Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess No OpeningTime1 10 am - 12 pm OpeningDate1 7/9/2019 OpeningDate2 8/9/2019 OpeningTime2 10 am - 12 pm IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 19076 Refreshments No Street The street address Stonypath AddressLine2 Dunsyre Postcode ML11 8NG Parking Yes DisabledWC No 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 Little Sparta Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived southlanarkshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 3498 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource <p>Set in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Little Sparta is Iain Hamilton Finlay's greatest work of art. Finlay moved to the farm of Stonypath in 1966 and, in partnership with his wife Sue Finlay, began to create what would become an internationally acclaimed garden across seven acres of a wild and exposed moorland site.</p><p>Collaborating with stone carvers, letterers and at times other artists and poets, the numerous sculptures and artworks created by Finlay, which are all integral to the garden, explore themes as diverse as the sea and its fishing fleets, our relationship to nature, classical antiquity, the French Revolution and the Second World War. Individual poetic and sculptural elements in wood, stone and metal are sited in relation to carefully structured landscaping and planting. In this way, the garden in its entirety is the artwork.</p>