The Millennium Clock Tower, built by architect Tim Stead, sculptor Eduard Bersudsky, clock maker Jürgen Tübbecke and glass artist Annica Sandström, "...a massive culmination of human artistic achievement, created by four masters for the Scottish Millennium Festival, to commemorate the human suffering of the twentieth century, embodied and entrapped within the endless prisons of time."
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Find out more about the clock here.
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The 1855 totem pole carved by Oyea Tait, set up in the main entrance hall of the Royal Museum in Chambers Street. It's been there since 1930, when it was brought from Canada to Scotland (shipped in one piece, apparently...)
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