Heritage

Museums, archives and heritage

The Nelson Monument on Calton Hill has been bathed in emerald light to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
Approval has been granted for an overgrown patch of the New Town to be coverted into community allotments. A…
The old Odeon Cinema on Clerk Street has been boarded up for years. Campaigners say it should be, and it can…
Heritage body Historic Scotland is holding a special Spring promotion with 5,000 half-price tickets to…
A new exhibition entitled The Artist Up Close will bring together a range of 32 portrait works of some of…
Waverley Station’s Princes Street entrance will be closed from the beginning of next month as £â€¦
Historic Scotland is offering free entrance to many of its sites in the run up to St Andrew's Day. For the…
HRH The Princess Royal is heading to the port of Leith today to unveil a new monument to Scotland's Merchant…
The reviews are in for Burke and Hare, the black comedy from John Landis, the veteran director of The Blues…
It's a perennial problem when you're standing 24/7, 365 days a year outside in the elements. Pigeon droppings…
The statue of Charles II in Parliament Square in Edinburgh Old Town was taken away yesterday for a £57,395…
Museums Galleries Scotland have announced that a museum collection which tells the story of the Scottish…
Historian James Robertson looks at how Edinburgh earned its reputation as "City of Enlightenment" and "Athens…
An award-winning Edinburgh novelist and Japanese POW camp survivor is the latest author to be commemorated at…
The Knights of Royal England return to Linlithgow Palace with their show of horsemanship and weaponry skills…
Annual open days on the Isle of May National Nature Reserve (NNR). The day is free and a privately operated…
Community orientated festival that celebrates the history and heritage of the Edinburgh Old Town in…
Historic Scotland have released a computer generated image of a medieval knight whose skeleton was discovered…
An annual shoot by the Royal Company of Archers, the queen's bodyguard. The Musselburgh Arrow is the oldest "…
Around forty Scottish museums and galleries, from Orkney to Dumfries, come together for this annual weekend…