Dick Institute

The Dick Institute is a museum in Kilmarnock, Scotland. It is a vital social setting in the south-west of Scotland, including the biggest exhibition hall and workmanship display space in Ayrshire and in addition East Ayrshire's focal library. The Dick Institute was opened in 1901. The assets which were required to construct the Institute were given by James Dick, who lived in Australia however was conceived, in 1823, in Soulis Street, Kilmarnock. The building was seriously harmed by flame just eight years after it opened.

A portion of the exhibition hall's accumulations were lost in the fire yet it revived in 1911 and was utilized as an assistant healing center in 1917 amid World War I. The Dick Institute has a program that incorporates broadly essential presentations, perpetual showcases of the historical center's own accumulations and work by contemporary craftsmen, movie producers and youngsters from the zone, giving the Dick Institute a developing notoriety for the quality and extent of its displays and occasions. Past significant shows have included Miffy, Quentin Blake, Wallace and Gromit, Cutting Edge, Radical Nature and Bill Viola.