Qualla: Museum of Edinburgh https://qualla.com/museum-of-edinburgh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-of-edinburgh-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Museum of Edinburgh https://qualla.com/museum-of-edinburgh Museum of Edinburgh: Introduction https://qualla.com/museum-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0. The yellow building on the Canongate is hard to miss. Three storeys, irregular roofline, mustard-coloured render rather than the usual sober stone, it stands out from the dark closes and squared townhouses around it. Locals still call it Huntly House, the name it had before 1924, when the city saved it from demolition. Inside is the Museum of Edinburgh: 220,000 objects across all its venues, four collections recognised as nationally significant, and one of the things every Scottish school group eventually comes to see, an original signed copy of the 1638 National Covenant. Most of Edinburgh's history is in this building, much of it in the form of silver and longcase clocks.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-museum-of-edinburgh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Museum of Edinburgh: A Hammermen's Headquarters https://qualla.com/museum-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 2.0 de. The building dates from 1570. The traditional story attaches it to George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, of Clan Gordon, but the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland considers that connection erroneous. What is well established is that in 1647 the...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-museum-of-edinburgh-a-hammermens-headquarters.mp3 0:06 2 full Museum of Edinburgh: The Covenant on Display https://qualla.com/museum-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit dun_deagh, CC BY-SA 2.0. One room in the museum is given over to an original copy of the National Covenant, signed at Greyfriars Kirk in February 1638. The Covenant was a public declaration by Scottish Presbyterians refusing to accept the religious innovations of King Charles I, who was trying to impose ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-museum-of-edinburgh-the-covenant-on-display.mp3 0:06 3 full Museum of Edinburgh: Silver, Glass, Clocks, Porcelain https://qualla.com/museum-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0. The museum's main job is to hold the decorative art of Edinburgh, and there is a lot of it. Cut and engraved Edinburgh glass. Hallmarked silver from Edinburgh and the Canongate. Costume. Longcase clocks. Scottish pottery and Scottish porcelain dating from the 1760s, the era when ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-of-edinburgh-wp/gcvw-museum-of-edinburgh-silver-glass-clocks-porcelain.mp3 0:06 4 full Museum of Edinburgh: Still Huntly House https://qualla.com/museum-of-edinburgh/ Photo credit Allie_Caulfield, CC BY 2.0. The museum was used as a filming location in Season 3 of Outlander, which is part of why it sometimes shows up on tour itineraries that have nothing to do with museums. Maintained by the City of Edinburgh Council, free to enter, and rarely as crowded as the Royal Mile attractions...

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