The Brass Rubbing Centre is housed in an atmospheric location: the apse that is the only surviving remnant of the Gothic Trinity College Church, founded in 1460. The centre...

The 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. Major landmarks are pointed out...

The headquarters of Edinburgh's library service was built in 1870 and today houses the Edinburgh Room, the Scottish Department, and reference, fiction and lending libraries....

Behind the extensive tartan-stacked shop, visitors can see the various processes that go into producing Scotland's national dress. Experienced workers attend the noisy working...

Built in 1550 and extensively rebuilt 70 years later by Merchant Burgess Thomas Gledstanes (an ancestor of prime minister William Gladstone), Gladstone's Land is a typical...

Formerly the site of a Franciscan friary, Greyfriars dates back to 1620. The west end of the church was red-uced to ruins in 1718, however, after the local council's nearby...

There has been a church on the site of St Giles since 854. Nothing remains of the earliest structures, but the four pillars that surround the Holy Table in the centre have...

The Grade A-listed Tolbooth St John's Kirk started life as the Victoria Hall for the Established Church General Assembly in 1844, following the religious 'Disruption' of the...

Built between 1541 and 1547 (the steeple was added in 1626), Magdalen Chapel is the headquarters of the Scottish Reformation Society. The chapel held the first congregation of...

Founded as recently as 1925 (its functions were previously fulfilled by the Faculty of Advocates Library at Parliament House), the NLS is one of the UK's deposit libraries,...

Our Dynamic Earth is located near the former home of Edinburgh-born James Hutton, the so-called 'Father of Geology'. It's anyone's guess what he'd make of its ultra-modern,...

The Palace of Holyroodhouse has its origins in the Abbey of Holyrood (now picturesque ruins), established in 1128 by David I. When Edinburgh was confirmed as the nation's...

With Edinburgh's Tolbooth long since consigned to the annals of history, the Canongate Tolbooth is one of the most emotionally resonant buildings in the Old Town. It's where...

You name it, Edinburgh has a museum for it. Staffed by friendly coppers (indeed, it's a working police office), this small room has information on almost every aspect of...