Upcoming Events

BSL Blood and Guts: The Twists and Turns of Edinburgh's Medical History

Date(s): 11 August 2025

Time: 11am

Cost: £9.95-£18.95

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsl-blood-and-guts-the-twists-and-turns-of-edinburghs-medical-history-tickets-1373129741019?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join Surgeons Hall Museum for this BSL interprited walking tour as part of Edinburgh Deaf Festival. We will take you through the highs and lows of Edinburgh’s world-renowned medical history. Discover the intrigues, rivalries, and dedication to the cause as our guide leads you through the sites where anatomists, surgeons and physicians worked, opera…

Skeleton Reconstruction Drop In Session

Date(s): 12 August 2025

Time: 1.30pm-3pm

Cost: Included in standard museum entry

Age Restrictions: 7+

Can you piece together the bones to solve the puzzle?Come along to our drop-in session and reconstruct a plastic teaching skeleton. For age 7+ Please note: These sessions are not ticketed and are included in the standard price of museum admission. Children must be accompanied by an adult

Surgical Jellybean Challenge Drop In

Date(s): 13 August 2025

Time: 10.30-12pm

Cost: Included in standard museum entry

Age Restrictions: 7+

Try out our manual dexterity challenge - using hands and fingers with precision is an important surgical skill.For age 7+ Please note: These sessions are not ticketed and are included in the standard price of museum admission. Children must be accompanied by an adult

Skeleton Reconstruction Drop In Session

Date(s): 14 August 2025

Time: 1.30pm-3pm

Cost: Included in standard museum entry

Age Restrictions: 7+

The Human Microbiome

Date(s): 11 September 2025

Time: 2pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-human-microbiome-tickets-1372961176839?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join museum research Fellow Professor Ken Donaldson for this exploration of the human microbiome. The Dutchman Antony van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to see microbes, which he saw with his new invention, the microscope, in the late 17th century. At the same time he described “very little animalcules, very prettily a-moving”, in scrapings from …

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