It definitely had interesting and unusal exhibits (at least for adults) and I smiled when I saw reviews that they didn't have enough basic things for small kids to bang violently on until they broke :)

The aviation part of that museum itself was quite impressive and I put it in its own page

nice to see a streetview bike

I got to learn how multicord encoding worked at the time

kind of sad when I know some historical communication devices :)

nice to see more silicon lingots in museums, that's where all our chips come from

the UK has several crappy 3 wheeled cars because taxes/insurance for them was cheaper

gotta love old commercials

even a section on genetics, including this 7 toed cat.

or less fun, but good to mention, this euthanasia machine

the mail train allowed agents to sort the mail while it was transiting to its destination

the eurostar that takes you from Paris to London, based on the TGV

they had an original japanese bullet train

that original train was very spacious inside, probably too much so for real speed

nice diesel engine

nice cutout of a steam engine

I had no idea it went through a bunch of tubes like this

Mallard, fastest steam train in the world at the time

The back had a shop where they work on old trains:

I naively thought 4H woudl do it, but honestly not quite. Had I known I'd have started a bit more quickly than I actually did.

I probably spent a bit too long in the prehistoric section, which was nice:

A good section of the people who used to live in Scotland, all the way back to the Romans and Vikings:

how scotland was fighting england

coins for all occasions

cigarette for soldiers in hospitals, brilliant!

A good portion of the museum was a nice natural history museum:

funny how that old dinosaur looks a lot like the pretended lock ness monster :)

nice collection of felines :)

did I mention felines? :)

The science museum section also had good displays:

dolly the sheep, the one that was cloned

printing press

Peter Higgs who theorized the Higgs boson over 50 years before Cern was finally able to confirm its existence

nice collection of computers, most european:

A floor showed how Scotland was very much involved in the tech industry, including semi conductors:

huge silicon lingo that wafers and chips are made from

A nice collection of art from around the world:

I so barely finished in 4H and had to rush some bits. Without a proper map and navigation it's a bit of a mess to visit though due to multiple kinds of museums all mixed into one. That said, well worth the visit, too bad it closes kind of early (17:00).