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Museums long ago ceased to be stuffy
rooms full of glass cases containing bits of old pottery
and fossilised bones.
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Today even most conventional museums including displays
which change but over recent years there has been a
growth in industrial and "living" museums.
Here you can
learn about local heritage, get a feel for how people
lived and worked, the hardships they endured...
Galleries listed include not just civic
galleries displaying publicly owned artworks, but also
privately owned galleries with items for sale.
Not all the
museums and galleries in the Edinburgh area are listed.
Please provide details of any we have missed here.
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CITY ART CENTRE
2 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DE
Tel: 0131 529 3993
Web:
www.cac.org.uk
Open: Mon - Sat
10am - 5pm. Sundays during August only 12noon -
5pm. Admission free (a charge might apply for
occasional exhibitions).
The scale and range of the
programme has made the gallery one of Britain's
most visited exhibition centres. The City's fine
art collection consists of around 3,500 works of
Scottish art: paintings, watercolours, drawings,
prints, photographs, sculpture and tapestries,
including works by McTaggart, Fergusson, Peploe
and Eardley. Exhibitions drawn from the
collection are a regular feature of the City Art
Centre's programme. The City Art Centre's
licensed cafe can provide you with a cup of tea
or coffee, or a three-course meal. See our
website.
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DEAN GALLERY
73 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH4 3DS
Tel: 0131 624 6200 Fax:
0131 623 7126
E-mail:
deaninfo@nationalgalleries.org
Extensive collection of Dada and Surrealist art,
including works by Dali, Ernst, Magritte, Man
Ray and Miro. Home to modern and contemporary
exhibitions as well as a large collection of
works by Paolozzi. Spectacular city views and
beautiful sculpture park.
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MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD
42 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TG
Tel: 0131 529 4142
Web:
www.cac.org.uk
Open: Mon - Sat
10am - 5pm, Sun 12noon - 5pm. Admission free.
Described as the 'noisiest
museum in the world', the Museum of Childhood is
a favourite with adults and children alike. It
is a treasure house, crammed full of objects
telling of childhood, past and present.
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FRUITMARKET GALLERY
45 Market Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH1 1DF
Tel: 0131 225 2383 Fax:
0131 220 3130
E-mail:
info@fruitmarket.co.uk
Web:
www.fruitmarket.co.uk
The Fruitmarket Gallery is Scotland’s flagship
contemporary visual art venue. It is the only
Gallery of its size in Scotland devoted solely
to exhibitions of contemporary art, with a
supporting education and interpretation
programme and a commitment to presenting high
quality exhibitions by the world’s most
important artists. The Fruitmarket Gallery is
committed to exhibiting contemporary art of the
highest quality, bringing the work of artists
with both emerging and established reputations
to Scotland and presenting the work of Scottish
artists in an international context. It has a
contemporary culture bookshop and a café which
offers superb freshly prepared dishes,
home-baked cakes and award-winning speciality
coffees. The Gallery is free to get in and is
open seven days a week.
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NEWHAVEN HERITAGE MUSEUM
Pier Place, Edinburgh, EH6 4LP
Tel: 0131 551 4165
Web:
www.cac.org.uk
Open: Mon - Sun,
12noon - 4.45pm. Admission free. Last admission 30
minutes before closing.
Newhaven Heritage Museum is
situated in the historic fishmarket, overlooking
the picturesque Newhaven Harbour. The story of
the village and its people is told through
reconstructed sets of fishwives and fishermen,
historic objects and photographs, and firsthand
accounts of people's lives.
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NATIONAL GALLERY
The Mound, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH2 2EL
Tel: 0131 624 6200 Fax:
0131 343 3250
The National Gallery of Scotland, oldest of the
five Galleries, is situated in the heart of
Edinburgh on The Mound, between the ancient Old
Town and the Georgian New Town. It is home to
Scotland's greatest collection of European
paintings and sculpture from the Renaissance to
Post-Impressionism, and is one of the very
finest galleries of its size in the world.
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THE PEOPLES STORY MUSEUM
163 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8BN
Tel: 0131 529 4057
Web:
www.cac.org.uk
Open: Mon - Sat,
10am - 5pm. Sundays in August only 12noon - 5pm.
Admission free.
Housed in the late 16th
century Canongate Tollbooth, opposite Huntly
House, 'The People's Story' is a museum with a
difference. It uses oral history, reminiscence
and written sources to tell the story of the
lives, work and leisure of the ordinary people
of Edinburgh, from the late 18th century to the
present day.
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY
OF MODERN ART
75 Belford Road, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH4 3DR
Tel: 0131 624 6200 Fax:
0131 343 3250
When the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
opened in 1960, it inherited a small number of
20th century works from the National Gallery of
Scotland, but the majority of the collection has
been acquired over the last forty years. The
collection now comprises more than 5,000 items,
ranging in date from the late 19th century to
the present and encompasses work in a wide
variety of media, from paintings, bronzes and
works on paper, to kinetic sculpture and video
installations. Highlights of the collection
include early 20th century French paintings by
Bonnard, Vuillard, Derain and Matisse; Cubist
work by Braque, Léger and Picasso; early 20th
century Russian art, including oils by Larionov
and Goncharova; and a superb collection of
Expressionist art, with works by Barlach,
Kirchner, Kokoschka and Nolde.
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THE WRITERS' MUSEUM & HAKERS'
COURT
Lady Stair's House, Lady Stair's Close,
Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, EH1 2PA
Tel: 0131 529 4901
Web:
www.cac.org.uk
Open: Mon - Sat,
10am - 5pm. Sundays in August only 12noon - 5pm.
Admission free.
Situated in Lady Stair's
House, built in 1622, The Writers' Museum is
dedicated to the lives and work of Scotland's
great literary figures, in particular Robert
Burns (1759-1796), Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
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SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT
GALLERY
1 Queen Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH2 1JD
Tel: 0131 624 6200 Fax:
0131 343 3250
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is
situated in the heart of the New Town at the
east end of Queen Street. It provides a unique
visual history of Scotland, told through
portraits of the figures who shaped it: royals
and rebels, poets and philosophers, heroes and
villains. All the portraits are of Scots, but
not all are by Scots. The collection also
contains works by great English, European and
American masters such as Van Dyck, Gainsborough,
Copley, Thorvaldsen, Rodin and Kokoschka, as
well as works by Ramsay, Raeburn and many other
Scottish artists.
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QUEENSFERRY MUSEUM
53 High Street, South Queensferry
Tel: 0131 331 5545
Web:
www.cac.org.uk
Open:
Mon/Thur/Fri/Sat from 10am-1pm & 2.15pm-5pm,
Closed Tues & Wed, Sun from12noon-5pm. Admission
free. Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Last admission 30 minutes
before closing. Situated in the historic formal
royal burgh of Queensferry, the museum commands
magnificent views of the two great bridges
spanning the Forth. Its collections trace the
history of the people of Queensferry and
Dalmeny, the historic ferry passage to Fife, the
buildings of the road & rail bridges and the
wildlife of the Forth estuary.
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STILLS LTD
23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH1
1BP
Tel: 0131 622 6200
E-mail:
info@stills.org
Web:
www.stills.org
Established in 1977 as Edinburgh’s specialist
photographic centre, STILLS is now recognised as
one of Scotland’s leading centres for research,
production and exhibition of contemporary art
inspired by existing and emerging technologies.
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THE MUSEUM OF EDINBURGH
142 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Tel: 0131 529 4143
Web:
www.cac.org.uk
Open: Mon-Sat
10am-5pm. Sundays in August only 12noon - 5pm.
Admission free.
The Museum of Edinburgh is
home to important collections relating to the
history of Edinburgh, from prehistoric times to
the present day. If you know the story of
'Greyfriars Bobby', you will be thrilled to see
his collar and feeding bowl, and the original
plaster model for the bronze statue in
Candlemaker Row. The museum also features
Edinburgh silver and glass, and a colourful
collection of shop signs.
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THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON
GUARDS MUSEUM
The Castle, Edinburgh, EH1 2YT
Tel: 0131 220 4387
E-mail:
homehq@scotsdg.org.uk
Web:
www.scotsdgmuseum.com
Open: Daily 9.30am-5.15pm Apr to Oct,
9.30am-4.15pm Nov to Mar.
Military Museum (with shop). Over 320 years of
history and tradition of Scotland's Cavalry
Regiment, including Royal Scots Greys and 3rd
Carabiniers. Uniforms, medals, pictures, silver
and flags, complemented by landscapes and
interactive displays and models of military
action and cavalrymen. Archives and Tours
available by request.
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3D Loch Ness Experience
192B The High Street,
Royal Mile, Edinburgh, EH1 1RE
Tel: 0131 225 2290 Fax:
0131 225 2291
E-mail:
info@lochnessdiscovery.com
Web:
www.3dlochness.com
The Secret of Loch Ness in Stereo 3D. Your
chance to learn about the real environment of
Loch Ness and to investigate the legend of
Nessie. What is the evidence? What are the
problems? Could it be true? 1000 Eyewitness
Accounts, Photographs, Hoaxes, Illusions, Facts
and Figures, Ecology, History & Mystery & Much
More. Suitable for all ages and great fun for
all the family. Visit The Nessie Shop Souvenirs,
Gifts and Quality Merchandise. Open all year.
Narrated in five languages. Designed & Presented
by Naturalist Adrian Shine Leader of the Loch
Ness Project. Journey over the sunlit hills
above Loch Ness down into the abyss. Life is
sparse in the cold deep waters .... but not
absent!
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Talbot Rice Gallery
University of Edinburgh, Old College, South
Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL
Tel: 0131 650 2211 Fax:
0131 650 2213
E-mail:
info.talbotrice@ed.ac.uk
Georgian gallery exhibiting Edinburgh
University's collection of old master paintings
and bronzes. Also a contemporary gallery showing
up to seven exhibitions per year. Disabled
facilities include a lift to main floor of
gallery.
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Museum Of Flight
East Fortune Airfield, North Berwick, EH39 5LF
Tel: 01620 880308 Fax:
01620 880355
E-mail:
info@nms.ac.uk
Web:
www.nms.ac.uk
Scotland's national museum of aviation houses a
huge collection of aeroplanes and rockets in the
hangars of a World War II airfield. Come and
learn about the history of flight, from early
pioneers to space explorers.
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National War Museum of
Scotland
The Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH1 2NG
Tel: 0131 225 7534 Fax:
0131 225 3848
The National War Museum of Scotland explores the
Scottish experience of war and military service
over the last 400 years. The lives of many
thousands of Scots have been dominated by the
experience of war - the objects in the museum,
and the individuals and events to which they
relate, make this very clear. The museum also
reveals the extent to which war and military
service have influenced Scotland's history, its
sense of its own identity and its reputation
abroad.
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