Royal College of Surgeons Museum

The Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh houses a large collection of historic surgical pathology material.

Sometimes gory (the collection includes a book made from human skin and an amputated foot) but always fascinating and set in a beautiful Playfair-designed building.

Due to a Heritage Lottery Fund Redevelopment Project, the Museum will be closed until Summer 2015.

Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW

0131 527 1711

museum@rcsed.ac.uk

museum.rcsed.ac.uk

@surgeonshall

Anatomical Museum

University of Edinburgh, Doorway 3, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG

@BurkesBones

TheAnatomy Museum is open to the public on the last Saturday of each month but closed throughout June, July and December

As well as various exhibition, there is a permanent collection which includes a collection of life and death masks, items relating to murderers and grave-robbers Burke and Hare and anatomy models.