Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren Yes Place The town or city Dumfries HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p><strong>Free Camera Obscura Presentations</strong></p><p>The museum will be open for the advertised Doors Open times and entry is free. There will also be free camera obscura presentations during Doors Open Day (normal prices £3.60 / £1.80 concessions). Please note that camera obscura presentations are weather dependent and restricted to 15 people per session. The Camera Obscura is access by a spiral staircase.</p><p> </p> OpeningTime1 10 am to 5 pm ArchitectName Walter Newall drew the plans for converting the 1700s windmill into an observatory in 1836. OpeningDate1 7/9/2019 OpeningDate2 8/9/2019 OpeningTime2 10 am to 5 pm IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 9840 Refreshments No Street The street address The Observatory AddressLine2 Rotchell Road Postcode DG2 7SW Parking Yes DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess Yes NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived dumfriesandgalloway Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1039 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.06489,-3.614995; Description An account of the resource <p><span>A treasure house of history in Dumfries and Galloway telling the story of the land and people of the region. Look out for fossil footprints left by prehistoric animals, the wildlife of the Solway, tools and weapons of our earliest people, stone carvings by Scotland’s first Christians and the everyday things of the Victorian farm, workshop and home. Museum activity trails and gallery investigations, visitor information and a shop with unusual and nostalgic toys, gifts and pocket money buys.</span></p><p><span>The windmill tower and Camera Obscura are accessed via a spiral staircase – please telephone for further details. Camera Obscura viewings are not available when it is raining in order to preserve this rare historical instrument.</span></p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18th century