Dumfries Museum

Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in in , is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era.
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  • Opening hours:
    March 23rd—September 30th: Monday—Saturday 10:00 AM—5:00 PM and Sunday 2:00 PM—5:00 PM
    October 1st—March 22nd: Tuesday—Saturday 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Dumfries, United Kingdom
  • Address: Rotchell Road, Dumfries, DG2 7SW

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre and Suspension Bridge, Dumfries.

Museum
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is a museum, which is situated 500 feet north of Dumfries Museum.

Bridge
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is situated 890 feet east of Dumfries Museum.

Bridge
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is situated 1,100 feet north of Dumfries Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maxwelltown and Dumfries.

Suburb
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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 , Scotland.

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is the principal town of 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 town until his death, aged 37.

Suburb
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is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in on the west side of the . The eastern-side was merged with to the east in 1929, and today eastern is a suburb of Dumfries.

Dumfries Museum

Latitude
55.06524° or 55° 3′ 55″ north
Longitude
-3.61458° or 3° 36′ 53″ west
Open location code
9C7R398P+35
Open­Street­Map ID
way 746679007
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Wiki­data ID
Q5313798
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In Other Languages

From Danish to German—“Dumfries Museum” goes by many names.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Camera Obscura and Arundel House, Church Street, Dumfries.

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