Archive

Collecting the Present: Gaelic-English Road sign

‘These names introduce you to stories and cultures and traditions that are part and parcel of the people and the…

• By Dr Sarah Laurenson
• 14th March 2019

Robots: Mission to Mars

Standing 1.8m tall, with white armour and a glowing blue NASA emblem on its chest, Valkyrie is the stuff of…

• By Ida Maspero
• 12th March 2019

The Quest for Scotland’s Gardening Women, 1800-1930

• By Dr Deborah Reid
• 8th March 2019

Conscience at war: A glimpse into the Conscience Matters exhibition

• By Tobias Kelly
• 4th March 2019

Top ten film robots

• By Julianne McGraw
• 21st February 2019

Five steps to creating a self-led school handling resource

• By Lucy Neville
• 18th February 2019

Exploring the true history behind Game of Thrones at the National Museum of Scotland

• By David C. Weinczok
• 14th February 2019

Embroidering New Stories: Designing and creating a modern sampler

• By Caitlin Stocks
• 13th February 2019

A pioneering collaboration: the invention of the Ultrasound scanner

• By Sophie Goggins
• 11th February 2019

Creating the Creature Quest

• By Clare Hyatt
• 8th February 2019

Dig a Little Deeper: The back-story to a few objects in the National Museum of Scotland

• By Andrea Kaszewski
• 30th January 2019

Exploring the future of museum collections

• By Alistair Brown
• 26th January 2019

Embroidered Stories: caring for your sampler

• By Lynn McClean
• 22nd January 2019

From pests to packing: bringing new knowledge to the Hunterian collections

• By Adam Hotson
• 22nd January 2019

What did our curator think of the new Mary, Queen of Scots film?

• By Julianne McGraw
• 21st January 2019

Creating a virtual jaguar

• By Dr Andrew Kitchener
• 19th January 2019

Archaeology by Design: Contemporary Silversmithing and the New Glenmorangie Commission 

• By Dr Adrián Maldonado
• 18th January 2019

Who pooed it? An unusual Honours project

• By Carla Willars
• 15th January 2019