Archive

Who were the Galloway ‘Vikings’? The surprising story of the runes in the Galloway hoard

Around AD 900 an extraordinary collection of treasure was deliberately buried in the Galloway earth for safe-keeping. Who hid it?…

• By Dr David Parsons
• 16th October 2019

Designing Diversity

Our exhibition Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk, was inspired in part by the National Museum’s involvement with Edinburgh College…

• By Georgina Ripley
• 15th October 2019

“Learn to make a right use of your eyes”: cataloguing a Victorian palaeobiology collection

• By Sherri Donaldson
• 8th October 2019

And now in glorious Technicolor: the making of a digital colour reconstruction of the Umbrian Madonna and Child

• By Diana de Bellaigue
• 5th October 2019

Helping hands: Considering treatment options and mounting for modern art glass

• By Holly Daws
• 3rd October 2019

Real or replica? How to spot a genuine ancient Egyptian artefact

• By Caroline Taylor
• 1st October 2019

Fit for a queen

• By Georgia Vullinghs
• 26th September 2019

Getting intimate with computers behind closed doors

• By Laura Gibson
• 25th September 2019

Whit’s in a name: part 2

• By Peter Davidson
• 23rd September 2019

‘Across the Floor’ with Natural Sciences: a day in 5 senses

• By Lucy Neville
• 21st September 2019

Prehistoric crafts and identities: Special swords, glittering gold and pots for the people

• By Matthew Knight
• 18th September 2019

Conservation of a Korean Court Official’s hat

• By Irene Kirkwood
• 16th September 2019

Bringing the ancient sharks of Wardie Bay back to life

• By Dr Stig Walsh
• 13th September 2019

Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic part 2: fungus gnats

• By Dr Vladimir Blagoderov
• 13th September 2019

Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic part 1: amazing amber

• By Andrew Ross
• 13th September 2019

Life with a microscope in the 21st century

• By Joan Bingley
• 7th September 2019

Museum bagging

• By Sue Beardmore
• 6th September 2019

Conserving four objects from the Dan Klein & Alan J Poole Private Collection of Modern Glass

• By Amreet Kular
• 3rd September 2019