Brass Rubbing Centre

Visitors to The Brass Rubbing Centre can take part a fun art activity while enjoying the historic surroundings of Trinity Apse. No experience is necessary, as staff are on hand to help you make your very own rubbing from our beautiful brasses.

** Please note that the Trinity Apse is now closed and brass rubbing facilities will be provided in the Museum of Edinburgh in the Canongate after the completion of ground floor refurbishment works later in 2012. **

Brasses on display at the Brass Rubbing Centre

About

Find out more about The Brass Rubbing Centre and the history of Trinity Apse.

A brass rubbing being created

Visitor Information

The Brass Rubbing Centre at Trinity Apse is currently closed but brass rubbing facilities will be offered at the Museum of Edinburgh once refurbishment works there are completed later this year.

Colourful rubbings on display at the Brass Rubbing Centre

What's on

The Brass Rubbing Centre at Trinity Apse is currently closed.

Hospital riots

Did you Know?

...about riots in the hospital?

Did you Know?

...about riots in the hospital?

Trinity Apse is all that remains of Trinity College Church. This beautiful church was part of a complex that included Trinity Hospital, which housed middle class people who had fallen on hard times. Despite the nearby Church reminding them of the ‘Christian’ way to behave, quarrels and riots often broke out among the residents. In 1780, the historian Arnot wrote about their ‘nasty way of living’, which the governors struggled to control.