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  • Category: History & Heritage
  • Place: Dumfries and Galloway

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  1. Creetown Heritage Museum

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    Museums

    Creetown Heritage Museum

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    • 3 Visitor Attraction
    3 Visitor Attraction

    Creetown, Newton Stewart

    Telephone:

    +44 (1671) 820471

    Get a fascinating insight into over 150 years of Creetown's history through a large collection of photographs, artefacts, audio and video presentations and hands-on activities.

  2. Tolbooth Art Centre

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    Galleries

    Tolbooth Art Centre

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    • 4 Visitor Attraction
    4 Visitor Attraction

    Kirkcudbright

    Telephone:

    +44 (1557) 331556

    A former debtor's prison, the Tolbooth Art Centre is a delightful gallery in the Artists' Town of Kirkcudbright.

  3. Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum

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    Museums

    Sanquhar Tolbooth Museum

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    • 3 Museum
    3 Museum

    Sanquhar

    Telephone:

    +44 (1387) 253374

    Learn about Sanquhar's world-famous knitting tradition and hear the story of the mines and miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel.

  4. Stranraer Museum

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    Museums

    Stranraer Museum

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    • 3 Museum
    3 Museum

    Stranraer

    Telephone:

    +44 (1776) 705088

    Stranraer's historic Old Town Hall is home to this fascinating museum where you can discover Wigtownshire's past.

  5. Creetown Gem Rock Museum

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    Museums

    Creetown Gem Rock Museum

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    • 4 Museum
    4 Museum

    Creetown, Newton Stewart

    Telephone:

    +44 (1671) 820357

    The coastal village of Creetown hosts one of the finest private collections of gemstones, crystals, minerals, rocks and fossils in its award-winning Gem Rock Museum.

  6. Robert Burns Centre

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    Museums

    Robert Burns Centre

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    • 3 Visitor Attraction
    3 Visitor Attraction

    Dumfries

    Telephone:

    +44 (1387) 264808

    Situated in an 18th-century watermill by the banks of the River Nith in Dumfries, the centre tells the story of the Bard's extraordinary time in the market town.

  7. RSPB Mull of Galloway Reserve

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    Type

    Nature Centres & Reserves

    RSPB Mull of Galloway Reserve

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    • 4 Visitor Attraction
    4 Visitor Attraction

    Drummore, Stranraer

    Telephone:

    +44 (1988) 402130

    Find out about the local birds and wildlife at the Mull of Galloway RSPB Reserve which is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest.

  8. New Abbey Cornmill

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    Historic Buildings & Homes

    New Abbey Cornmill

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    • 4 Historic Attraction
    4 Historic Attraction

    Dumfries

    Telephone:

    +44 (1387) 850260

    The fully restored water-powered New Abbey Cornmill offers visitors a wonderful insight into Scottish rural life in years gone by.

  9. Gracefield Arts Centre

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    Galleries

    Gracefield Arts Centre

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    • 3 Arts Venue
    3 Arts Venue

    Dumfries

    Telephone:

    +44 (1387) 262084

    Gracefield Arts Centre presents a changing programme of contemporary visual art and craft exhibitions and activities.

  10. Broughton House & Garden

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    Historic Buildings & Homes

    Broughton House & Garden

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    • 4 Historic House
    4 Historic House

    Kirkcudbright

    Telephone:

    0844 493 2246

    Head to Kirkudbright where you can explore the 18th century Broughton House, home and studio of the artist E.A Hornel until his death in 1933.

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