Get the App

Download the Edinburgh 1544 app to explore our reconstruction further. Learn about the capital’s eventful sixteenth-century history, and see recreations of key Edinburgh landmarks as they may have looked in the 1540s.

Key features of the app include:

• Videos of Edinburgh’s sixteenth-century townscape.
• Photospheres visualizing the historic appearance of sites on and near the Royal Mile.
• Interactive hotspots with additional historical information.
• Location aware guide to link historic and modern landscapes.

The app is designed for use with Google Daydream, traditional android devices and iOS devices.

To download the app for Google Daydream compatible devices only:

To download the app for android devices:


To download the iOS version of the app: