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.

Built in 1920, the Tarbolton Room displays a gallery of Burns related sculpture and paintings, and one of the most important collections of Burns manuscripts in the world.