Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p>Assisted disabled access.</p><div>Palimpsest: Literary Edinburgh invite you to meet Sir Walter Scott and Mrs Margaret Oliphant, prolific writers who featured Edinburgh in their works and so helped to create its literary cityscape. You will find them both in Edinburgh University's Playfair Library on Doors Open Day. Discover more about their fascinating lives and how their influence lives on today!</div><div></div><div>www.ed.ac.uk</div><div>www.palimpsest-eng.appspot.com</div> OpeningTime1 11.00-17.00 OpeningDate1 28/9/2014 OpeningTime2 12.00-17.00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 13155 Refreshments No Street The street address OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE Postcode EH8 9YL Parking No DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Playfair Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1761 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource <div>Work on Robert Adam�s original design began in 1789 and paused at his death. It was completed by William Henry Playfair who combined the two courts into one great court and created the magnificent Playfair Library. The dome, added in 1887 to a design by Robert Rowand Anderson, is not open to the public. Other meeting rooms contain fine paintings, including a dozen by Raeburn. The landscaped quadrangle was made possible in 2011 thanks to a generous benefactor.</div><div>Meet the (Dead) Authors</div><div>�</div><div></div>