Robert Burns Birthplace Museum – in pictures

Take a visual tour of the new museum dedicated to Scotland's much beloved bard
  
  


ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
As well as the major new exhibition space housing the world’s most important collection of his life and works, the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum comprises the Burns Cottage where the poet was born, the historic landmarks where he set his greatest work, and a monument and gardens created in his honour. Photograph: John Sinclair
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
Upon entering the museum's exhibition space, visitors are greeted by the poet's writing desk and chair Photograph: PR
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
A pupil from Alloway Primary School in Ayrshire tries out one of the museum's many interactive elements Photograph: Wattie Cheung Photography
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
Rather humbler than the new museum, but within a few minutes' walk, the Burns Cottage is where the bard was born in 1759 Photograph: John Sinclair
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
Scotland's freshly-appointed makar Liz Lochhead officially opened the museum on Friday. Photograph: Lenny Warren / Warren Media
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
Kenyan Findlay (4) and Shaun Chalmers (4) enjoy the museum's interactive Burns Supper Photograph: Wattie Cheung
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
The museum's Fame display tracks the bard's rise from ploughman poet to global icon. The Last Supper, shown here, was created by Iain McIntosh Photograph: PR
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
The Scots language is a major feature of the new exhibits, designed to enhance understanding of the bard's 'mither tongue' Photograph: John Sinclair
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
The Chapter and Verse display, exploring the long association of Burns's verse with music includes amongst the objects on display Burns's own guitar (right). Photograph: PR
ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE : ROBERT BURNS BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM
Kenyan Findlay, four, meets a not so wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie in the form of artist Kenny Hunter's 7ft cast iron sculpture 'Monument to a Mouse' which is installed on the Poet's Path in the museum grounds Photograph: Wattie Cheung
 

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