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Jan
25
The Rosenbach Presents | Burns Night | In-Person
Raise a glass to the Bard of Ayrshire, Robert Burns, with an evening of raucous readings of poems and songs. Join us for a celebration featuring music, poetry, and a scotch tasting. There will be haggis!
Jul
16
Behind the Bookcase Tour | Remembering Scotland’s Bard: The Music, Myth & Memory of Robert Burns | In-Person
The Rosenbach Museum & Library holds one of the world’s most significant collections of Burns letters, literary manuscripts, rare books, and artifacts. In this special, hands-on Behind the Bookcase tour, timed to coincide with the 229th anniversary of Burns’s death on July 21, we will consider enshrinements of Burns and in Burns’s literary works. Even as the poet celebrates life, his work is shot through with meditations on death.