Writers' Museum

Lady Stair's House
Lady Stair's Close
Lawnmarket
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 2PA
Scotland

Website

www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/The-Writers--Museum.aspx

Telephone

0131 529 4901

Fax

0131 220 5057

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Visitors can see portraits, rare books and personal objects including Burns’ writing desk, the printing press on which Scott’s Waverley Novels were first produced, and Scott’s own dining table and rocking horse. We have Robert Louis Stevenson’s riding boots and the ring given to him by a Samoan chief, engraved with the name ‘Tusitala’, meaning ‘teller of tales’. There is also a plaster cast of Robert Burns' skull, one of only three ever made. Even if you’re not a bookworm, it’s well worth a visit.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00
In August Sun 12.00-17.00

Closed: Sundays Setember to July

 Admission charges

Free entry

 General services and facilities
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Schools services and facilities
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students
  • Study facilities

Lady Stair's House
Lady Stair's Close
Lawnmarket
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 2PA
Scotland

Website

www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/The-Writers--Museum.aspx

Telephone

0131 529 4901

Fax

0131 220 5057

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collection details

Archives, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Personalities, Social History

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

Lady Stair's House
Lady Stair's Close
Lawnmarket
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 2PA
Scotland

Website

www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/Venues/The-Writers--Museum.aspx

Telephone

0131 529 4901

Fax

0131 220 5057

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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