Doors Open Day Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 September 2017 1 Contents Doors Open Day 2017 Welcome The Central Area map 4 St Cecilia’s Hall 5 Doors Open Day, promoted by the Scottish The University of Edinburgh is Civic Trust, is part of a programme of Edinburgh Centre for Carbon integral and fundamentally vital to Innovation (ECCI) 5 European Heritage Days which allow visitors the intellectual, cultural, social and Old College 6 a glimpse of architecturally, culturally and economic fabric of the city-region. socially significant buildings and spaces. Our buildings play an important Talbot Rice Gallery 6 In Edinburgh, this weekend-long city-wide part in defining the character of our Anatomical Museum 7 event each September is co-ordinated by University and of Edinburgh. McEwan Hall 7 the Cockburn Association (www.cockburnassociation.org.uk). With a 430-year history and an estate Teviot Row House 8 which includes many old, converted, Appleton Tower 8 listed and contemporary buildings, it Chapel of St Albert the Great 9 is always an enjoyable challenge to Main Library 9 present an interesting selection for The King’s Buildings: Introduction and map 10 our Doors Open Day visitors. This year, as well as many old favourites in the Ashworth Laboratories 11 Central Area and at King’s Buildings, Grant Institute 11 the line-up includes three newly- Joseph Black Building 12 refurbished buildings: St Cecilia’s FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility 12 Concert Hall and Musical Instrument James Clerk Maxwell Building 13 Museum, the McEwan Hall and Roger Land Building 14 Appleton Tower. Peter Wilson Building 14 At all venues, information will be MRC Institute of Genetics and available through leaflets and Molecular Medicine and map 15 stewards. At some, you may also find talks, tours, children’s activities, displays and exhibitions. Please note Facilities and activities key that Saturday 23 September is also a WC University Open Day for prospective students, so venues may be very busy. Accessible WC Visitor Centre We hope you will find a great deal Full wheelchair access to interest and enlighten you during Information Doors Open Day. Please remember Wheelchair access with assistance that much of what you see is open Official merchandise throughout the year, whether through Displays, information sheets normal museum and gallery opening Branded clothing Tours hours, organised tours, or through our Open Monday to Saturday, 9.30am–5.30pm extensive programme of part-time Talks courses and public lectures. Further 2 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD details of all these can be found at Audio visual displays T 0131 650 2252 www.ed.ac.uk. Children’s activities E [email protected] The front cover shows the entrance to the newly refurbished St Cecilia’s Hall. Refreshments 2 3 St Andrew’s Bus Station A900 South St Andrew Street Calton Hill St Andrew Square Leith Street George Street Waterloo Place A 1 Re gen t Road Calton Road Princes Street Scott Waverley Bridge Monument New Street Canongate Waverley Station A7 North Bridge Kirk Princes Street RSA Gallery St Cecilia’s Hall The Mound The Central Area The University’s history as the Tounis College, established by the Town Niddry Street (off the Royal Mile), EH1 1NQ to Western General Hospital (Central Area map ref 1) National Council in 1583, and its original location in the Old Town serveJeffrey to Street Gallery Market Street underline the symbiotic relationship between town and gown which Open: Saturday 23 September, 12 noon–5pm Princes Street Gardens endures to the present day. St John Street Cockburn Street Canongate Sunday 24 September, 12 noon–5pm St Mary’s Street St Cecilia’s Hall is Scotland’s oldest concert hall City Bank St Chambers Blackfriars Street and home to the University of Edinburgh’s world High Street (Royal Mile) class collection of musical instruments. Built by the Mound Place Tron Kirk Edinburgh Musical Society and designed by Robert St Giles’ Mylne, this Georgian jewel hosted its first concert in Cathedral Holyrood1763. The Road museum displays 500 objects spanning Lawnmarket South Bridge five centuries of musical heritage and history and George IV Bridge Castle 1 Cowgate the Sypert Concert Room offers a lively programme Edinburgh Esplanade The National eet of concerts and events. Castle tr Library of High School Yards S ia Scotland 2 r www.stcecilias.ed.ac.uk o t Cowgate c i V Pleasance Johnstone Terrace Infirmary Street Candlemaker Row R o W College St x b Chambers Street 3 Roxburgh Pl u Grassmarket r King’s Stables Road g h Drummond Street S 4 A7 Nicolson Street t National Museum of Scotland S College Street Greyfriars Kirk Pedestrian Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation underpass Richmond Pl West Port Festival Surgeons’ Bristo Place Theatre Hall High School Yards, Infirmary Street, EH1 1LZ Potterrow (Central Area map ref 2) Lady Lawson Street George Pedestrian access Hill Place Heriot’s Nicolson Open: Saturday 23 September, 11am–4pm School Lothian Street Sunday 24 September, 11am–4pm Forrest Road Square Teviot Place Bristo Marshall St Edinburgh’s Old High School is now the UK’s most 6 Square Edinburgh sustainable historic building. It has been transformed Central Charles St W Richmond St Lauriston Place 5 Mosque into an award-winning energy-efficient hub to foster 7 innovation, joint working and bold thinking in the Lauriston Gardens move to a low carbon future. The £10.5 million Quartermile Crichton Street refurbishment successfully preserved the building’s development W Nicolson St 8 18th century heritage through a combination of George Square new technologies, innovative methods, common Chalmers Street W C Middle Meadow Walk ro Labyrinth s scauseway E Crosscauseway sense and attention to detail, creating a space that to the King’s celebrates its heritage and is an exemplar of social, Buccleuch Street Buildings Campus 9 economic and environmental sustainability. A7 Clerk Street http://edinburghcentre.org/ A700 Melville Drive Guided tours of both ECCI and the nearby Combined Heat & Power (CHP) 10 Buccleuch Place Energy Centre on Sunday at 1pm and 3pm. The Meadows 4 5 Old College Anatomical Museum South Bridge, EH8 9YL (Central Area map ref 3) Doorway 3, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG (Central Area map ref 5) Open: Saturday 23 September, 11am–5pm Sunday 24 September, 12 noon–5pm Open: Saturday 23 September, 10am–4pm (last entry 3pm by ticket* only) Old College sits at the heart of the University. Work on Robert Adam’s original design began in 1789 and The Anatomical Museum was opened in 1884 as an paused at his death. It was completed by William integral part of the Teviot Place Medical School, and Henry Playfair who combined the two courts into one the specimens are still used by Anatomy students. great court and created the magnificent Library. The It was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson who dome, added in 1887 to a design by Robert Rowand submitted plans after touring the classical medical Anderson, is topped by a statue of the ‘Golden Boy’ schools of Europe. His final design mixed elements of bearing the torch of knowledge. Meeting rooms Scottish architecture with a Cinquecento Italian style contain fine paintings, including a dozen portraits by and was described by William Turner, then Professor Raeburn, and are available for hire. of Anatomy, as ‘an ornament to the city’. Download our free app about the history of Old College from www.ed.ac.uk/biomedical-sciences/anatomy/anatomical-museum http://edin.ac/window-on-the-past * To avoid congestion, admission is hourly at 10am, 11am, NB: wheelchair access is from the entrance on West College Street. 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm. Visitors must book tickets at Please telephone 0131 650 8003 in advance for assistance. https://anatomicalmuseumdoorsopenday.eventbrite.co.uk Talbot Rice Gallery McEwan Hall Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL Teviot Place, EH8 9AG (Central Area map ref 4) (Central Area map ref 6) Open: Saturday 23 September, 11am–5pm Open: Sunday 24 September, 10am–4pm Sunday 24 September, 12 noon–5pm After a £33 million restoration, this historic Talbot Rice Gallery is one of Scotland’s leading Lindsay Anderson Archive, University of Stirling graduation building has been returned to its contemporary art galleries. It hosts a vibrant former glory. The iconic hall was built between programme of exhibitions, education and 1888 and 1897 to an Italian renaissance style by events within two distinct exhibition spaces: the Robert Rowand Anderson. It was the result of a gift contemporary white cube and the neo-classical by brewer and MP William McEwan – the largest Georgian gallery which was originally designed by single private donation in the University’s history. Playfair as a natural history museum. Visitors can The meticulous restoration is complemented by enjoy the Gallery’s festival exhibitions, Stephen a new suite of rooms beneath the main hall, thus Sutcliffe: Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs, and Jacob expanding its range of uses. Newly-landscaped Bristo Kerray: Looky Looky. Square now features a modern and inspiring pavilion www.ed.ac.uk/talbot-rice entrance into the Hall. NB: wheelchair access is www.edinburghfirst.co.uk/venues/mcewan-hall from West College Street. 6 7 Teviot Row House Chapel of St Albert the Great 13 Bristo Square, EH8 9AJ (Central Area map ref 7) George Square Lane, EH8 9LD* (Central Area map ref 9) Open: Saturday 23 September, 10am–4pm Open: Saturday 23 September, 1pm–6pm Teviot Row House is one of several buildings Sunday 24 September, 2pm–5.30pm managed by Edinburgh University Students’ Association. It opened in 1889 – making it the Designed by Simpson & Brown and opened in 2012, world’s oldest purpose-built Student Union building this contemporary chapel is located in the garden – and was designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson of one of Edinburgh’s first Georgian townhouses.