Editing Dumfries (section)

===Museums, parks and libraries===
Located on top of a small hill, [[Dumfries Museum]] is centred on the 18th-century windmill which stands above the town. Included are fossil footprints left by prehistoric reptiles, the wildlife of the Solway marshes, tools and weapons of the earliest peoples of the region and stone carvings of Scotland's first Christians. On the top floor of the museum is a [[camera obscura]].<ref name=autogenerated3 />

Based in the [[control tower]] near Tinwald Downs, the aviation museum has an extensive indoor display of memorabilia, much of which has come via various recovery activities. During the second world war, aerial navigation was taught at Dumfries also at [[Wigtown]] and nearby [[Annan, Dumfries and Galloway|Annan]] was a fighter training unit. [[RAF Dumfries]] doubled as an important maintenance unit and aircraft storage unit. The museum is run by the [[Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum|Dumfries and Galloway Aviation]] Group and is the only private aviation museum in Scotland.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite web |date=1 August 1999 |title=Dumfries and Galloway Museums |url=http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/ |access-date=24 August 2011 |publisher=Dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk |archive-date=22 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222132412/http://www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The restored control tower of the former World War II [[airfield]] is now a listed building. The museum is run by volunteers and houses a large and ever expanding [[aircraft]] collection, aero engines and a display of artefacts and personal histories relating to aviation, past and present. It is also home to the [[Loch Doon]] [[Spitfire]]. Both [[civil aviation]] and [[military aviation]] are represented.<ref name="Dumfriesaviationmuseum.com" />

[[File:Ewart Library entrance.jpg|thumb|left|Entrance to the Ewart Library]]

The Ewart Library is a [[Carnegie library]], and was opened in 1904. Carnegie donated £10,000 toward the building of the library, and suggested that it was named after William Ewart, former MP for the area, and who was key in the introduction of acts of Parliament in both England and Scotland related to the creation of public libraries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edwardian Renaissance Architecture in Scotland |url=http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/renaiss.htm |access-date=2019-07-27 |website=www.scotcities.com |archive-date=10 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910163352/http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/renaiss.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The most significant of the parks in Dumfries are all within walking distance of the town centre:-
* Dock Park – located on the East bank of the Nith just to the South of St Michael's Bridge
* Castledykes Park – as the name suggests on the site of a former castle
* Mill Green (also known as deer park, although the deer formerly accommodated there have since been relocated) – on the West bank of the Nith opposite Whitesands
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