The Wellwood Burns Centre and Museum is finally on the tourist map.

After several years pursuing the matter, director Bobby Haswell has finally managed to get the much-loved Irvine institution recognised as a tourist attraction - complete with its own road signage.

President of Irvine Burns Club Angus Middleton is pictured above at the new sign on Burns Street.

Wellwood was opened as the home of Irvine Burns Club by Sam K Gaw, the 141st president, back in 1967 after the property was gifted to them.

The museum celebrates Burns' time in Irvine, where he trained as a flaxdresser.

Flax dressing was dragging bundles of flax through the nails on a 'heckle' to separate the fibres to make linen.

When the 22-year-old Burns arrived in Irvine, it was one of Scotland's most important harbours and the flax trade was key to trade in the town. But the apprentice work was dusty and boring, and Burns was more interested in visiting the town's Templeton's bookshop in the High Street.

The chair where he sat in the shop now has pride of place in the Wellwood Museum.

And while Burns may have failed as an apprentice flaxdresser, his literary ambitions were enflamed and he left Irvine as an apprentice poet.

To find out more about Irvine Burns Club and the Museum, visit https://www.irvineburnsclub.org/