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The Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, held every summer since 1947, is world famous; its 1,900-seat theater opened in 1994. Other notable features are the National War Memorial; the collections of the Royal Scottish Academy, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Royal Scottish Museum, and the Museum of Scotland; the National Library; Princes St.; the Royal Botanic Gardens; the house of the Protestant reformer John Knox; the church of St. Giles, dating from the 12th cent.; the Real Mary King's Close, narrow streets and buildings that were buried underground in the 18th cent.; and the site of the famous prison, Old Tolbooth, which figures in Scott's novel The Heart of Midlothian. The Univ. of Edinburgh, founded under James VI in 1583, has noted faculties of medicine, law, divinity, music, and the arts, and its graduate faculty for electronic engineering is one of the largest of its kind in Great Britain.
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