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Cumnock was a coal-mining village, and Keir Hardie (1856-1915) founder of the Labour Party lived here for many years. The pits closed in the 20th century and their sites were reclaimed. This small museum displays the industrial heritage.
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18th-century Palladian mansion with extensive collection of Chippendale furniture, and grounds. It's owned by a charity founded by Charles III. In Sep 2022 he was in residence here when he learned of his mother Queen Elizabeth's serious condition, and was helicoptered to Balmoral where she died that day.
Burns farmed at Mossgiel near Mauchline 1784-88 where he wrote several well-known poems, met Jean Armour and impregnated several others. Robert and Jean co-habited, and lodged here in town while waiting to move to Ellisland in Dumfries, which lacked a farmhouse. The house recreates his time here.
Scottish Industrial Railway Centre
Celebrating "pugs", the stubby steam and diesel locomotives that for decades chugged up and down factory and colliery sidings. And you can even have one pull you along in the brake van. No, not very far.
Fitness and leisure centre.