JM Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan house’ to open as children’s storytelling hub in Scotland

Barrie, who penned iconic tale of the boy who never grew up, saw Moat Brae as ‘enchanted’

The Georgian villa and terraced gardens in Dumfries where author JM Barrie played as a child, and which later inspired his best-loved work Peter Pan, will reopen this Saturday as Scotland’s first national centre for children’s literature and storytelling.

With a full-scale pirate ship, a mermaid lagoon and a Lost Boys’ treehouse, the modern-day Neverland at Moat Brae House is the result of an £8.5m, eight-year restoration project and the embodiment of a pledge to make storytelling an integral part of growing up in Scotland.

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