🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Baby changing
Car parking around the venue and town-centre parking nearby, per the operator's visitor page.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Dick Institute is a Victorian-era cultural building in Kilmarnock that combines a museum, a contemporary art gallery and East Ayrshire's central library under one roof. Families can explore the North Museum, which has natural history and archaeology displays including a dinosaur, a whale jawbone and a fossil scorpion, and the South Museum and Loom Room, which tell the story of the town's industries and social history. The Young People's Gallery shows work by local young people, and the ground-floor children's library and regular Bookbug sessions give younger visitors something to do as well. Major touring exhibitions appear here several times a year, often with a family-friendly theme. A tearoom serves coffee and cakes, so a visit can be a relaxed half-day in the town centre.
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.
- Tissues
- Audiobook or story CD
- Hair bobbles
- Portable phone charger
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Bum bag
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