Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh

42 High Street
Royal Mile
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 1TG
Scotland

Website

www.cac.org.uk

Telephone

0131 529 4142

Fax

0131 558 3103

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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Described as 'the noisiest museum in the world'. the Museum of Childhood is a favourite with adults and children alike. It is a treasure house, crammed full of objects telling of childhood, past and present. The museum opened in 1955, the brainchild of town councillor Patrick Murray, and was the first museum in the world to specialise in the history of childhood.

Venue type

Museum

 Opening hours

Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sundays during July & August 12noon - 5pm

Closed: Sundays, September-June

 Admission charges

Admission Free

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in exhibition spaces
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 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
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Loan service
  • Teaching/resources available for HE/FE students

42 High Street
Royal Mile
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 1TG
Scotland

Website

www.cac.org.uk

Telephone

0131 529 4142

Fax

0131 558 3103

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.

There are toys and games of all kinds from many parts of the world, ranging from dolls and teddy bears to train sets and tricycles. Listen to the children chanting multiplication tables in the 1930s schoolroom. Watch the street games of Edinburgh children of the 1950s, and find out how children have been brought up, dressed and educated in decades gone by.

Collection details

Archives, Costume and Textiles, Decorative and Applied Art, Land Transport, Medicine, Social History, World Cultures

Collections services

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

42 High Street
Royal Mile
Edinburgh
Lothian
EH1 1TG
Scotland

Website

www.cac.org.uk

Telephone

0131 529 4142

Fax

0131 558 3103

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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