Although it wasn't bitterly cold today, it wasn't a very nice day so R. and I decided it was an indoor day and went to the National Museum of Scotland in Chamber Street. It was quite a pilgrimage for me as we passed the Old College where I used to have lectures in History, and went into Chamber Street, where I used to have some of my French classes. The building where I used to attend the French classes seems to have been knocked down, these are buildings nearby.
Everywhere looks different; there no longer seems to be a Refectory half way down the steps in Guthrie Street, and the building where I lived for a few weeks, which was where the Women's Union moved to in about 1963 is no longer a University building and looks quite run down.
R. and I had gone to the Museum to see the Viking exhibition,
but we had a quick look round the museum first, which has been completely changed quite recently. It is extremely spectacular inside - this is what used to be the entrance hall.
There are many areas exactly calculated to appeal to children, with interactive areas and lots of historic forms of transport.
I took a good many photos as we wandered round. I did take a photograph of Dolly the sheep, but the lights in the case were too bright and it didn't come out too well.
We went into the exhibition which displays more than 500 objects from the collections of the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm. Apparently these objects are rarely seen outside Scandinavia - certainly I don't recall having seen them, even thought I'm fairly sure I visited the Swedish History Museum when visiting Stockholm in 1977. I suppose that was a lifetime ago. The objects were well displayed with a lot of attendant information, but unfortunately I wasn't able to take any pictures.
When we came out it was nearly 4 o'clock, so we hastily went for the bus, but just missed it. As the next one wasn't due for 20 minutes and it was too cold to stand about, we walked along the South Bridge, across the Royal Mile and down Cockburn Street
and then across the Waverley Bridge and into Princes Street, where we soon caught a bus home.
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