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Portobello Pier was a pleasure pier opened in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. Designed by Thomas Bouch , it was 1,250 feet (380 m) long [ 1 ] and 22 feet (6.70 m) wide, and included a tea room , camera obscura , and a concert hall .
Portobello Police Station, by Robert Paterson built as Portobello Town Hall in 1878 and later used as the Police Station Butcher's shop in the High Street. Portobello is a coastal suburb of Edinburgh in eastern central Scotland. It lies 3 miles (5 km) east of the city centre, facing the Firth of Forth, between the suburbs of Joppa and Craigentinny.
This list of museums in Scotland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. [1]
This list includes the historic houses, castles, abbeys, museums and other buildings and monuments in the care of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). HES (Scottish Gaelic: Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland’s historic environment.
1998 saw the opening of the Museum of Scotland (now the Scottish History and Archaeology department), linked internally to the main building. The major redevelopment completed in 2011 by Gareth Hoskins Architects uses former storage areas to form a vaulted Entrance Hall of 1,400 m 2 (15,000 sq ft) at street level with visitor facilities.
Portobello Central, which became a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) on 8 July 2021, [21] said that it expects the building to re-open in April 2022. [22] On 10 November 2022, the Finance and Resources Committee of the City of Edinburgh Council agreed to offer Portobello Central SCIO a 25 Year, fully repairing, lease at £1 ...
The National Museum of Scotland, comprising two linked museums on Chambers Street, in the Old Town of Edinburgh: The Museum of Scotland - concerned with the history and people of Scotland; The Royal Museum - a general museum encompassing global geology, archaeology, natural history, science, technology and art
The People's Story Museum is located in the historic Canongate Tolbooth, and features collections that narrate the story of the working-class people of Edinburgh from the late 18th century to the present day. [1] [2] The museum achieves this through the use of oral history, reminiscence, and written sources. [3]