The Maxwellian, Issue 3 of a new journal of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, March 2026. Includes Our Immersive Virtual Tour, IEEE Plaques, Journey from Marconi to 5G.
Issue 2 includes Travels with Peter Higgs, and Issue 1 is a History of Radar Special. All issues.

Maxwell's birthplace 14 India Street tours. Please book ahead: booking details.

• most Tuesdays at 3pm, BUT to ensure that someone is there to greet you, pre-booking is essential
• also some weekend tours: check dates, pre-booking is essential

27-28 September 2025 - Doors Open Days at 14 India Street, Edinburgh, Maxwell's birthplace. We had 375 visitors this year!

13 June 2025 - James Clerk Maxwell's 194th anniversary

Cindy Pom's Newsthink channel has produced a video about Maxwell's life and work. (YouTube, 11'23". Also contains some commercial advertising material at the start and end.)

ICIAM 2023 Maxwell PrizeAwarded to Weinan E for his seminal contributions to applied mathematics and in particular on analysis and application of machine learning algorithms, multi-scale modeling, the modeling of rare events and stochastic partial differential equations. The prize is part-funded by the JCM Foundation. Full details.

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or by post to:

The Treasurer, James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, 14 India Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6EZ

For all enquiries, or to request covenant and Gift Aid forms, please write to us at this address, or contact us via email at:

14 India Street entrance hall.

He was born in this house at 14 India Street, Edinburgh in 1831 and the Foundation bought it in 1993.

This elegant Georgian house, after period restoration, displays a growing collection of scientific and personal heritage material associated with James Clerk Maxwell, his associates and family circle. ...MORE

Interactive virtual tours are always available on line.
The PDF brochure describes the contents of the house.

Marischal College Aberdeen

This new virtual tour of Maxwell related locations across the UK includes Glenlair, Aberdeen, London, and Cambridge.

Start the tour

It uses Google Earth. Click the Present button when it loads.

Maxwell statue on George Street Edinburgh

The Edinburgh tour covers a distance of approximately 3 miles (5km) in and around Edinburgh's town centre. It takes in the homes of James Clerk Maxwell and some of his closest friends and relatives, his school, university and the churches he attended, and other points of interest along the way.

The on-line tour uses Google Earth. Click the Present button when it loads.

We are a small charity formed in Scotland in 1977. Our OSCR registration ID is SC015003. Full details of our Trustees, annual reports etc. can be found by following the links to The Foundation from the top menu or via Contact Us in the footer of each page.

We give many guided tours of James Clerk Maxwell's birthplace and our small museum at 14 India Street, Edinburgh each year, as well as other things to raise awareness of his work and to promote STEM in general.

We produce articles about Maxwell and STEM

• New Series, The Maxwellian,
  Issue 1, History of Radar Special (March 2025)
• Newsletter Archive 2012-23 (19 issues)
  Final issue, Dark matter: a cosmic ghost story

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