Edinburgh lectures & talks
This event celebrates the launch of our exhibition '
This Christmas Charity Lecture will explore the relationship between Roald Dahl and his interest in medicin
As the nights draw in, the Scottish International Storytelling Festival celebrates the art of yarn-spinning…
An eye-opening talk and tour on the rightly acclaimed Phoebe Traquair murals.
Discover our latest temporary exhibition, featuring everything from intestinal worms and bezoar stones to m
In 1947, Rudolf Bing, a refugee from nazi Germany, co-founded the Edinburgh International Festival.
The inaugural Culture Summit was in 2012, as a forum for discussion about culture and how it relates to…
P.J. Harvey, Jarvis Cocker, Irvine Welsh, Maggie O’Farrell, Julia Donaldson, and Scotland’s First Minister…
The event will begin at 6pm in our foyer with a wine reception.
Highland fiddler Duncan Chisholm and his band will kick off
Also entitled ‘Theology in Stone’, this talk explored the sheer richness of the inheritance of church archi
The Edinburgh Fringe's "fallow" year might turn out to be a healthy
After the months of uncertainty and gnawing anxiety, the start of the Fringe today feels like a major achie
The Edinburgh Science Festival returns in a month with aroun
With a theme of witches and the backdrop of The Audacious Women's Festival, this production was bound for a
The Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival is an independent film festival screening some of the latest films for…
In Scotland’s enlightenment a bride stabs her husband on their wedding night; a nobleman kills his brother;
Buildings and private gardens, many off-bounds to the general public during the rest of the year, throw ope
Expectations were understandably high for a tour of what is described as “the world's most haunted and para
This behind the scenes tour will present objects, illustrations and early medical texts on the history of m