Join our tour to discover Edinburgh’s and Glasgow’s most famous scientific thinkers, and how their work underpinned emerging ideas for understanding the world from the 16th century onwards. 🏴🔎
Afterwards you will have dinner together in the hotel.After a leisurely breakfast you will take the short journey to Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum, the oldest museum in Scotland. What started off as a Victorian gentlemen’s curio collection has expanded to cover nature and life sciences, ethnography from Captain Cooks voyages, Roman artifacts and the founders, Dr William Hunter, collection of anatomical teaching aids.
After checking out, you will board a comfortable coach for the 40-minute journey to the Falkirk Wheel. It’s a visually stunning and unique rotating boat lift with two gondolas that replaced 11 locks and allows ease of navigation between the Union canal and the Forth and Clyde canal. DAY 4: Surgeons Hall, the National Museum of Scotland, walking tour and the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
Then onto The National Museum of Scotland, that houses international collections covering science, technology, natural history, archaeology, world cultures and history. One of the more renowned artefacts is Dolly the sheep, the stuffed body of the first successful cloning of a mammal from an adult cell. Half of the museum is housed within a magnificent iron-clad and light-filled auditorium, reminiscent of London’s Crystal Palace and built in 1866.
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