List of Robert Burns memorials
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This is a list of over sixty known memorials (statues, busts, fountains, buildings and street names) to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Of these, the oldest outdoor statue is given to be at Camperdown, Victoria, Australia (1830).
Scotland
Aberdeen – statue near Union Terrace Gardens
Alloway – monument a short distance from his birthplace. A Greco-Roman bust by Patrick Park stands within the monument, presented in 1847.
Arbroath – statue by Dundee sculptor Scott Sutherland in the grounds of Arbroath Library. Sutherland may be better known for his work of the Commando Memorial.
Ayr – statue in Burns Statue Square. Seated statue of Robert Burns and his dog Luath. To mark the opening of the central shopping centre in 2006. Artist David Annand was selected to create a sculpture out of steel and bronze, based on Burns' poem 'The Twa Dogs.'
Bathgate – statue of Rabbie Burns with Highland Mary in grounds of Partnership Centre.
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