Ghostly Echoes at The Crichton: Final Crypt Tour of 2025
As winter settles over Dumfries and the year winds to a close, the award-winning Mostly Ghostly team are preparing to deliver their final Crichton Crypt Tour of 2025 on Tuesday 16th December.
The Crichton Trust’s Heritage Strategy – Consultation
The Crichton’s Heritage strategy seeks to preserve and promote the cultural legacy of The Crichton RoyalInstitution (CRI), highlighting its tangible and intangible assets in creative ways. We acknowledge the positive…
The Crichton Women on International Women’s Day
In the background of this photograph, taken at a Crichton Christmas party, there are several significant women, hidden within the larger group. Behind the flowers, and sitting to the left…
William A.F. Browne on Music, Health and Wellbeing
William A.F. Browne, who was Medical Superintendent at the Crichton between 1838 and 1857, wrote extensively about his practice and his views about appropriate treatments for psychiatry. Many of these…
Patient and Staff Concerts at The Crichton
One of the most important innovations during the early years of the Crichton Institution was its introduction of concerts organised and performed by patients and staff. Performers were drawn from…
Music at The Crichton
The Crichton Royal Institution supported a vibrant music life, including concerts, musical plays and, from the mid-nineteenth-century, a choir and band. Much of this activity is also recorded at lunatic…
