Robert Burns' Ellisland Museum and Farm

About Robert Burns' Ellisland Museum and Farm

Robert Burns and his family lived at Ellisland Farm, just a few miles north of Dumfries, for three years and it was here he wrote perhaps his most famous work, Auld Lang Syne. Today’s visitors can see the farmhouse he built and gain insight into what living in the late 1700s would have been like for his family. Surrounded by the natural beauty of the countryside, Burns was inspired while walking along a path on the farm and wrote Tam o Shanter in just one day.