Edinburgh's Camera Obscura and World of Illusions - Edinburgh's finest visitor attraction

The Magic Gallery

The Electric Room

Mirrors Light and Lenses

Moving Pictures

Optical Illusions

Enter a world of head-spinning optical illusions. Have lots of fun with bendy mirrors, big lenses, shadow walls and colourful giant kaleidoscopes. Spot the hidden magic eye pictures, grab the disappearing sweets, swap heads with a friend and lots more!
Everyone loves the ‘Magic Gallery’. It is simple, interactive fun, very hands-on and like nothing you will see elsewhere.

This is our most popular exhibition floor!

Electric room - explore... Hold lightning in your hand with the giant Plasmasphere and light up the room. See your voice crackle in blue lightning as you talk to the sound sensitive luminglass plates, enjoy feeling the force as you touch the green crackle ball and white lightning tube.	Moving pictures - explore... You may have used flick books to transform still pictures into movies. The Magic Gallery takes this illusion further with a display of a zoetrope, a praxinoscope and the seaside classic 'What the Butler saw'. Before your very eyes, drawings and models move and come to life.
Optical illusions - explore... Scientists reckon that magic eye illusions help to improve your vision. Try to spot the hidden images and be bamboozled by many more optical illusions.	Mirrors light and lenses - explore... Lose weight instantly in the bendy mirrors, capture your shadow, swap your nose with a friend, shake hands with your ghost, and become a Big Head in the Giant Lenses.

Camera Obscura and World of Illusions rated "excellent" by 15 travelers

Fantastic! Had such a great laugh.
Jane Norman, Fife

The whole attraction was fun and fascinating. Really well thought out and engaging exhibits. I particularly enjoyed the magic room as there was so much to do. I could have spent hours in there.
Visitor Survey 2010

If I had to sum up the exhibitions I would say it is perhaps the best and most enjoyable fun filled experience in Edinburgh and definitely something for all the family - everyone is going to love this!
Visitor Survey 2010



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