Royal Mile/External Links

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• Closes of the Royal Mile photo gallery
• Edinburgh RoyalMile.com
• Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh by James Grant] Printed as a periodical in the 1880s, made available online by Hamish Horsburgh
• Adjacent to Holyrood Palace, the Queens Gallery displays exhibitions of art from the Royal Collection.
• Edinburgh Castle
• The City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries Includes information on The Museum of Childhood and The Writers' Museum.
• Gladstone’s Land, in the Lawnmarket. Owned by the National Trust for Scotland, this is the 17th century tenement home of an affluent merchant.

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John Knox House consists of two town houses (or "lands") with the earlier part constructed about 1470 as part of the redevelopment of the city's walls. The exterior of the front house is much the same as that created in 1560.

• John Knox House
• Lady Stair’s House/Writer’s Museum on the Royal Mile, displays manuscripts, relics and memorabilia of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and R.L. Stevenson.
• The Museum of Edinburgh, formerly known as Huntly House, occupies 16th and 17th century buildings in the heart of the Old Town. Exhibits include:the feeding bowl and collar belonging to Greyfriars Bobby; the National Covenant, the petition for religious freedom signed by Scotland’s Presbyterians in 1638; and the original plans for Edinburgh’s New Town drawn by architect James Craig.

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Street sign on The Royal Mile.

• The Museum of Childhood displays toys, costumes, books, dolls and games.
• The People's Story is housed in the late 16th century Canongate Tolbooth opposite the Museum of Edinburgh. ' The People's Story ' uses oral history, reminiscence, and written sources to tell the story of the lives, work and leisure of the ordinary people of Edinburgh, from the late 18th century to the present.
• Mary King Close
• Edinburgh's Flodden Wall (Old Town)
• A Tour of the City of Edinburgh from The Department of Geography at The University of Edinburgh
• Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre is an exhibition about the whisky making process.
• Camera Obscura and World of Illusions on Castlehill
• The Scottish Storytelling Centre. Opened in 2006, the Centre, which is adjacent to John Knox House, incorporates a Cafe, Theatre, Storytelling Court and Library.