National Museum of Scotland
Museums & Science Centres · Edinburgh, Edinburgh & Lothians
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 10am
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16☔ Rainy-day friendly🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh is free and world-class, with a dinosaur skeleton and hands-on galleries that keep children busy for hours.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Travel sickness bands
- Colouring book and pencils
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Travel games
- Muslin cloths
- Bibs
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