Events

Digital Lecture: Heroines of the Canongate: Women as Urban and Social Reformers in the Edwardian Old Town

2pm

Digital Talk - From the Curator: An introduction to Auld Reekie Retold

Digital Lecture: Beyond Hornel: Scottish Photographers in Meiji Japan

Digital Lecture: Broughton House & Garden

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop: Hornel’s Garden

Digital Event: Japanese Cultural Event - Sounds and Movement from Old Japan

Digital Lecture: E. A. Hornel and the Morton Photography Project

Digital Event: Japanese Cultural Event - Vibration of Northern Japan

Digital Event: Art in the City

Dementia-friendly

Digital Lecture: Artist, Model, Collector: Photography in the Life and Work of Mary Cameron

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop - Paper Flappers and Jazz Age Fashion

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop - Magic of Origami - The Japanese Art of Paper Folding

Digital Event: Descriptive Tour for visually impaired visitors of E.A. Hornel: From camera to Canvas

Digital Lecture: Documentation and Digitisation of Historic Photographs at the National Trust for Scotland Lecture

Digital Lecture: E. A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas: An Introduction

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop - Responding to Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures - Collage and Printmaking

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop - Cyanotypes (Blueprints)

Digital Event: Descriptive Tour for visually impaired visitors of Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures

Digital Event: BSL Interpreted Tour - E. A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas

Digital Event: Japanese Cultural Event - Gorgeous Kimono on Show

Digital Event: Family Special Event - Nightingale Choir

Digital Event: Family Craft - Make your drawings move - animation sessions

Digital Event: Japanese Cultural Event - Dance of the Flowing Kimono

Digital Event: Art in the City

Dementia-friendly

Digital Lecture: Through the Artist’s Gaze: The Feminine Ideal in E.A. Hornel’s Work

Digital Lecture: Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop - Hornel's Dream

Digital Lecture: Victorian Spiritualism: The Fox Sisters and the World they Created

Digital Event: City Art Centre fashion Show - inspired by the exhibition EA Hornel: From Camera to Canvas

Digital Event: Japanese Cultural Event - Cup of Peace and Simplicity – Tea Ceremony Demonstration

Digital Event: Art in the City

Dementia-friendly

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop - Contrast and compare - Responding to art collections sketching

Digital Event: Descriptive Tour for visually impaired visitors of Bright Shadows - Scottish Art in the 1920s

Digital event: BSL Interpreted Tour - Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s

Digital Event: Costumed performance - The Housewarming

2.30pm

Digital Event: Family Craft - Creepy Crawly Bug Hunt

Family Special Event: RSPB at Lauriston Castle

2nd Saturday of the month May - November

Digital Event: Adult Creative Workshop: Vibrant 1920s Still Life Explorations

Digital Lecture: Spooky History

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Digital Lecture: Bright Young Things? Fashion in the 1920s

Digital Lecture: Proposed and Seconded: The Royal Scottish Academy Nomination Books of the 1920s

Digital event: BSL interpreted tour of Lauriston Castle

Digital Event: Family Craft: It’s a Bird’s Life

Digital Lecture: Roaring Sound: The Instruments of the Jazz Era

Digital Lecture: Razzle Dazzle: 1920s Jewellery

Digital Lecture: Edinburgh in the 1920s: Historical Photos

Exhibition Tour of 'Marine: Ian Hamilton Finlay'

Digital Event: Family Craft - Fantasy Castles

Digital Lecture: The Brave New World of Edwardian Book Illustration and Design

Digital Event: Curator's Tour - Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s

Lecture: Working with Ian Hamilton Finlay

Lecture: The Four Seasons in Full Sail: A Year in the Garden at Little Sparta

Lecture: Patrick Geddes' Evergreen and Charles Mackie

Family Craft: Celebrate World Oceans Day

Costumed Performance: Supporting the War Effort

Family Special Event: RSPB at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Adult Special Event: Film Screening - Downton Abbey at Lauriston Castle

An Atmosphere film screening by New Media Scotland

Leith 2020: An Archival look at Leith

Descriptive Tour for Visually Impaired Visitors to Lauriston Castle

Family Craft: Pirate Treasure Hunt

Leith 2020: Leith Theatre Past Present and Future

Lecture: Charles H. Mackie: Colour and Light

Adult Creative Workshop: Messages and Ships

Family Special Event: The Séance Adventure

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Adult Craft Workshop: Enchanted Woodland Cushions

Lecture: Addressing the legacy of slavery and Empire at the National Trust for Scotland

Exhibition Tour: Charles H. Mackie: Colour and Light

Adult Creative Workshop: Poetic Maritime Prints

Adult Craft: Introduction to Abstract Art

Adult Craft: Romantic Victorian Florals

Lecture: With the Royal Scots in Gallipoli

Lecture: Playing with the Past

Family Special Event: RSPB at Lauriston Castle

Family Craft: Painting with Light

Adult Craft: Linocut Printing

Adult Craft Workshop

Family Craft: Painting with Light

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Adult Special Event - Outdoor Theatre: Shakespeare at the Castle: Romeo and Juliet

From The Three Inch Fools

Family Craft: Croquet Tea Party!

Family Special Event: Treasure Island with Quantum Theatre

BSL Interpreted Tour of Charles H. Mackie: Colour and Light

Family Special Event: How to be a Psychic Conman

Lecture: Murder, Power and … Pineapples?

Adult Special Event - Outdoor Theatre: Shakespeare at the Castle: The Merry Wives of Windsor

From The Three Inch Fools

BSL Interpreted Tour of Lauriston Castle

Adult Craft: Bookbinding & Botanicals

Lecture: Playing Cricket with the Nabis: Charles H. Mackie's French Connections

Family Special Event: The Séance Adventure

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: Summer Magic Workshop with Edinburgh International Magic Festival

Family Craft: Pond life - Pond Dipping

Adult Craft: Summer Mosaics

Family Special Event: RSPB at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event: Spirits of the Dead: The Terror of Edgar Allan Poe

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

MagicFest at the Fringe

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Lecture: A Curious Flowering: The Hydros in Scotland in the 19th Century

Family Craft: Woodland Treasure Box

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event: Spirits of the Dead: The Terror of Edgar Allan Poe

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Adult Special Event: Pinhole Cameras

10am - 12.30pm or 1.30pm - 4pm

Adult Special Event: Pinhole Cameras

Lecture: The Morton Photography Project at the National Trust for Scotland: Collections, Stories, Case Studies

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event: Spirits of the Dead: The Terror of Edgar Allan Poe

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Descriptive tour for Visually Impaired Visitors of Charles H. Mackie: Colour and Light

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event - Magic: The Secret Room at Lauriston Castle

Lecture: Earls, Maids, Dames and Gardeners: Highlights of the Museums & Galleries Edinburgh Costume Collection

Lecture: Ghosts of Edinburgh

Costumed Performance: A Fairley Interesting Look at Lauriston

Lecture: Heroines of the Canongate: Women as Urban and Social Reformers in the Edwardian Old Town

Leith 2020: Enlightened Golfers

Family Special Event: RSPB at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event - Costumed Outdoor Performance: Scots at War at the Castle

Leith 2020: HQ of the Trainspotting Phenomenon

Lecture: Charles Hodge Mackie and the Celtic Revival in Scotland and France

Adult Craft: The Light Through the Trees and on the Water

Family Craft: Upstairs Downstairs

Adult Special Event - Performance and storytelling: Burns v McGonagall: An evening with Scotland’s best poet and arguably the worst!

Special event for adults

Family Event: Flags Ahoy

Family Event: Flags Ahoy

Family Special Event: The Séance Adventure

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Event: Push the Boat Out

Leith 2020: Discovering Leith through Maps

Lecture: A Guid Cause Makes a Strong Arm

Curator’s Tour of Charles H. Mackie: Colour and Light

Family Special Event: RSPB at Lauriston Castle

Adult Craft: Memories of Autumn

Family Craft: Knights of the Castle

Family Special Event: Halloween Wand Making Workshop

Family Special Event

Family Special Event - Halloween: The Halloween Terror Trail

Family Special Event

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: Ghost of the Castle - Hallowe'en Horrors

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: Ghosts of the Castle - Hallowe'en Horrors

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Adult Special Event: The Twilight Seance

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event - Halloween: The Halloween Terror Trail

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: The Lauriston Castle Horror Tour

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: Ghosts of the Castle - Hallowe'en Horrors

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Family Special Event: Ghosts of the Castle - Hallowe'en Horrors

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Adult Special Event: The Twilight Seance

Edinburgh Horror Festival

Lecture: E. A. Hornel: from Camera to Canvas

Leith 2020: A Photographic Walk Through Time

Murder Mystery: Such A Sweet Death?

Friday 5 November and Saturday 6 November

Murder Mystery: Such A Sweet Death?

Saturday 6 November

Lecture: Distant lives: The Earliest Photographs of St Kilda

Family Special Event: RSPB at Lauriston Castle

Lecture: Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s

Family Craft Workshop: Sock Snowmen

Adult Craft Workshop: Tartan Wreaths

Adult Craft: Christmas Patchwork Appliqued Cushions

Family Special Event - Magic: Christmas Tricks with Edinburgh International Magic Festival

Family Special Event

Lecture: Tokens of Festive Magic: The Victorian Christmas

Adult Craft: Printmaking for Christmas

Family Craft Workshop: Enchanted Christmas Pictures

Costumed Performance: An Edwardian Christmas

Adult Craft: Paper Garlands and Silver Wings

Adult Craft Workshops

Lecture: Upstairs, Downstairs: Glamorous gowns to working dress in the Museums & Galleries Edinburgh Costume Collection

Adult Special event - Film screening: Scrooge at Lauriston Castle

An Atmosphere film screening by New Media Scotland

Family Special Event: A Family Edwardian Christmas at Lauriston Castle

Family Special Event

Adult Craft: Festive Decorations

Adult Craft: Country Wreaths and Garlands

Adult Craft Workshop

Adult Craft: Green Wreaths

Adult Craft Workshop

Christmas BSL Interpreted Tour of Lauriston Castle

Adult Craft: Fresh Giant Wreaths

Descriptive Tour for Visually Impaired Visitors of Lauriston Castle at Christmas