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- 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 ListStep back in time when you visit the former “HM Convict Prison, Peterhead” which officially opened in 1888 and now forms part of the Admiralty Gateway. Read more...
- Save to ListIn the stunning Great Garden, thousands of colourful annual bedding plants make up an elaborate summer spectacleThe adjoining Museum of Farming Life brings the agricultural past to life. Visitors can also enjoy woodland walks and a fascinating herb garden. It’s hard to imagine a garden today being planted on such an extravagant scale. The heart of the property is the Read more...
- 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 ListOn display are nearly 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe and from other continents. The instrumental history of the Orchestra, the Wind Band, Theatre, Dance, Popular Music, Brass Bands, etc is exemplified by the instruments on display, which include many beautiful examples of the instrument-maker’s art over the past 400 years. Part of Edinburgh Read more...
- Save to List“Convoys Remembered” is an online archive of stories contributed by veterans of the Arctic convoys and their relatives. Here you will find memories of the Allied effort to deliver vital supplies to Russia during the Second World War. The conditions were brutal and the route was perilous. The convoy vessels faced threats from enemy warships, submarines, and aircraft, not to Read more...
- Save to ListDiscover Sanquhar’s world famous knitting tradition and the story of the mines and miners of Sanquhar and Kirkconnel. explore how the ordinary people of Upper Nithsdale live and worked Read more...
- Save to ListThe SFRS Heritage Trust comprises of a group of dedicated volunteers who are pro active in the restoration, conservation and preservation of vintage fire engines, firefighting equipment and uniforms, as well as upholding the history and traditions of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Read more...
- Save to ListPhone: +44-0- 1294 278283The Scottish Maritime Museum is based in the west of Scotland,with sites in Irvine and Dumbarton. At these two sites, the Museum holds an important nationally recognised collection, encompassing a variety of historic ships, artefacts, shipbuilding machinery, machine tools, and fascinating personal items.Many of these exhibits can be found inside the Linthouse Building in Irvine, a unique Grade A listed, Read more...