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The Ancient Cathedral City of Brechin is in Angus, Scotland.

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The Town House has come full circle and is again a focus for Brechin's future. In its present role as  Brechin Town House Museum, we will look forward to developing the whole building to include an exhibitions venue and to expand the museum displays. It will include the former jail cells, one of which will be transformed into a Scriptorium recalling Brechin's importance to mediaeval Scotland; the other will become a diorama depicting the fate of the Town House's last prisoner. An exhibition room will house a permanent exhibition of one of Brechin's most illustrious sons, David Waterson, a painter and etcher of note from the early part of the 20th Century, who, though much admired by his peers in Edinburgh and London and who numbered the King of Sweden among his patrons, chose to live and work in Brechin throughout his lifetime. The refurbished museum  officially opened on the 30th August 2010.