Burns Cottage Museum, Alloway

Built in 1900, and extended over the years, Burns Cottage Museum now houses the world's most important collection of Burns manuscripts and artefacts. Several hundred original manuscripts of Burns' poems, songs and letters are complemented by a fascinating collection of personal items belonging to the Poet and his family.

The museum also has a wide collection of so-called 'Burnsiana', mementoes of Burns and his work which demonstrate his continuing popularity, and a library stocked with thousands of books by or about Robert Burns. The names of the rooms; Alloway, Tarbolton and Mauchline are taken from those places in Ayrshire where Burns lived, worked and wrote.

Burns Monument - Patrick Auld

This painting in oils by Patrick C. Auld shows Burns Monument from a viewpoint on the South bank of the river Doon. It is depicted without the New Alloway Kirk present, built in 1858, and includes both the old and new brigs o' Doon, the old ruined Alloway Kirk and Burns Cottage in the distance.

The painting is one of two he is known to have produced of this subject and is interesting for the inclusion of the distant view of the Isle of Arran seen above the span of the New brig O' Doon. Whether all these features were truly visible from this spot at the time is doubtful.

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Home About News & Events Online Gallery Object Catalogue Venues Learning Poems Useful Links Working with Collections Contact us	Burns Cottage Museum, Alloway Built in 1900, and extended over the years, Burns Cottage Museum now houses the world's most important collection of Burns manuscripts and artefacts. Several hundred original manuscripts of Burns' poems, songs and letters are complemented by a fascinating collection of personal items belonging to the Poet and his family. The museum also has a wide collection of so-called 'Burnsiana', mementoes of Burns and his work which demonstrate his continuing popularity, and a library stocked with thousands of books by or about Robert Burns. The names of the rooms; Alloway, Tarbolton and Mauchline are taken from those places in Ayrshire where Burns lived, worked and wrote. Burns Monument - Patrick Auld This painting in oils by Patrick C. Auld shows Burns Monument from a viewpoint on the South bank of the river Doon. It is depicted without the New Alloway Kirk present, built in 1858, and includes both the old and new brigs o' Doon, the old ruined Alloway Kirk and Burns Cottage in the distance. The painting is one of two he is known to have produced of this subject and is interesting for the inclusion of the distant view of the Isle of Arran seen above the span of the New brig O' Doon. Whether all these features were truly visible from this spot at the time is doubtful.	Objects of Interest in this room Holy Fair Burn's Monument Betrothal Alloway Kirk Burns Cottage and Museum Room Tours Mauchline Room Tarbolton Room Other Locations Burns Monument Virtual Tours Burns Cottage and Museum, Alloway Bachelors' Club, Tarbolton Burns House Museum, Mauchline Writers' Museum, Edinburgh Ellisland Farm, near Dumfries Robert Burns House, Dumfries
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