National Museum of Costume

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The National Museum of Costume was located at Shambellie House, in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and it formed part of the National Museums of Scotland. The museum allowed a look at fashion and the lifestyle of the wealthy from the 1850s to the 1950s. The clothes were presented in lifelike room settings. In January 2013, National Museums Scotland announced that the National Museum of Costume was to close and the site would not reopen for 2013. ()

Coordinates: 54°58'60"N, 3°37'33"W

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National Museum of Costume – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Caerlaverock Castle, Sweetheart Abbey, Curriestanes cursus, Criffel.

4.1 miE
Unique triangular medieval fortress
Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries
104 min walk • Caerlaverock Castle is a moated triangular castle first built in the 13th century. It is located on the southern coast of Scotland, eleven kilometres south of Dumfries, on the edge of the Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve.
~1840 ftSE
Ruins, Historical place, Architecture
Sweetheart Abbey, Dumfries
9 min walk • The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey, was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1275 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 miles south of Dumfries.
5.3 miN
Archaeological site
Curriestanes cursus, Dumfries
136 min walk • Curriestanes cursus is a large neolithic ditched enclosure on the outskirts of Dumfries, in the parish of Troqueer, Dumfries and Galloway. It is visible only from aerial photography. It is, along with Pict's Knowe, one of two scheduled monuments in Troqueer parish.
3 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Criffel
76 min walk • Criffel is a hill in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is 570 m high but appears higher because of its great isolation and high prominence.
5.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lochrutton Loch
141 min walk • Lochrutton Loch is a large, lowland freshwater loch that lies to the west of Dumfries, Scotland. The loch trends from north to south and is 0.75 mi long and 0.5 mi at its widest point. It has an average depth of 13 ft and is 58 ft at its deepest. The loch was surveyed on 1 May 1905 by James Murray and L. W.
3.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lochaber Loch
86 min walk • Lochaber Loch is a small, lowland freshwater loch that lies among steep-sided hills, approximately 4.5 mi to the west of Dumfries, Scotland. The loch is somewhat triangular in shape and is 0.5 mi long and 0.25 mi at its widest point. It has an average depth of 20.5 ft and is 55 ft at its deepest.
5.4 miSW
Forts and castles
Auchenskeoch Castle
139 min walk • Auchenskeoch Tower is a 17th-century tower house situated in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is near Dalbeattie in the civil parish of Colvend and Southwick, in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire.
0.8 miE
Forts and castles
Abbot's Tower
21 min walk • Abbot's Tower is a late-16th-century tower house situated near New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, that was built by the Abbot of Sweetheart Abbey.