After a 2006 facelift, Clambers emerged as one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Edinburgh area. The new format includes dedicated areas for babies and toddlers, as...

Aquariums, a moving walkway and a feely fish pool, plus films, educational lectures and a café are on offer here. You can even learn to dive to PADI-accepted standards among...

The Edinburgh College of Art operates a year-round programme of exhibitions. For many, the highlight is the annual degree show in June, when the public can eye up (and, hope...

This lovely, informal spot has the usual farmyard favourites, plus a pet lodge (housing guinea pigs, rabbits, fish, tortoises and the like), a playground and a good café with...

You can zap them with laser fire and they can zap you back (as long as they're 3ft 6in or taller, that is), and you all go home in one piece afterwards.

Set in large, reasonably well-kept grounds on the way to Cramond, this 16th-century neo-Jacobean fortified property was built as a 1590s tower house for Sir Archibald Napier,...

Housed in an elaborate building that dates back to 1901, the old Portobello Baths have had a couple of facelifts in their century-plus lifespan. A Lottery grant in 1998 turned...

Here you can trace the history of medicine in the city from 1505, through to the development of modern surgical techniques. One of the real curios is a pocketbook covered with...