Archive

Collecting the Present: a tea set that helps us rethink the past

What does a tea set from 2014 have to do with transatlantic slavery? The recent display of a tea set…

• By Dr Sarah Laurenson
• 13th November 2018

The Museum at war: remembering our servicemen from the First World War

“Do you know if we happen to have a note  (or memorial anywhere)  of any of our staff lost in…

• By Mark Glancy
• 10th November 2018

Art of Glass – Installing at The National Centre for Craft & Design

• By Sarah Rothwell
• 9th November 2018

Robert the Bruce: Objects relating to Scotland’s Outlaw King

• By Dr Callum Watson
• 6th November 2018

Revealing blue light on a 19th-century Chinese helmet decorated with diancui

• By Bethan Bryan
• 3rd November 2018

5 Most Instagrammable Places in the National Museum of Scotland

• By Julianne McGraw
• 26th October 2018

Displaying the poppy hijab

• By Danielle Connolly
• 24th October 2018

Collecting the Present: a life on display

• By Eunice Olumide
• 24th October 2018

Revealing rarely seen robes

• By Laura Dowie
• 20th October 2018

Prints Charming: Japanese woodblock prints that have swept me off my feet

• By Emma Davey
• 19th October 2018

The first millennials: finding the forgotten 11th century in Scotland

• By Dr Adrián Maldonado
• 16th October 2018

Powering up in Maths Week 2018

• By Katie Oldfield
• 13th October 2018

What kind of Scottish Popster are you?

• By Elaine Macintyre
• 9th October 2018

Behind the Beadwork: Stories from an African Collection

• By Dr Leila Sinclair-Bright
• 6th October 2018

Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’

• By Clare Hyatt
• 2nd October 2018

#FutureFeatures: Anna McLuckie

• By Lee Dalgetty
• 1st October 2018

The forgotten African islands: discovering biodiversity on Madagascar

• By Lyndall Pereira da Conceicoa
• 30th September 2018

From soil samples to specialist analysis: introducing our post-excavation service

• By Dr Gemma Cruickshanks
• 28th September 2018