Members' Events
Here is a selection of events that the OTA has arranged for its members in recent years...
2012
Visits and Guided Walks
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery led by senior SNPG staff
Talks
- Queensberry House by Jenny Colcott
- Cowgate Fire Site by Andrew Wright (joint event with the Cockburn Association)
- Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network by SCRAN staff
2011
Visits and Guided Walks
- St Cecilia's Hall and its collections
- Festival Theatre front- and back-stage
- Council Museums Collections Centre led by Paul McAuley of the City's Museums Department
- Burns Monument and Poetry Garden led by Paul McAuley
- Enlightenment Tour of the Royal Mile led by Angus Gillon
- Inch Nurseries led by Jim Carlyle of the City's Park & Green Spaces Department
- Royal Observatory on Blackford Hill
Talks
- The Scottish Cemetery in Calcutta by James Simpson (joint event with the Cockburn Association)
- Management and use of historic graveyards by Dr Susan Buckham
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery by James Holloway, SNPG Director
- John Murray - Edinburgh Connections by David McClay, Senior Curator, John Murray Archive
- Old College excavations, by Tom Addyman of Addyman Archaeology
- Costume and the Visit of George IV in 1822, by Annie Scanlon