Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Edinburgh HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear Yes DisabledAccess No Activities Tours of the building will be ongoing throughout the afternoon. OpeningTime1 12:00 - 16:00 OpeningDate1 28/9/2019 OpeningDate2 29/9/2019 OpeningTime2 12:00 - 16:00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 14112 Refreshments No Street The street address 28 Regent Terrace Postcode EH7 5BS Parking No DisabledWC No 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 Scottish Free French House, Official Residence of the Consul General of France Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived edinburgh Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1825 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.95534,-3.175329; Description An account of the resource Nestled on the hillside of Calton Hill, the Scottish Free French House is the Official Residence of the Consul General of France in Edinburgh. The building was purchased in 1942 by the Free French, who fled Nazi-occupied France and rallied around General de Gaulle in Britain to plan the Liberation of France. Since then the House has been the home of France?s much longer relationship with Scotland, and it has welcomed numerous guests coming from all over the world.