📌 Old Town, City of Edinburgh
★★★★
The Surgeons’ Hall Museums on the south side of Edinburgh‘s Old Town have roots stretching back to 1505. This collection of bone and tissue specimens began life as a teaching resource for local medical students, finally opening to the public in 1832. Grisly bodily curiosities aren’t to every taste, but a major redevelopment in 2014 transformed the museum into a relatively major attraction, and I reckon it’s now one of the capital’s better museums. Galleries spread across four levels, encompassing the history of surgery, one of the UK’s biggest pathology collections, dental collection and a modern “body voyager” gallery exploring the use of robotics in surgery. Photography is not permitted.
🌍 Location
📌 Nicolson Street, 10-min walk south of Edinburgh Waverley station
🧭 O.S Grid Reference: NT 261733
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.946749,-3.184695
🚌 Local buses | 🚆 Edinburgh Waverley (0.5 mi) | 🚋 St Andrew Square (0.5 mi)
🚗 Street parking nearby (charge)
📝 Key info
⌚ Daily
🎫 £9.50 adult / £5 child
