Wellwood Centre & Irvine Burns Club

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Title

Wellwood Centre & Irvine Burns Club

Description

A 4-star visitor attraction. Fascinating display of original Burns material and items of the Royal Burgh of Irvine.

Collection of holograph letters, including Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Margaret Thatcher. Audio-visual display illustrating Burns' life in Irvine.

Interesting glass in stairs and music room by Paul Lucky.

Irvine Burns Club, founded in 1826 and one of the oldest, has one of Scotland's most significant Burns treasure troves.

Statue by Alan B Herriot.

Barometer from Irvine Lifeboat Station.

The Templeton chair taken to Australia 1909 recently returned.

Source

ayrshire

Type

Museum

Identifier

646

Spatial Coverage

current,55.61694,-4.668395;

Museum Item Type Metadata

Street

Wellwood

Place

Irvine

IsNewThisYear

No

AddressLine2

Eglinton Street

OpeningDate1

7/9/2019

OpeningDate2

8/9/2019

OpeningTime1

10:00-16:00

OpeningTime2

10:00-16:00

Activities

Wheelchair access, ground floor only.

WC

Yes

DisabledWC

No

DisabledAccess

Yes

Refreshments

No

EventsForChildren

No

Parking

No

HearingLoop

No

LimitedAccess

No

NotAccessible

No

ID

10646

IsIncludedThisYear

Yes

Postcode

KA12 0DG

Citation

“Wellwood Centre & Irvine Burns Club,” Digital Open Doors, accessed November 5, 2024, https://ddo.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/644.

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