News from Ellisland Museum and Farm
Ellisland awarded £60,000 to bring the home of Robert and Jean Burns to life
Wed, 26th Aug 2026
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We are delighted to have been awarded £60,000 by Museums Galleries Scotland to design the storytelling experience that visitors will encounter when Ellisland is restored. The grant comes from the…
Cabinet Secretary visits Ellisland to hear plans for the home of Auld Lang Syne
Thu, 13th Aug 2026
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Stephen Flynn MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Tourism and Transport, visited Ellisland Museum and Farm in Dumfriesshire on Wednesday 12 August to hear about plans to transform the site into…
Robert Burns’s cup returns to Ellisland after more than a century in Australia
Wed, 8th Jul 2026
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A horn drinking cup used by Robert Burns has been repatriated from Australia and returned to Ellisland, where the poet is thought to have last used it more than two…
Young people lend their voices to Ellisland Poetry Trail
Wed, 17th Jun 2026
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Prize-winning young reciters from schools across Dumfries and Galloway have lent their voices to a new poetry trail at Ellisland Museum and Farm by recording poems Robert Burns wrote during…
Council funding secures next phase of Ellisland’s restoration
Tue, 16th Jun 2026
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We are delighted to share that Dumfries and Galloway Council has awarded the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust £270,061 towards the next stage in the restoration of Ellisland Farm, the only…
New discoveries at Robert Burns’s Ellisland Farm
Fri, 5th Jun 2026
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A stand of mature Beech trees in the grounds of Ellisland Farm in Dumfriesshire is believed to have been planted by Robert Burns himself more than two centuries ago, when…
Ellisland Farm to feature on BBC Scotland’s Landward
Wed, 27th May 2026
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Ellilsand will feature on BBC Scotland’s Landward this week, as the programme explores how life there shaped Robert Burns, and how the farm is being protected for the future. The…
Feeling the Connection
Sun, 12th Apr 2026
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“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel…” I thought of these words by the great…
The Burns Family Flute to Play in New York
Tue, 7th Apr 2026
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A 200-year-old flute once owned by Robert Burns’s son is to be played in the United States for the first time, as part of an international campaign to save Ellisland…
A First Look at the Future of Ellisland
Fri, 13th Feb 2026
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Today we have shared our vision for the restoration of Ellisland with new images revealing our deliberately quiet and sensitive approach to conservation. Ellisland is where Burns wrote Auld Lang…