Gracefield Arts Centre

Dumfries / Reino Unido

Gracefield Arts Centre is located in Dumfries. The gallery's main building, a Category B listed building, was bought in 1951 by a committee of local people who raised the money needed for the purchase and to do the alterations necessary to change the former house, which was known as ‘Gracefield’ into an art gallery.The gallery houses a collection of over 600 Scottish paintings which include paintings by the Scottish Colourists, the Glasgow Boys, the Kirkcudbright School and the Edinburgh School, as well as contemporary Scottish works of art by the likes of Joan Eardley and Andy Goldsworthy. The gallery hosts a changing programme of contemporary exhibitions featuring regional, national and international artists and craftmakers. A wide range of art and craft activities for adults and children run throughout the year at the gallery.

Dumfries Museum

Dumfries / Reino Unido

Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in Dumfries & Galloway, is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era. The museum also has the world's oldest working Camera Obscura. Admission is free, however a small fee applies for the Camera Obscura.

Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries / Reino Unido

A Área de Conselho de Dumfries and Galloway , é uma das 32 novas subdivisões administrativas da Escócia, criada em 1996. Faz fronteira com South Ayrshire e East Ayrshire a noroeste, South Lanarkshire e Scottish Borders a norte e com o Condado de Cumbria ao sul, na Inglaterra. É, também, banhado ao norte pelo Solway Firth e ao leste pela Mar da Irlanda. Em 1975, com a abolição dos antigos condados, foi criado a região de Dumfries and Galloway mediante a fusão dos condados de Wigtownshire, Kirkcudbrightshire e Dumfriesshire. A reião foi, por sua vez, subdividida nos distritos de Wigtownshire, Stewartry, Nithsdale and Annandale e Eskdale. Em 1996, as regiões foram abolidas e esta região tornou-se uma unidade autoritária com a mesma área da antia região de mesmo nome.