St Cecilia's Hall Concert Room and Music Museum

Please note that due to essential building works, St Cecilia’s Hall will be closed until June 2026. For more information, visit our website.

This work will improve building insulation and conditions for our collections. St Cecilia's Hall Concert Room and Music Museum is Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall. Now home to the University of Edinburgh's musical instrument collection, St Cecilia's Hall is a public museum, open Tuesday-Saturday with free admission, as well as a concert and events venue. St Cecilia’s Hall is proud to be part of The University of Edinburgh. We are part of the Library and University Collections Division of Information Services. The building displays a small portion of Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh’s 6,000+ collection of historic musical instruments. The emphasis of the Collection is on instruments that are no longer in regular current use and the collecting policy is to acquire instruments when they fall out of use rather than to collect instruments by contemporary makers. The Collection thus covers the period from the 16th century (the earliest period from which examples are available for acquisition) to the 20th century (the most recent date from which instruments can be regarded as historical).