Robert Burns House
Robert Burns House
Burns Street
Dumfries
Dumfries & Galloway
DG1 2PS
Scotland
Website
Museums Manager, Nithsdale
Telephone
01387 255297
Fax
01387 265081
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.
Venue type
Museum
Robert Burns House
Burns Street
Dumfries
Dumfries & Galloway
DG1 2PS
Scotland
Website
Museums Manager, Nithsdale
Telephone
01387 255297
Fax
01387 265081
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.
Collection details
Archives, Coins and Medals, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Literature, Music, Personalities, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- Robert Burns, Jean Armour Burns
- Kilmarnock and Edinburgh Editions of "Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect".
Collections services
- Public access available to collections information
- Specialist publications on collections available
- Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
Robert Burns House
Burns Street
Dumfries
Dumfries & Galloway
DG1 2PS
Scotland
Website
Museums Manager, Nithsdale
Telephone
01387 255297
Fax
01387 265081
