Blackie House Library and Museum
Curiosity | Connections | Discovery
FOUND!
The Lost Portrait
of Robert Burns
Blackie House Library and Museum is a research centre and exhibition space of some 40,000 items. Housed in a 17th-century tenement in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town, the collection includes rare books and manuscripts, paintings, prints, sculpture and photography – along with antiquities, decorative objects, textiles, furniture and items from nature.
Raeburn’s Lost Portrait of Robert Burns
Find out more about the recent rediscovery of the Sir Henry Raeburn’s lost portrait of Robert Burns.
Garagespace
Our satellite space and Edinburgh Art Festival 2026 exhibition venue.
The Kilmarnock Burns on Tour
Now on display at the Writers’ Museum, Edinburgh to mark the 240th anniversary of the publication of one of Scotland’s most important books.
Face to Face: Imagining and Re-imagining Robert Burns
An exhibition of 200+ images of the Poet: paintings, prints, postcards, plates, sculptures, objets d’art and much more.
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By appointment
Featured Item
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Blackie House Library and Museum
Scottish Charity No. SC051891