Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren Yes Place The town or city Dumfries HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p><span>Gallery 1: Sound and Weave – the British Tapestry Group touring exhibition. Guided tour of the main collection picture store on request. Up to 5 visitors at any time. 10-15min intro with gallery staff – free, no booking required.</span></p><p><span>Gallery 2: Maggie Ayres - Orchard. Maggie will be in the gallery 2-4pm to chat to visitors.</span></p> OpeningTime1 10.00-17.00 ArchitectName Walter Newall OpeningDate1 1/9/2018 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 9398 Refreshments Yes Street The street address 28 Edinburgh Road Postcode DG1 1NW Parking Yes DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No 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 Gracefield Arts Centre Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived dumfriesandgalloway Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1055 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.07493,-3.607399; Description An account of the resource <div><span>Welcome to Gracefield, located across two buildings at 28 Edinburgh Road, the Arts Centre first opened its doors in 1951 to celebrate the Festival of Britain when former grand house ‘Gracefield’ was bought and converted by the local community. Since then, a further school building was added (gallery 2) providing more exhibition space, café, craft shop, printmaking studio and activity rooms.</span></div><div></div><div><span>Throughout the year we show contemporary art and craft by local, national and international makers and artists as well as selected shows from our own collection. Exhibitions are always free and there is also a programme of workshops and classes for kids and adults.</span></div> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1880s