🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryBooking requiredEducationalSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Parking
Parking on Eglinton Street or in a car park at the rear off East Road, per the venue's home page.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Wellwood is the home of Irvine Burns Club, founded in 1826 and one of the longest continuously active Burns clubs in the world. The museum occupies Wellwood House on Eglinton Street in Irvine and shows painted murals in the Burns Room, original manuscripts, early printed editions of the poems, paintings and an audio-visual presentation about Burns's time in Irvine. The building also holds a large library and a concert room. It suits older children with an interest in history, literature or local heritage. The club runs half-day visits for primary school pupils in January and February, a verse-speaking competition for local primary schools, and a set of Burns games aimed at younger visitors. Visits are arranged in advance, and the venue's own site offers a personal tour booking option.
Open afternoons only on the pattern given in hoursNote; school visits run in January and February.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Hand sanitiser
- Spare carrier bagFor the wet things. There are always wet things.
- Notebook
- I-spy book
- Lunch boxes
- Bum bag
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