Reopened in September 2006, the HBOS Museum on the Mound is one of only three banking museums in the UK. Showcasing a unique collection of artefacts and memorabilia, it has a...

The house was refurbished in 2004 with funding from the National lottery and exhibitions taking place in the gallery space often make reference to the natural world. Inverleith...

Kinlock Anderson may be the city's most renowned kiltmaker, although it's far from the cheapest. The shop includes a small tartan museum.

The extensive collection of toys and childhood mementos stretches back decades, to when lead soldiers and china-headed dolls were state-of-the-art toys, but also runs through...

While the People's Story across the road is a tribute to hardship and to Edinburgh's redoubtable working class folk, the Museum of Edinburgh is a shrine to the burgesses and...

The museum, previously known as the Museum of Scotland before merging with the Royal Museum, was judged to be the Scottish Building of the Year after its opening in 1998....

Edinburgh has a wealth of institutions serving the visual arts, but perhaps none is quite as grand as the National Gallery of Scotland. The gallery boasts excellent collections...

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...

The Royal Museum is in the throes of a Herculean reinvention (due to finish in 2011) and now forms part of the National Museum of Scotland. The beautifully airy main hall, with...

William Playfair's vast building is effectively a large-scale temporary exhibition space, supplementing big-ticket blockbusters of the likes of Monet and Titian with shows...

Occupying a building designed in the 1820s as an institution for fatherless children, the permanent collection features numerous well-established artists, with a strong showing...

Through the unassuming doorway and past a bright café selling organic and homemade food, a light, airy space holds a free permanent exhibition entitled 'Scotland's Stories'....

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...