Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura is a museum in Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland. Camera Obscura is situated nearby to Dumfries Museum, as well as near the building Arundel House, Church Street, Dumfries.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dumfries Museum and Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre.
Dumfries Museum
Museum
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Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in Dumfries & Galloway, is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era.
Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre
Museum
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Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre is a museum, which is situated 450 feet north of Camera Obscura.
Devorgilla Bridge
Bridge
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Devorgilla Bridge is situated 1,100 feet north of Camera Obscura.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maxwelltown and Dumfries.
Maxwelltown
Suburb
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Maxwelltown was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh and by the time of the burgh's abolition in 1929 it was the most populous burgh in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
Dumfries
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Dumfries is the principal town of Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland. It's a pleasant market town, with a population of 46,500 in 2020. Robert Burns the poet spent his last years here: from 1788 to 1791 at Ellisland Farm 7 miles north, then in Dumfries town until his death, aged 37.
Troqueer
Suburb
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Troqueer is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway on the west side of the River Nith. The eastern-side was merged with Dumfries to the east in 1929, and today eastern Troqueer is a suburb of Dumfries.
Camera Obscura
- Type: Museum
- Postal code: DG2 7SW
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.06541° or 55° 3′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.61473° or 3° 36′ 53″ westOpen location code
9C7R398P+54OpenStreetMap ID
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