World War memorabilia, town regalia and a remarkable collection of paintings depicting Annan and the Solway shore. Look out for a 4000 year old Bronze Age burial urn, mummified baby crocodiles and the 110 year old piece of chocolate!

Open 1 April – 31 October 2015 Monday - Saturday 11am - 4pm Admission is free

The museum also hosts a lively programme of special exhibitions and events throughout the season, together with visitor information and a shop stocking pocket money buys as well as local history books and greetings cards by local artists.

iii Saturday 9 May – EXHIBITIONS Saturday 6 June Crafting a AT ANNAN Living In 1968 Werner MUSEUM Kissling settled in Wednesday 1 April – Monday 4 May Dumfries, where he Strandlines worked with the museum service as an anthropologist and photographer recording local buildings, crafts and traditional practices. By the late twentieth century many of these crafts had ceased to exist as a way to make a living, out competed by cheaper factory processes. The craft techniques were kept alive by skilled individuals and some refined the techniques to produce beautiful objects, still functional but with aesthetic properties that make them desirable to collectors. In the mid 1990s a craft development project commissioned four beautiful carved boxes to tour around schools and community venues highlighting the range of arts and crafts in the region at that time. Replenished with debris twice a day the This exhibition strandline marks the turning point of the features a selection last high tide and provides endless material of Kissling’s for the curious beachcomber. It is here that photographs the sea deposits seaweeds and creatures alongside the four torn up from below the waves as well as carved wooden debris washed down from rivers. Find out boxes and the more about what you might find on the treasures they Solway seashore and enjoy an exhibition of contain. photographs of our beautiful coastline.

iv Saturday 13 June – Wednesday 19 August Whisky, Wine and Wherry Boats Smuggling along the Annandale Shore The mudflats and shingle shores of the Annandale coast provided the backdrop for a secretive trade in smuggled goods which was at its height during the 18th century. The Isle of Man was largely independent at this time. Its merchants imported luxury goods such as alcohol, tea and tobacco without paying high duty to the British government. Smugglers sailed small boats from the shores of Annandale to the island where they traded for goods. Returning to the mainland, their illegally landed contraband found a ready market north and south of the border, and often further afield. Fortunes were made - and lost! From clergyman to tenant farmer, most of the community was involved, and the government’s customs officers and dragoons had little success in controlling an arrangement which avoided a universally unpopular tax. Based on the research of social historian Frances Wilkins, this exhibition tells the story of the people and places that played a part in the smuggling chain.

Friday 28 August – Saturday 31 October A game for girls? Scottish women’s football from World War One to the present day

Women’s Association football was first played in Edinburgh in 1881. Although further matches were played in Scotland throughout the 1880s and 90s, it was during World War One that the women’s game was propelled into the public consciousness like never before. This exhibition looks at the rise, fall and resurrection of Scottish women’s football from the munition factory teams of World War One to its place on the international sports stage today. Discover the stories of local teams, players and matches and how football helped to change the perception of women’s roles in society.

v TALKS AND FREE EVENTS Family AT ANNAN events MUSEUM Friday 3 July, 6.30pm AT ANNAN Talk on the history of Smuggling in MUSEUM Annandale by historian Frances Wilkins. Discover how Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, helped capture the ‘Rosamund’ and its cargo, how Annan became the centre of the tobacco trade and how a network of ordinary folk from Redkirk in the east to Priestside in the west gave the Annandale shore a notorious reputation. The talk will be followed by the launch of Frances Wilkins’ new book, “Annandale’s Smuggling Story”. Light refreshments will Suitable for aged 5 and upwards, all be served. Admission is free but booking is children must be accompanied by an adult. required. Please phone Annan Museum on Admission is free. Please wear old clothes – 01461 201384 to reserve a place. workshops can be messy! Where booking is required this opens one month before each event, and is essential unless otherwise stated. To reserve a place please phone Annan Museum on 01461 201384 during normal opening times (Monday – Saturday 11am-4pm, April to October) and Dumfries Museum on 01387 253374 November to March. Spring Events Activities at Annan Museum

Friday 3 and Saturday 4 April Easter egg hunt at the museum

Find all of the eggs hidden around the museum and answer the Easter quiz questions to win a wee chocolate egg and lots of Exhibition Drop In Activities satisfaction. No booking The following drop in activities will be required. available during museum opening hours.

Thursday 9 April Strandlines exhibition: Natureprint pictures 1 April - 4 May Drop in activities • Feely box – dare to put your 11am - 1pm and 2 - 4pm hand into the dark and guess the Arrange seaside objects and plants seashore objects within on special light sensitive paper, expose • All washed up – find the yellow to daylight and then watch the picture magically ducks that wash up on our appear. No booking required. beaches and uncover clues to solve the Strandlines gallery trail Thursday 16 April quiz A day at the seaside! Drop in activities • Colouring sheets 11am - 1pm and 2 - 4pm • Underwater art – make beautiful collage pictures framed by a Be inspired by the submarine porthole Strandlines exhibition and have fun with seaside inspired arts and crafts activities including pebble Crafting a Living exhibition: pets, shell animals and underwater art. No booking 9 May - 6 June required. • weave colourful threads into the Friday 29 May museum’s collective scarf Clay tiles • have a go at stick weaving 11am - 1pm and 2 - 4pm • art and craft gallery trail Roll out air drying clay and press in patterns to make • make and decorate a little gift box a decorative wall tile. No booking required. • colouring sheets

vii Summer Autumn activities at Annan Museum activities at Annan Thursday 9 July Museum Drop in 11am - 1pm and 2 - 4pm Wherry boats with artist Hugh Bryden Using card, crayons and imagination make your own model wherry boat like the ones the smugglers would have used long ago. Thursday 16 July Drop in 11am - 1pm and 2 - 4pm Smugglers’ maps with artist Hugh Bryden Look at old maps of the Annan coast and make your own smugglers’ map showing where your precious goods will come ashore and where Friday 28 August - they will be hidden. Watch Saturday 31 October out for the excisemen! During the autumn school holidays there will be further themed Summer drop in activities to go with the “A game gallery activities for girls?” exhibition. Details in the autumn/winter programme. Drop in activities available during museum opening Drop in activities will include: hours throughout the Whisky, Wine and Wherry Boat exhibition 13 June –19 August. • Table football • Smuggling smells – can you tell what • Design a football these mystery goods are just by sniffing them? strip • Wherry boat posers – dress up as an • Dress up as a 18th century smuggler and take a selfie with World War One Rabbie Burns footballer • Find the hidden • Kicking – a barrels – a smugglers’ football gallery gallery trail trail • Devious quizzes • Quizzes and and quaint colouring sheets colouring sheets CAMERA OBSCURA, DUMFRIES

The Observatory, Rotchell Road, Dumfries DG2 7SW Tel: 01387 253374 The Camera Obscura is on the top floor of the old windmill tower at Dumfries Museum. Originally an astronomical instrument, it was installed in 1836 when the windmill was converted into an observatory. From it you can see a fascinating panoramic view of Dumfries and the surrounding countryside. A unique experience. Open 1 April - 30 September 2015 Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 2pm - 5pm Admission Adult £2.80 Concession £1.40 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.

ix DUMFRIES MUSEUM The Observatory, Rotchell Road, Dumfries, DG2 7SW Tel: 01387 253374

A treasure house of history in Dumfries and Galloway telling the story of the land and people of the region. Look out for fossil footprints left by prehistoric animals, the wildlife of the Solway, tools and weapons of our earliest people, stone carvings by Scotland’s first Christians and the everyday things of the 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. Open all year April - September Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 2pm - 5pm October - March Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Admission free

The windmill tower is reached via a spiral staircase - please telephone for further details. x EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM

2015 foyer exhibition Tuesday 3 February 2015 - January 2016 Waterloo Remembered Why is there a monument to the Battle of Waterloo perched on a hill overlooking the Solway coast? 200 years ago at the Battle of Waterloo a French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher. This exhibition explores how the Napoleonic wars impacted on our local area.

xi Saturday 21 March - Saturday 20 June Next of Kin 1914 brought war to Scotland on what would prove to be an unprecedented scale. This exhibition reveals the profound personal stories of the separation and loss experienced by Scottish families and by communities with loved ones fighting abroad. The First World War separated millions of people worldwide from their families and homes. The impact of the conflict was felt by communities in every part of Scotland as family members fought across the fronts and news of losses were received. For the servicemen and women who experienced the conflict first-hand, keeping objects was a way of remembering this extraordinary period in their lives. Families coped with the loss of their loved Next of Kin is a touring exhibition ones by collecting and cherishing these created by National Museums Scotland souvenirs along with postcards, letters in partnership with eight regional and photographs sent home and official museums throughout Scotland presentations such as service medals and including Dumfries Museum. memorial plaques. Through a selection of these family keepsakes, this exhibition presents a portrait of Scotland at war, where the private lives of Scottish families introduce some of the themes and events of the conflict across the fighting fronts. xii 4 July onwards The Making of Dumfries Throughout spring 2015 our local history gallery will be given a partial makeover, some of our much loved collections will be redisplayed and new objects from the store will be put on show for the first time. From the 18th century onwards talented craftsmen ensured that Dumfries prospered as a town. Discover who the hammermen, squaremen, cordwainers and fleshers were, what they did, and how they contributed to “The Making of Dumfries” .

5 September – 24 October Time and Again - Photographs of Dumfries Town An exhibition contrasting late 19th century and early 20th century shop-fronts, trades and street scenes with their modern day counterparts. Images include proprietors, owners and staff outside their shops both then and now.

This exhibition has been created by Maybeth Jamieson, Rob Wells and Sue Greig.

xiii WALKS, TALKS AND WORKSHOPS AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM

Admission is free. Booking is required unless otherwise stated. Please phone Dumfries Museum on 01387 253374 to reserve a place. Saturday 11 April Yuri’s night 2015 This family friendly annual event celebrates Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight and promotes space exploration. Join the Dumfries Astronomy Society and museum volunteers for a fun night Thursday 16 April 2015 at 7.30pm of Stargazing with the astronomers and Dumfries Burns Club Spring Lecture space travel activities including: dress like James M Thomson – In and Out of Tam an astronaut, taste astronaut space food o’ Shanter – the story of a tale and build a balloon powered moon buggy Drawing on research for his recently published sandwich box racer. No booking required. book, “In and Out of Tam o’ Shanter”, Jim 7pm - 9pm Monday 20 April Thomson, president of the Robert Burns World Bake for Victory! Federation, will review and explain Robert Burns’ great narrative poem, Tam o’Shanter. In collaboration with Mrs Green’s Tea Lounge, we How did a poem set in Burns’ birthplace of are happy to announce Alloway come to be written beside the River a Mrs Green’s Cake Club Nith at Ellisland; who were the real people event at the museum. behind the characters of the story and what Dumfries Museum is hosting the National were Burns’ connections to them; how did Museums Scotland World War One touring Burns acquire his detailed knowledge of the exhibition called Next of Kin. Come along to secrets and rituals of ‘witchcraft’ in 17th a sociable cake club event and enjoy an after and 18th century Scotland and who were hours opportunity to see the exhibition. the Scottish and English writers whose work You can bring a homemade cake to share influenced Burns in writing Tam o’ Shanter? or just enjoy eating cake. Tea and coffee All welcome. Light refreshments will be provided. Dressing up would be fun but is served after the lecture when there will be not compulsory - prizes for the best World a chance to visit the museum galleries. War One themed outfit. xiv Saturday 16 May, 10am - 4pm Viking Traders market day Meet the Viking warriors and craftspeople who raided and traded through ancient Galloway. See Vikings dressed for battle, learn how they lived and crafted beautiful Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May clothes and jewellery. The museum grounds Festival of Museums at Dumfries Museum will be transformed into a tented Viking Viking Raiders and Traders market and a combat arena with a separate corner for hands on craft activities for Learn about the amazing children and adults. Light refreshments will newly unearthed Viking be available to purchase. Hoard found in Dumfries and Galloway and its Saturday 16 May, 10am - 4pm precious objects from all Discovering Viking Treasure - over Europe. Meet the Viking warriors and responsible metal detecting craftspeople who raided and traded through Derek McLennan and Sharon McKee of ancient Galloway. See Vikings dressed for Beyond the Beep were involved in the battle, learn how they lived and crafted discovery and excavation of the Galloway beautiful clothes and jewellery. In the evening Hoard in 2014. They will be on hand to (adults only) enjoy the Viking Tavern with let children have a go at metal detecting traditional drinks, foods, music and games. and will be setting up a token hunt in the Friday 15 May, 6.30 - 8.30pm museum grounds with small prizes for tokens Excavating the Galloway Viking Hoard collected. They will talk about their finds, the Treasure Trove law and how to metal In this illustrated talk Historic Environment detect responsibly. This event will take place Records Officer Andrew in conjunction with the “Go Minelabbing” Nicholson will describe International Metal Detecting Day. the thrilling excavation of the Galloway Viking Hoard Beyond the Beep is a small discovered in Dumfries company aiming to raise and Galloway in 2014. the profile of responsible The hoard is arguably the metal detecting and most exciting ever found in promoting detecting as an invaluable asset Scotland and contains precious objects from which contributes towards preserving and all over Europe. Light refreshments will be protecting heritage. In addition Beyond the served after the talk and there will be an Beep is currently involved in two education opportunity to visit the museum galleries. projects with schools in Dumfries and Galloway.

xv Thursday 28 May, 6.30pm World War One – the landscape legacy in Dumfries and Galloway Historic Environment Records Officer Saturday 16 May, 7 - 10pm Andrew Nicholson will give an illustrated Viking Tavern talk describing features in the local Ever wondered what it would be like landscape which are a legacy of events that to hang out with the Vikings for an took place as a result of World War One. evening? Light refreshments will be served. For one night only the museum gallery will be Thursday 24 September, 6.30pm transformed into a Viking longhouse. Visitors John Pickin: can purchase traditional drinks and enjoy Bog Bodies in complementary foods, storytelling in the Dumfries and stone room, music, crafts and games. Tickets Galloway will be available to purchase from Dumfries Over the years a Museum from 3rd April, adults only! number of human bodies have been Lindow Man Bog Body discovered in the ©The Trustees of the British Museum. bogs and peatlands Licensor www.scran.ac.uk of Dumfries and Galloway. Where were these bodies found? How old are they and why were they buried in bogs? And where are the bodies today? Join archaeologist John Pickin in a grisly journey into the region’s ancient past. Light refreshments Viking Raiders and Traders is supported by Festival of will be served. Museums funding from Museums Galleries Scotland DigIt2015 and Scottish Archaeology month events. xvi Free Family Events AT DUMFRIES MUSEUM

Suitable for aged 5 and upwards, all children must be accompanied by an adult. Admission is free. Please wear old clothes - workshops can be messy! Where required booking opens one month before each event, and is essential unless otherwise stated. Please phone Dumfries Museum on 01387 253374 to reserve a place.

Drop in gallery Spring activities at Dumfries Museum activities In addition to our booked Friday 3 - Sunday 5 April workshop programme the Find the Easter chicks following drop in family Find all of the chicks hidden around the activities will be available museum and answer the Easter quiz questions during museum opening hours to win a wee chocolate egg and lots of throughout the satisfaction. No booking required. Next of Kin exhibition 21 March - 20 June Tuesday 7 April • Discovery Desk – Open the Drop in 10am - 12noon or 2 - 4pm drawers to Gift boxes for soldiers and trench art find a selection with artist Hugh Bryden of challenges Look at the World War One Princess Mary tins and make which include your own gift box and decide what you would put in it. completing During World War One soldiers in the trenches made gifts an enlistment and souvenirs from the materials they could find around form, identifying them including used bullets and shell cases. Make your a mystery object own piece of trench art. No booking required. and designing a Tuesday 14 April recruitment poster Drop in 10am - 12noon or 2 - 4pm for a club or group you are Tokens of affection with artist Hugh Bryden interested in. World War One soldiers and their sweethearts made gifts to • Quizzes and colouring give to each other as tokens of affection. Make a heart shaped sheets. pincushion or a special card and decorate with a collage of coloured fabrics and sequins. No booking required.

xvii SUMMER activities at Dumfries Museum “The Apprentice” Saturday 4 July - Monday 31 August Our 2015 summer activity programme is inspired by new exhibitions called “Dumfries Silver” and “Town and Trade” which will be unveiled Summer drop in throughout the summer. gallery activities Learn about the life of an In addition to our booked 18th century apprentice workshop programme the through fun gallery following drop in family activities and a series of activities will be available workshops inspired by the during normal museum art of working silver and the opening hours. traditional crafts featured in • Seven Trades tour – a these displays, such as metal gallery trail taking you Autumn work, leather work and around the museum, weaving. activities at Dumfries discovering the practical, Museum Details of individual quirky and quaint objects workshops will be revealed made by the tradesmen Autumn drop in gallery in June. To receive updates of Dumfries activities as soon as they become • Make your own silver hall During the autumn school available please join our marked badge to take holidays there will be further mailing list by filling in the home themed activities to go electronic form available • Quizzes and colouring with the “Time and Again” at www.dumgal.gov.uk/ sheets photography exhibition. artsandmuseums or Details in the autumn/winter follow us on Facebook programme. @Dumfries Museum.

xviii OLD BRIDGE HOUSE, DUMFRIES Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE. Tel: 01387 256904 Cross the fifteenth century Devorgilla Bridge to the Old Bridge House. Built in 1660 into the sandstone of the bridge itself, Dumfries’ oldest 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 visit to an early dentist’s surgery! Sit at the traditional school desk and try your hand at some Victorian school room exercises. Open between 1 April and 30 September 2015 Monday - Saturday,10am - 5pm, Sunday, 2pm - 5pm Admission free

The Old Bridge House is accessed via steps – please telephone for further details.

xix ROBERT BURNS CENTRE, DUMFRIES Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE. Tel: 01387 264808 Situated in the town’s eighteenth century watermill on the west bank of the River Nith, the Robert Burns Centre tells the story of Robert Burns’ last years spent in the bustling streets and lively atmosphere of Dumfries in the late eighteenth century. The exhibition is illuminated by many original manuscripts and belongings of the poet. There is a fascinating scale model of Dumfries in the 1790s and a haunting audio-visual presentation. Test your powers of observation with a gallery investigation, discover Dumfries and Galloway’s Burns connections and browse around the shop. Upstairs at the Robert Burns Centre, the Hullabaloo Café Gallery hosts a lively programme of contemporary works by local artists. Open all year April – September Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 2pm - 5pm October – March Tuesday – Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Admission free

(Audio Visual Theatre Presentations, The early life of Burns or Dumfries - Queen of the South, Adults: £2.30, Conc: £1.15)

xx ROBERT BURNS HOUSE, DUMFRIES Burns Street, Dumfries DG1 2PS. Tel: 01387 255297 It was in this simple sandstone house in a quiet Dumfries street that Robert 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 family lived in the late eighteenth century, and is now a place of pilgrimage for Burns enthusiasts from around the world. The sales area has books, gifts and keepsakes, all with a Burns connection. Open all year April - September Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 2pm - 5pm October – March Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Admission free Robert Burns House is accessed via steps – please telephone for further details.

1 April to 30 September Burns Mausoleum Tours 11.30am and 2pm Monday to Saturday Free escorted tours to St Michael’s Churchyard and the interior of Burns Mausoleum starting from Robert Burns House. No booking required.

xxi SANQUHAR TOLBOOTH MUSEUM High Street, Sanquhar, DG4 6BN. Tel: 01659 50186

Discover Sanquhar’s world famous knitting tradition and the story of the mines and miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel. What was it like to be a prisoner in Sanquhar jail? How did the ordinary people of Upper Nithsdale live and work in times past? All this and more can be found in the town’s fine 18th century tolbooth. A free audio-visual presentation and gallery investigation take you on a tour, revealing the fascinating story of Upper Nithsdale. Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum is accessed via steps - please telephone for further details. Open

1 April to 30 September Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 1pm, 2pm - 5pm Sunday 2pm - 5pm Admission free Sanquhar

Summer Quizzes Monday 6 July - Friday 14 August How observant are you? Test your skills in our series of weekly quizzes, you could win a prize! Suitable for all ages.

xxii 1 July 2015 Commemorating World War One - The Brave Men of Mennock The Brave Men of Mennock is a roll of honour displaying images of the 43 men from Mennock and the surrounding area who signed up to fight during World War One. The frame was conserved for display as part of a national touring exhibition in Dumfries in spring 2015. The roll of honour is now being added to the permanent Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum display as a memorial to the men.

ROBERT BURNS CENTRE FILM THEATRE BOX OFFICE 01387 264808 Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries DG2 7BE

Upstairs at the Robert Burns Centre Cafe Restaurant Day times Monday to Saturday 11am - 4pm Lunch 12noon - 3pm From Easter Sunday to end September Lunch 12noon - 3pm RESTAURANT In walking distance from Dumfries town centre, located on the grassy banks of the River Nith next door to the Evening (for evenings booking is advisable) divine Hullabaloo restaurant, the Robert Burns Centre Tuesday to Saturday from 5.30pm Film Theatre is a small and friendly cinema with an action packed programme of new releases, classics and international films. Mill Rd, Dumfries DG2 7BE CAFE For details of the current programme please check the Tel 01387 259679 website at… www.rbcft.co.uk www.hullabaloorestaurant.co.uk