Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

Robert Burns Birthplace Museum Review

Besides being a poet of delicacy and depth, Robert Burns was also a rebel, a thinker, a lover, a good companion, and a man of the countryside. This wonderful new museum, opened in 2011, explains why the Scots so admire this complex "man o' pairts." The imaginative museum presents each of his poems in context, with commentaries sensitively written in a moderrn version of the Scots language in which he spoke and wrote. Headsets let you hear the poems sung or spoken. The exhibit is vibrant and interactive, with touch screens that allow you to debate his views on politics, love, taxation, revolution, and Scottishness. An elegant café offers a place to pause, while the kids can play in the adjoining garden.