Sights in Kirkcudbright
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Tolbooth Art Centre
As well as catering for today's local artists, this centre has an exhibition on the history of the town's artistic development. The place is as interesting for the building itself as for the artistic works on display; it's one of the oldest and best-preserved tollbooths in Scotland, and there are interpretative signboards to explain its past. Reduced hours in winter.
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Broughton House
The 18th-century Broughton House displays paintings by EA Hornel (he lived and worked here), one of the Glasgow Boys. The library, with its wood panelling and stone carvings, is probably the most impressive room. Behind the house is a lovely Japanese-style garden (also open Monday to Friday in February and March).
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Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park
A mile from Kirkcudbright on the B727, this park is an easy walk from town, and you'll see red pandas, wolves, meerkats, monkeys, kangaroos, Scottish wildcats and many more creatures in a peaceful rural setting. An important role of the park is the conservation of rare and threatened species.
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MacLellan's Castle
Near the harbour, this is a large, atmospheric ruin built in 1577 by Thomas MacLellan, then provost of Kirkcudbright, as his town residence. Inside look for the 'lairds' lug', a 16th-century hidey-hole designed for the laird to eavesdrop on his guests.
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Stewartry Museum
There's a certain charm to this higgledy-piggledy old-fashioned local history museum. There's everything from coronation teacups to lumps of local granite to stuffed fish. Reduced hours in winter.
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