All Museums in Edinburgh
Museums to visit in Scotland
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 131 331 5545Queensferry Museum helps visitors to explore the past and traditions of historic Queensferry and neighbouring Dalmeny. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 131 529 4057The People’s Story explores the lives of Edinburgh’s ordinary people at work and play from the late 18th century to today. Visitors can see displays showing a bookbinder’s workshop, a wartime kitchen and much more, all packed with real objects. You can even see a former jail, an original part of this historic building. Read more...
- Save to ListA visit to Dynamic Earth is like nothing else on Earth. It’s a chance to experience the primeval forces of nature as they shaped our planet, to journey through space and time and even go on a 4DVENTURE around the world. You’ll be embarking on the interactive adventure of a lifetime – the lifetime of our planet. As if this Read more...
- Save to ListWithin the historic setting of Edinburgh Castle, accounts of battles lost and won are told through military artefacts and personal collections. Find out about the life of Scots at war, from the First World War trenches to the Home Front, and learn how conflicts, both at home and abroad, have shaped Scotland’s image and reputation over the centuries. Read more...
- Save to ListExplore the diversity of the natural world, world cultures, science and technology, art, design and fashion, and Scottish history, all under one roof. Read more...
- Save to ListLocated in the historic Bank of Scotland Head Office, this fascinating museum takes a fresh look at money – and much, much more. Art & design, technology, crime, trade and security – all feature in the story of money Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 131 529 4142Adults can indulge in a nostalgia-fest and children discover how their (not so) aged parents amused themselves as youngsters in a world before video games. There’s a wholesomeness to the construction kits and embroidery sets that once kept little fingers busy in a world that embraced the notion of “Improving Sunday Toys,” while train sets and dolls houses have enduring Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 131 556 9579John Knox House dates back to 1470, which makes it and Moubray House which is attached, the only original medieval building surviving on the Royal Mile. The house is associated with one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in Scottish History – The Scottish Reformation – which resulted in the outbreak of civil war and the abdication of Mary, Read more...