Museums

The Surgeon's Hall, part of the Royal College of Surgeons complex on Clerk Street, houses Scotland's largest medical museum with one of the most significant surgical collections in the world.

Historic Edinburgh City Council owned property in the Old Town which was built in 1633 for Sir Archibald Acheson, Secretary of State for King Charles I.

Find out about a century of style as you follow fashion from the Victorian era to the 20th century.

Opening Times

Daily: 10:00-17:00 April-Oct

The National Museum of Scotland re-opened on 29th July 2011, following a £47.4 million refurbishment of the Victorian building.

Working passenger steam trainline, not far from Edinburgh, that is run by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. Since Bo'ness station opened in 1981, the line has been gradually extended and stations built by the volunteer-led Society as a showcase of traditional steam rail travel. Railway buildings and infrastructure capture the setting of an earlier era in train travel. The train runs along the shores of the Forth, across the Avon Viaduct.

Indoor gothic theme park, very near Waverley Station, that promises "500 years of Edinburgh's darkest and most gory history, 11 actor led shows and 2 scary rides

At its height, in the 19th century, Edinburgh's brewing industry comprised of some 40 or so breweries.

The National Library of Scotland is also known as the copyright or legal deposit library in the UK, and is one of the main research libraries in Europe.

A six story tenement building on the High Street, which has been purchased and renovated by the National Trust of Scotland, to offer a taste of life in 17th century Edinburgh.

Built in 1796 by Thomas Russell to a design by celebrated Edinburgh New Town architect Robert Adam, this is another good example of a typical Georgian Edinburgh neo-classical interior.

Free museum aimed at adults and children the Museum of Childhood brings together anitque toys, dolls, teddy bears, trainsets, trcicylces, and games from many parts of the world to tell the story&nb

The Glasgow Science Centre has a planetarium, an IMAX theatre for watching those latest large-format 3D films, and three floors of science exhibitions.

Exhibition inside Edinburgh Castle showing how the last 400 years of the Scottish military experience has shaped the nation, including paintings, documents, photographs, medals, diaries, silver, and the weapons of war (swords, firearms, bullets and bayonets).

East Fortune airfield saw action in two world wars. It now brings the story of aviation from the First World War to the present day through exhibitions inside and outside the airfield's hangars.

The Museum of Edinburgh is a series of interconnected 16th and 17th century buildings situated on the Royal Mile in the heart of Edinburgh Old Town.

Formerly known as Huntly House, the museum specialises in the history of Edinburgh from the earliest settlement to the present day.

As the name suggests, this New Town building, run by the National Trust of Scotland as a public museum, has been carefully restored as a typical Georgian House of the late 18th-early 19th century. This includes furniture, porcelain, silver and glass that reflect the New Town lifestyle of the time.

The Edinburgh area used to be dotted with coal mines. Many of these were shut down in the era of Margaret Thatcher following the longest-strike - the miners's strike - in UK history.

The Royal College of Surgeon's is one of the oldest surgical corporations in the world, in existence as a corporate body since 1505.

Tucked away in Lady Stairs Close, up a narrow staircase entered half-way up the Mound, in Edinburgh Old Town, you will find the Edinburgh Writers' Museum.

The 300-plus year-old Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) building is home to a Scottish professional organisation that now has 10,000 fellows, members, associates and affiliates in 86