There is no shortage of impressive vantage points in Edinburgh to ponder the views of a city which has inspired writers and artists for centuries. But I’m not sure there is anywhere quite like the ...

Fears are growing for Edinburgh’s Royal Observatory after warnings that potential UK funding cuts could put its future at risk.

THE birthplace of astronomy and timekeeping in Edinburgh has been awarded a £300,000 restoration grant to transform it in to a world-class contemporary visual arts centre. Did you know with a Digital ...

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A NEW £4.5m gallery and renovation project, atop one of the iconic hills of Edinburgh, is to finally open in November. A restored City Observatory, designed by William Playfair in 1818, is at the ...

Artists including the South African-born Dineo Seshee Bopape are creating works for and in response to an historic Edinburgh observatory, due to reopen this autumn as the new home of the contemporary ...

The practice has restored and redeveloped part of the Calton Hill World Heritage Site for contemporary art organisation, Collective, adding a new sunken gallery and cantilevered restaurant ...

Local scientists are part of a hunt to establish whether there might be planets capable of supporting life. The Scottish-based team is building an instrument to analyse the "wobble" of stars which ...