Museums in Edinburgh
Thanks to the Surgeons Hall Museums, visitors can wander among jars of pickled and diseased body parts should they wish. Other specialist venues in Edinburgh look at Scottish writers, childhood, the city's social history or its Georgian heritage. Alternatively the comprehensive National Museum of Scotland time trips you from the country's Neolithic past to its high-tech present. A fantastic range of museums and exhibits can delight, educate, amuse or shock. Your choice.
People's Story
Museum dedicated to the history of the people of Edinburgh
With Edinburgh's Tolbooth long since consigned to history, the Canongate Tolbooth is one of the most resonant buildings in the city....
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National Museum of Scotland
Everything under one roof
The Royal Museum is a Victorian marvel but was certainly enhanced in 1998 when the modern Museum of Scotland was built adjacent....
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Georgian House
Elegant late 18th century Georgian Town House
When John Lamont, the 18th Chief of Clan Lamont, bought the Georgian House in 1796, it cost him the princely sum of £1,600 (around £200,000 in today's money)....
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Camera Obscura
Created by the optician Maria Short in the 1850s
Camera Obscura is a system of mirrors that projects a periscope image of the city on to a white disc in the centre of a small darkened room....
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Trinity House, Leith
A tangible monument to Leith's rich maritime past
The original Trinity House was built in 1555 as the Hospital for the Fraternity of Masters & Mariners of Leith....
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Surgeons Hall
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
This series of collections formerly felt like an adjunct to the workings of the Royal College, but a 2005 rethink turned the Surgeons Hall Museums into a much more coherent and user-friendly experience....
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