AIM_size_designation Small Museum (up to 20,000 visitors p.a.)
Accreditation Unaccredited
Admin_hierarchy /Scotland/Dumfries and Galloway (Scottish Council Area)
Deprivation_index 6
Deprivation_index_crime 5
Deprivation_index_education 6
Deprivation_index_employment 7
Deprivation_index_health 8
Deprivation_index_housing 9
Deprivation_index_income 8
Deprivation_index_services 1
Geodemographic_group Scottish Countryside
Geodemographic_group_code 3cr
Geodemographic_group_name_long 3cr-Scottish Countryside
Geodemographic_subgroup Scottish Countryside
Geodemographic_subgroup_code 3c1r
Geodemographic_subgroup_name_long 3c1r-Scottish Countryside
Geodemographic_supergroup Countryside Living
Geodemographic_supergroup_code 3r
Geodemographic_supergroup_name_long 3r-Countryside Living
Governance Independent-Private
Governance_source https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2021/11/new-owners-prevent-closure-of-worlds-first-savings-bank-museum/
Latitude 54.993173
Longitude -3.40857
Name_of_museum Savings Banks Museum
Notes Governance change. Plans were approved in December 2021 for the museum to be transferred to a limited company run by the new owners of Comlongon Castle, with which the museum was connected.
Notes_internal AIM entry is TSB Savings Banks Museum. Entry amended to reflect museum name.
Postcode DG1 4NN
Primary_provenance_of_data aim
Region_country Scotland
Size small
Size_prov ma(fam)
Subject_Matter Other
Town_or_City Ruthwell
Visitor_Numbers_Data 0:1141:2012:MA(fam)
Year_closed 9999:9999
Year_closed_source https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186513-d1957479-Reviews-Savings_Banks_Museum-Dumfries_Dumfries_and_Galloway_Scotland.html
Year_opened 1974:1974
Year_opened_source Garrard & Neale, 2008: 445
media 0
project_id mm.aim.1258