Friday, 20 July 2018

Friday July 20th - Edinburgh - The National Museum

Friday July 20th

A drizzly grey Edinburgh day

The National Museum

After coming across Greyfriar's Bobby we decided to have lunch at a little cafe nearby:

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It was really good:


Then we progressed down to the National Museum and an early Steam Engine engineered by Wylam Dilly circa 1815 - a close relative of George Stephenon's "Rocket"


The Animal Hall was amzing


We found a digital waterfall that allowed you at the bottom to tap an image and it would show you what the National Museum had and where to find it:




Here is Mary-Ann finding the Maxwell family on a map of Scotland in "The Kingdom of the Scots"


And here is a Pictish Stone and its story:



1 comment:

  1. Just catching up with your travels having arrived home from our much less exciting ones. Great to see updates of some places we've been too- not that much seems to have changed! So glad that you are enjoying tripping around.

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