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This exhibition celebrates the vast wealth of treasures that have been collected by the people of this region and that are now cared for at Dumfries Museum.

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Doon Valley Museum, 2nd February – 28th April (Free Admission). A fascinating exhibition which explores prints and their development, showing a wide range of techniques used by print-makers. The exhibition features East Ayrshire’s own collections of historic and more contemporary screen-prints, etchings, lithographs and more, and includes works from Scotland, England and across Europe.

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Barony Gallery, February 2nd – April 28th (Free Admission). The sea, lochs and rivers have been subjects of interest for painters throughout the ages. They can offer spectacles of stillness and tranquillity or in contrast, movement and turmoil. This exhibition explores this theme and features paintings by Scottish, English and continental artists.

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Help Dumfries celebrate the birth of Robert Burns and make this the Biggest Burns Supper ever.

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North Museum, 21st Jan - 12th May Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm (Admission Free). Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933) was a member of that loose association of young Scottish artists active towards the end of the 19th century who we now know as ‘the Glasgow Boys’. Along with his close friend and collaborator, George Henry, Hornel was arguably among the most experimental of the painters within this group.

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This exhibition describes the friendship between Robert Graham, 12th Laird of Fintry in Forfarshire, and Robert Burns.

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This exhibition reveals the story of Dumfries Dock.

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'Hat Trick' tells the story of gentlemen's headwear through the ages. Tuesday-Saturday 10am-1pm, 2pm-5pm

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