Scotland on the literary map
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Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, which is now officially open, is Scotland's first modern museum dedicated to her national poet.
The new museum in Alloway, Ayrshire, which has been open to the public since December 2010, houses the world's biggest Burns collection.
It features thousands of manuscripts, rare editions, personal artefacts and other items connected to Burns, offering a collection that will provide unrivalled access for researchers, students, tourists and Burns-lovers alike.
The museum will also connect to the living creativity of Scotland with contemporary commissions, exhibitions and programmes to showcase new Scottish writing talent, helping to promote the vibrant and continuing power of Scots language in literature.
Take a tour of the Burns Birthplace Museum with director Nat Edwards
Scotland's new Makar, or national poet, Liz Lochhead officially opened the new Burns museum on January 22, 2010. She was joined by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond.
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Did you know...
Burns correctly predicted the fate of the new bridge built by Robert MacAdam in his poem "The Brigs of Ayr". The new bridge was swept away in 1877, but the Auld Brig is still there, proving the prophetic words "...I'll be a brig when ye're a shapeless cairn".