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Robert Burns came out from Edinburgh and took the lease on this farmland in 1788, his last spell of farming for a living. He had to build the farmhouse and byres, so it was only the following year that his family could move in — he'd finally married Jean Armour. Poetically this was his most productive period — "Tam O'Shanter" was written here. The farm remains much as it was, rearing cattle and sheep on the banks of the Nith. But it didn't pay its way and Burns could earn more as an exciseman, so in 1791 he gave it up and moved into Dumfries. The public drunkenness at the closing auction shocked even him.
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Scotland's National Centre for children's literature and story-telling. JM Barrie (1860-1937) went to school in Dumfries and often played with his friends here, and it gave him the idea for Peter Pan. You explore the house and garden.
A collection of military aircraft and equipment on a former RAF base.
This tells the story of the poet's last years, and the town of his day.
History museum with local exhibits. The camera obscura, up a spiral staircase on the top floor of an old windmill tower, is closed in 2022.
Small museum in the house where he spent his last five years.
This is a satellite of the Hunterian in Glasgow West End, with rotating exhibitions drawn from their main collections.