Archive

Moths, Monitoring and a Mountain Hare: collections care during lockdown

Before we all left site on 22 March 2020, planning for caring for collections during lockdown had already started. The…

• By Anna Starkey
• 11th June 2020

An Outsiders View – The Making of the Glenmorangie Commission

Since 2018, Simone ten Hompel has been taking a journey into the world of National Museums Scotland, its artefacts, and the…

• By Sarah Rothwell
• 1st June 2020

No Place Like Home

• By Dr Chris Breward
• 29th May 2020

A Symbol for Love and Good Health: A 17th Century Japanese Buddhist Mandala Painting

• By Vicki Hanley
• 27th May 2020

How to Use Conservation skills in Lockdown: what are our paper and textile conservators getting up to?

• By Rosie Nuttall
• 27th May 2020

Sharing our Members’ museum stories

• By Aimee Hooper
• 21st May 2020

Finding China, Japan and Korea in Scotland: East Asia Collections Review

• By Vanessa Tothill
• 20th May 2020

Our collections in the movies

• By Meredith Greiling
• 19th May 2020

The King’s Flints: New Light on Prehistoric Stone and Bronze artefacts from Denmark

• By Luke Dale
• 19th May 2020

Into the Hills: Digging for Scottish Gold

• By Dr Sarah Laurenson
• 14th May 2020

The Lost Sock

• By Miriam McLeod
• 7th May 2020

Looking for ancient Egypt across Scotland: The National Ancient Egyptian Collections Review

• By Dr Dan Potter
• 7th May 2020

Finding solace in beauty

• By Sarah Rothwell
• 4th May 2020

On this day in 1945: collections from the last bomber raid of WW2

• By Ian Brown
• 2nd May 2020

New Director’s reflections

• By Dr Chris Breward
• 30th April 2020

Wrapped Attention: Conserving a Roman-Egyptian Mummified Girl

• By Danielle Connolly
• 22nd April 2020

Communicating remotely…

• By Alison Taubman
• 17th April 2020

Ask Me Anything with Meredith Greiling, Senior Curator of Transport

• By Meredith Greiling
• 13th April 2020