Fantastic for kids and adults alike, the camera room is a great historical experience, and the museum of optical illusions has every type of demonstration. We spent well over an hour here after the initial visit to the camera room. Good value for a family visit, and possibly the best place to photograph the castle from.
I thought this place was fascinating. The camera obscura offers amazing panoramas of the city and the optical illusions are just mind-blowing.
Lots of interesting thing's to do and see, great fun fir all ages
Get to the top floor 3-5 minutes before show starts, to get a better place.
My two year old loved this!
Lots to do for children. Although I personally wouldn't bother with the room at the top. Boring!
Very pleasure place with five floors. It s very entertaining and you have many things to do and see. For me you have to visit it.
Great experience for all the family. Highly recommended.
Great afternoon of fun, could have spent longer in there had we not been in such a rush. Highly recommended for all the family.
Really great, fun place. We had a ball with the kids here, lots of interactive displays for them to get their hands on.
Make sure you wear the gloves in the mirror maze, other people weren't bothering and the fingerprints ruin the illusion completely!
Amazing experience, one of a kind place do take out time to see this, the 3rd Floor is the best
This place is sooo cool you can basically do anything.
I really enjoyed this place. Edinburgh castle was not open yet so we decided to kill some time here. The kids really enjoyed it because the displays are really hands on. The show led by Laura was very entertaining. A word of warning, if you have young children with you keep them close by when entering the mirror maze. My child managed to run straight into a mirror, which could have ended badly.
Absolutely amazing the camera obscura was fab and the mirror maze messed with my head, the vortex left my head spinning
Best experience for families and friends to discover the city a different point of view
Definitely worth a visit. Spent a good hour and a half in there. Go when less rush to not feel rushed
Brilliant place!
You can pop in early in the day and continue to use your ticket all day, even going out for lunch before returning.
Not recommended for those who struggle with steps owing to the amount of them in the old building.
Such a great experience. This place is a must each time we visit Edinburgh. Visit with confidence knowing that they have their covid measures in place and enjoy the experience without the crowds. A real treat during these strange times
Great destination at any time of the year, but the views across the city and across to Fife on a sunny day are spectacular. Some exhibits are a little tired but the quantity and variety are awesome.
This attraction has 6 floors of pure visual entertainment. Playing tricks with your senses is all part of the attraction here and worth a trip, especially if you have kids or are big kids yourself!!
Great family attraction spoiled slightly by a questionable machine that allows you to change your face from white to black/asian etc...not really okay in this day and age...
On the whole a great attraction and well worth a visit.
A fun experience into 6 floors of obscure illusions and mind boggling brain teasers,with top floor to take pictures of the city and architecture an the Castle. Admission a little pricey for what you get,but overall a pleasant experience.
Camera obscura is the most amazing place I've visited. It's very interactive and appropriate for all ages. You start the tour from the top of the building and work your way down. You actually learn stuff while having fun. It's cool that you can come and go as you want once you purchase your tickets. I highly recommend it for a day of fun!
This has been one of the most enjoyable experiences I have had in a long time.
Excellent value for money. Spent about an hour and a half there. Loads of illusions to interact with and great views from the top looking over to Fife. Hand sanitisers a plenty if visiting through these covid times.
Stunning views from the top and lots of things to see and do on the way up.
Absolutely wonderful! I enjoyed experiencing all of the many weird and wacky interactive illusions.
Good fun and cool illusions however very overpriced!
Great place to visit and spend some time, especially for children. Decent pricing. Main attraction on the 6th floor was on the short side but still fun.
Five floors of absolute fun for all ages! It was wonderful, and it was amazing to see all the illusions that looked so realistic! The show at 7:30 when we went was one of our highlights! It was very funny and interesting!
Very fun visit for my son. Broke up a boring day of history stuff for him.
Absolutely crazy in the best way possible!! And if the illusions aren't enough, the view from the top of the building tops it off!
Lots of illusions including a mirror maze, shadow wall, perspective tricks and holograms topped off with a victorian camera obscura showing views of Edinburgh. We had a brilliant time!
Surprisingly full of so many varied activities. Great for kids of all ages. Saved the day for the youngsters we were with. Really worthwhile. Definitely exceeded expectation.
Amazing place went whilst on holiday in Edinburgh in summer. Has a fun mirror maze and colour illusion tunnel. Lots of cool illusions to have a go at inside. If you get a stamp you can also go in and out throughout the day if you have other things booked eg. We went in obscura at 9 till 12 then went to the castle for a couple of hours then we went ba k into obscura
Fun place to spend an hour or so. Some of the optical illusions are quite breathtaking. Well worth a visit even if you don't have kids.
Good attraction you will be amazed by the illusions. Good for kids
Probably the best place we visited in Edinburgh well worth a visit, good fun and interesting.
Really interesting. Great mix of art and science. Good fun for all ages
It was amazing highly recommend this to tourists,family's with kids and other people in general
Fantastic place for the whole family and six floors of interactive fun for all.
Really enjoyed our visit, our 2 year old daughter had a brilliant time. Well worth a visit if you have a couple of hours to spend and are near the Royal Mile.
Lots of fun, really interesting. Victorian CCTV!!! Brilliant. So much to do and see.
A beautiful and unusual museum in the centre of Edinburgh.
It's a very interactive place I loved it
A great attraction for both kids and adults
The main camera obscura is fantastic!
A must if you are around.
I'm 28, going on 29... and this place still made me happy and extremely satisfied. I had fun like little kids! So much fun things to see and do there. I was alone so you might need some help from others to take your pictures while you are there :) Top floor has a very nice rooftop view of beautiful Edinburgh. If you are in town, this place is a must! 2 hours will be plenty enough.
Very friendly staff with lots of great knowledge and great things to do inside while it was pouring down outside
Don t miss it if you are visiting & a small tip yo come early in morning to avoid the crowd & enjoy it
Fun place to go with kids...
My 2 .5 yr old enjoyed there
Very nice and friendly staff.
Great place to visit with the family. Fun for all ages. One way system in place with hand sanitizers are in many locations to ensure customers safety. Would highly recommend a visit.
Neat spot right next to Edinburgh Castle with several floors of hands-on exhibits. Can get pretty crowded and the main exhibit lasts only a few minutes. The view from the top floor is really nice and worth walking up the 6 flights of stairs.
Amazing place. We never planned on visiting but I'm so glad we did. Loads of interesting things to see and do. Worth the visit just for the geat views of the city and the castle.
Lots of fun for all ages! The perfect attraction for a rainy day, if you had enough of typical museums
One of the fun things you can do in Edinburgh. It was completely worth the money. Thoroughly enjoyed myself. Definitely recommend it to anyone who wants some fun time.
Some fantastic things. Easily killed 2 hrs with my 7 year old son.
You could easily spend two hours in here, each floor of the building is packed with a wide variety of illusions, games and tricks to interact with or be amazed by.
The light show on the top floor was closed when we visited due to the weather, which is the only reason I don't give 5 stars. Although they did offer us 10% discount because of this, I have heard that this light show is the best thing in the World of Illusions, so it was still quite sad that we couldn't see it.
Staff were friendly and gave us umbrellas outside while we were queuing to stay dry and overall it was definitely worth the visit, would definitely go again.
Absolutely fantastic experience, kinda like a cute science museum. All the staff were super friendly and entertaining. Didn't realise there could be so many different types of illusion. Picturesque panoramic views of Edinburgh from top floor, and loved the mirror maze and vortex tunnel on floor 2, and of course the musical stairs and autowed machine! Great for kids ans big kids alike. 10/10 would recommend.
We had a lot of fun here. There were lots of interesting things to see and experience
We got a bit dizzy but we all loved it, the mirror maze was.. amazing. Also has a great show at the top that is worth viewing!
I had walked past this place so many times, but never gone in, however, someone else took me and I wish I had gone years ago. It's really interesting and there is a lot to do. The illusions are great fun, so are things like plasma balls etc. It makes you feel like a kid again. There is a tunnel thing there where they spin the outside and you run across a bridge. It is so disorientating, but masses of fun! There is also a maze. For those old enough to remember the movie 'Big', there is a Zoltar machine too! Definitely worth a visit.
Had a great day out here. Loads of fun for young and old. We spent nearly 3hrs looking around. My biggest advice is to take your time, you will enjoy it more.
The best part of this was the Camera Obscura, through which people could see a large area around us. I was amazed that the Camera Obscura was just based on simple scientific principles.
Good thing to see at an okay price. The actual show is entertaining and you get a stamp for all day entry
Must for all ages.. kids enjoy alot .. visited twice and can visit many more times
Haha its a great place to have a little fun the optical illusions are actually quite interesting.
Interesting museum but it was overshadowed by the crowing and lack of social distancing.
I had so much fun.
There was a lot of variety and thing you can interact with.
It wasn't very educative but that made it more fun.
I definitely recommend it.
Interesting location in the heart of Edinburgh. I really liked the presentation given by the guide in Camera Obscura.
Fantastically fun place to visit! SO many illusions and cool exhibits to play with and look at. Could keep you entertained for hours! Particularly liked the cameras you could control across the city!
Good fun for the family. I went on the twist 3 times.
My 1 yr old boy enjoyed the light and colors here. His fave wpuld be the giant plastic fruits for some reason lol. Worth the time and money. Will be back again next yr.
The experience was excellent but there were lots of child's that literally pushes you away from the exibits
Really enjoyed it and spent almost 3 hours wondering about. Great we day.
Great place for all, very fun and really good value, lots of things to do and to interact with
Visited this afternoon. Love it. Guy in camera obscura really funny. All staff what was working there during our visit was friendly and cool. Thanks.
5* what a fun place, amazing roof top view with free telescopes. Professional and knowledgeable presentation to being with, Inside CCTV viewing with heaps of interactive fun for all ages. Give yourself 2 hours for this.
An absolutely mind-bending experience- more than worth the admission fee. Good for people of all ages, too.
Absolutely amazing place. Definitely worth a visit!
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