Edinburgh Museum
The best way to learn about the city’s history is through the Edinburgh Museum. Its exhibitions take you back several centuries and highlight important events from the early Middle Ages to the present day. The rich collections of engraved silverware, jewellery and everyday objects will impress even those who aren’t interested in history.
The first museum visit begins in the room where a large 17th-century model of Edinburgh is on display. The engravings and earliest photographs show little of the small historic Royal Mile Street on which the museum is located. The layout of the modern city only tells of its enlargement, but the historic part has remained intact and retains the wonderful atmosphere of early Edinburgh.
Edinburgh’s silverware is a frozen song. Collections of crockery are not just everyday items from which dukes and kings ate; they are works of art. only Scottish craftsmen can carve and engrave like this. The technology of engraving on glass is still protected and handed down from generation to generation by a few dozen craftsmen. The exceptional painted porcelain pieces are no less interesting.
