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Display cases in the History of Surgery Gallery at Surgeons' Hall Museums

Surgeons' Hall Museums · Southside / Nicolson Street

The History of Surgery Gallery

Now showingPermanent collection·£10

Edinburgh's part in modern surgery from 1505, through James Syme, Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson, plus the Burke and Hare case and an interactive Anatomy Theatre restaging Scotland's first public dissection of 1702.

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Elizabeth Blackadder: A Life in Colour at Dovecot Studios

Elizabeth Blackadder: A Life in Colour

Dovecot Studios

Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop at Dovecot Studios

Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop

Dovecot Studios

Objects from the Iron Age Marshill warrior burial shown in Scotland's First Warriors

Scotland's First Warriors

National Museum of Scotland

All exhibitions in Edinburgh this month Coming up in November

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Exterior of Dovecot Studios in the former Infirmary Street Baths, Edinburgh

Dovecot Studios

DesignFree2 min walk
Talbot Rice Gallery entrance at Old College, University of Edinburgh

Talbot Rice Gallery

ArtFree2 min walk
Sandstone exterior of the Museum of Scotland building with its round corner tower on Chambers Street, Edinburgh

National Museum of Scotland

HistoryFree4 min walk
Facade of the Museum of Childhood at 42 High Street on Edinburgh's Royal Mile

Museum of Childhood

ChildrenFree5 min walk

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