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Robert Burns House
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Robert Burns House
Burns Street
Dumfries
DG1 2PS
Dumfries & Galloway
Scotland
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Collection details
Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Literature, Music, Personalities, Social History
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Contact details
General information (Tel)
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01387 255297
General information (Fax)
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01387 265081
Museums Manager, Nithsdale
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elainek@dumgal.gov.uk
Website
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www.dumgal.gov.uk/museums
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Open
April - September
Monday - Saturday 1000-1700
Sunday 1400-1700
October - March
Tuesday - Saturday 1000 - 1300 & 1400-1700
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Closed
Christmas and New Year
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Admission charges
Admission is free
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Discounts
Museums Association
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Description
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 brilliant life. He died here in 1796 at the age of just thirty seven. The house gives us a picture of how the poet and his family lived in the late eighteenth century. It is now a place of pilgrimage for Burns enthusiasts from around the world.
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Collections description
The desk and chair in the study where Robert Burns wrote his best known poems, the famous Kilmarnock and Edinburgh editions of his work, many original manuscripts and belongings of the poet and his family.
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Key artists and exhibits
Robert Burns, Jean Armour Burns
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Kilmarnock and Edinburgh Editions of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect".
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General Information
Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
Pre-booking service for groups
Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
Information point provided
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Collections
Specialist publications on collections available
Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
Public access available to collections information
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Children and Families
Events and resources for children and families
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Schools Education
Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
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Facilities
Mail order service available
Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
Research facilities for academics
Shop
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Copyright © 24 Hour Museum
Information published here was believed to be correct at the time it was prepared. Welsh language pages developed with CYMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.
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