The best specialized museums Edinburgh

This is a great place to discover whisky. Several tours are available, in 50 min, 90 min and 90 min + dinner. In addition to the guided tour, there are one or more commented tastings. You will learn to savour and identify the contents of your dram, the traditional whisky unit, in a room housing the world's largest private collection. No less than 3,400 different bottles are pampered there and it is a delight to walk through it to contemplate its old labels.

People have been coming here since 1835 to admire Edinburgh through the lorgnette of a periscope whose panoramas are projected onto a large table-screen. This visit is particularly popular with children, who appreciate the fun aspect. On six floors, a maze of attractions and exhibitions also provides a whole world of optical illusions and curiosities based on sounds, lights, mirrors and tunnels, for fans of the genre. At the top, the Outlook Tower also offers beautiful views of the surrounding area, including the castle, which is just across the street.

It is one of the must-see visits for lovers of religion and ancient books. In addition to the history of the house and its famous inhabitants - James Mosmann, royal jeweller, who made the Scottish crown; John Knox, father of the Scottish religion and key figure in history - it tells the story of the Humanities and first impressions. There is a collection of books by great humanists, a bible from 1521 and John Knox's History of the Reformation within the Realme of Scotland. The place also hosts the Scottish Storytelling Association.

A collection of toys, dolls, costumes and equipment provides a fun and educational insight into the lives of these children from the Victorian era... And the adults' eyes on them! We also talk about school, daily life, sports clubs, leisure and holidays. More recent objects, vintage, also play on the nostalgic fibre of visitors, children in the 1980s or 1990s.

This beautiful columned building dating from 1832 houses Scotland's largest museum of medical science. We owe his emergence to the architect William Playfair, also father of the National Gallery of Scotland, who was a great collector of utensils related to medicine. Surgical instruments, cabinet of curiosities, pathological specimens, odontological exhibition: the immersion in the history of the treatment and exploration of the human body is impressive.

L'info en + Petit Futé: The museum offers a guided walk on the theme "Blood and guts". It is an invitation to discover the history of medicine in Edinburgh on foot. It takes place every Saturday and Sunday at 2pm, departing from the museum. Your guide will introduce you to the medical history of Edinburgh, with its intrigues, rivalries and key discoveries. Walk in the footsteps of anatomists, surgeons and doctors, go where they worked, operated and conducted their medical research. This tour is an opportunity to soak up little-known accounts by iconic writers and frightening stories including chloroform teas, grave robbery and anecdotes about Britain's first serial killers, the infamous Burke and Hare. Visits are in English and, like the museum, are not recommended for sensitive souls.

The Writers' Museum packed its suitcases full of books in Lady Stair's House, a narrow medieval house in the Royal Mile (1622). It traces the lives of three famous Scottish writers: Robert Burns (1759-1796), Robert L. Stevenson (1850-1894), and Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Through manuscripts, paintings, portraits, personal effects, engravings and photographs, their paths are retraced. The top floor features a superb Ballantyne press, on which Sir Walter Scott's first edition of Waverley was printed.

As its name suggests, the People's Story Museum tells the story of the people of Edinburgh from the 18th century to the present day. It shows the evolution of work, living conditions, but also morals and ideas. Mannequins, objects and descriptions relate the everyday life of the people and their city. Trade, day-to-day subsistence, war, the homosexual community, the alcohol and printing industry, trade unions, fishing, the navy, mining, transport, domesticity: everything is depicted, right up to the punk movements of the 1990s. The exhibition takes place on 3 levels, in a superb historical building from 1591, which was the headquarters of the independent municipality of Canongate. You can also discover the atmosphere of "The Canongate Toolbooth": a prison with the reputation of being one of the worst that the 18th century had known. Amongst the points covered by this museum, the Little Face was fascinated by the links between the riots of the 1780s and 1790s in Edinburgh and their influence on the French Revolution. Born out of opposition to the Catholic Church and anger over rising food prices, they were suppressed in blood and most likely gave impetus to the movement that took place in France. Moreover, as a witness to this link, a replica of a key to the Bastille is on display here. There is also a focus on the birth of the "unions" in the 1800s and the socialist movements.

This museum, which opened in 2006, is a young museum in Edinburgh, as its neighbours have been living there for a long time. He specializes in money, the banking system and the economy. It may not sound very sexy, but its location in the heart of the former Bank of Scotland headquarters and its didactic aspect make the visit very informative. The history of money, the rise of capitalism and insurance, the role of banking over time and real estate after the Industrial Revolution are the main themes discussed.