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Free things to do in Edinburgh

25 museums and landmarks in Edinburgh are recorded as free entry by OpenStreetMap contributors, and 33 parks, viewpoints and beaches cost nothing by their nature. 18 of them give opening hours.

Contributors marked these as charging no admission. Museums and landmarks only: a zero here is a fact about the place, not an assumption about its kind.

Free by their nature rather than by a tag, so nobody checked these one by one — but a park being free needs no evidence.

Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap and can be out of date. A place is only marked open on Sunday when its record says so plainly.

Free museums — 25 places

  • National Gallery
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; Th 10:00-19:00
    Open on Sunday
  • National Museum of Scotland
    Chambers Street
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; Jan 01 12:00-17:00; Dec 25 off; Dec 26 12:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Scottish National Portrait Gallery
    Queen Street 1
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; Th 10:00-19:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
  • Writers' Museum
    Lady Stair's Close
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Museum of Childhood
    High Street 42
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Museum on the Mound
    The Mound
    Mo,Su off; Tu-Fr 10:00-17:00; Sa,PH 13:00-17:00
  • Talbot Rice Gallery
    South Bridge
    Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00
  • National War Museum
    Apr-Sep: Mo-Su 09:45-17:45; Oct-Mar: Mo-Su 09:45-16:45
    Open on Sunday
  • Fruitmarket
    Market Street 45
    11:00-18:00
    Open on Sunday
  • The People's Story Museum
    Canongate 163
    Mo-Sa 10:00-17:00
  • Royal Scottish Academy
    The Mound
  • The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum
  • The Royal Scots Regimental Museum
  • City Art Centre
    Market Street 2
  • Studio Bizio
    Raeburn Place 20A
    Mo-Sa 10:00-17:30
  • Saorsa Art Gallery
    Deanhaugh Street 8
    Th-Su 12:00-16:00
    Open on Sunday
  • Stills
    Cockburn Street 23
    Tu-Sa 11:00-17:00
  • Ingleby Gallery
    Barony Street 33
    We-Sa 11:00-17:00; Aug Mo-Sa 11:00-17:00
  • White Space
    East Crosscauseway 76
  • Modern One
    Belford Road 75
    Mo-Su 10:00-17:00
    Open on Sunday
  • City Dome
  • One O'Clock Gun Exhibition
  • Inspace
    Crichton Street 1
  • The Hillside

Parks and gardens — 20 places

  • West Princes Street Gardens
    Jan 01-Mar 24: 07:00-18:00; Mar 25-Apr 21: 07:00-19:00; Apr 22-May 26: 07:00-20:00; May 27-Aug 25: 07:00-22:00; Aug 26-Sep 22: 07:00-20:00; Sep 23-Oct 27: 07:00-19:00; Oct 28-Dec 31: 07:00-18:00
  • Holyrood Park
    Queens Drive
  • St Andrew Square Garden
    07:00-20:00
  • Bruntsfield Links
  • George Square Gardens
    Oct-Apr Mo-Fr 07:00-16:00; Apr-Oct Mo-Fr 07:00-19:00
  • The Meadows
  • Dean Gardens
  • Charlotte Square Gardens
  • London Road Gardens
  • Lochend Park
  • Dr Neil's Garden
  • Grove Phoenix
  • Grove in the Park
  • Harrison Park East
  • Harrison Park West
  • Drumsheugh Gardens
  • East Circus Place Gardens
  • Drummond Place Gardens
  • The Field
  • Eglinton and Glencairn Gardens

Viewpoints — 13 places

  • Arthur's Seat
  • Calton Hill
  • Castle Rock
  • Whinny Hill
  • The Nether Hill
  • Haggis Knowe
  • Crow Hill
  • Dunsapie Crag
  • South Viewpoint
  • North Viewpoint
  • Photo trail
  • View over Dean Village
  • Salisbury Crags

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