The Dick Institute is a public library, museum and art gallery situated in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, in the west coast of Scotland.

The funds which were required to build the institute were provided by James Dick, who lived in Australia but was born in 1823, in Soulis Street, Kilmarnock.

Previous major exhibitions have included Miffy, Quentin Blake, Wallace and Gromit, Cutting Edge, Radical Nature and Bill Viola.

Notable exhibitions to have been displayed at the Dick Institute in the Main Gallery include Quentin Blake, Gerhard Richter, Michael Morpurgo, Bricktropolis (Lego), Miffy and Wallace and Gromit.

[8] The museum galleries within the Dick Institute showcase semi-permanent exhibitions which are culturally and historically significant to East Ayrshire.