Dalbeattie Museum

📌 Dalbeattie, Dumfries & Galloway
★★

More places need a messy, old-fashioned museum like this one in Dalbeattie. A truly odd assortment of thousands of items, piled to the rafters on higgledy-piggledy shelves, and hardly an information board in sight. Don’t touch? Far from it – you’re actively encouraged to handle many of the exhibits, whether they’re old typewriters or a seat from the Glasgow trams. A few displays relate to local people – including the First Officer from the ill-fated Titanic – and local businesses, but many of the objects are from elsewhere in the Lowlands: an unpolished tribute to the last 100 years of the entire region.