The History of Gypsy Roma Travellers in Dumfries & Galloway

Join Museum Curator, Judith Hewitt, as she talk’s about the latest exhibition in Dumfries Museum:

On 4th February, Andrew Kennedy died in The Crichton Hospital. He had been in the institution for several years receiving treatment following a mental collapse.

He could not bear to be inside, claiming that he could not sleep behind a locked door. Andrew was the ‘last of the Kennedy’s’, a long-established Dumfries and Galloway Tinkler Gypsy family.

Learn more about this hidden history – the culture of Gypsy Roma Travellers in our region alongside their persecution.

Free to attend, no need to book.