The Solway Coast Discovery Centre is a free exhibition detailing over 10000 years of Solway Coast Heritage. It showcases the Solway Coast, describing its wildlife, heritage, landscape, communities and outlines historic and future perspectives.
During the 1950s, part of the former RAF Kingstown was re-activated and re-designated as RAF Carlisle, becoming home to No 14 Maintenance Unit, the RAF’s most northerly storage facility in England.
Solway Aviation Museum is home to a collection of aircraft, aviation artefacts and displays reflecting Britain’s position as a world leader in aircraft design and innovation at the dawn of the jet age.
Discover the remarkable story of the ‘Greatest Munitions Factory on Earth’ and the extraordinary lives of the Munitions Girls who worked there at The Devil’s Porridge Museum!
Centred around the control tower of the wartime RAF Dumfries, the museum houses a fascinating selection of aircraft, aero engines and personal histories built up over the last 40 years.
John Paul Jones Birthplace Museum features the original cottage on the Solway Coast where John Paul Jones, hero of the American Revolutionary War and founder of the US Navy was born in 1747.