National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street, Portsburgh, Edinburgh, EH1, United Kingdom
Dolly the Sheep stands in a glass case on the first floor, looking remarkably calm for an animal who changed the course of biological science.
Scottish National Gallery
The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL
William Henry Playfair designed this building in the form of a Greek temple, and Prince Albert laid the foundation stone in 1850.
Surgeons' Hall Museums
Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW
There's a pocket notebook bound in the skin of a serial killer on display here, and it's one of the less unsettling items in the collection.
The Writers' Museum
Lady Stair's Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2PA
Tucked down a narrow close off the Lawnmarket, a seventeenth-century townhouse holds one of literature's strangest collections: a plaster cast of Robert Burns's skull, Sir Walter Scott's rocking horse, and the ring a Samoan chief gave Robert Louis Stevenson.
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