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Embroidered Stories: caring for your sampler

There are currently 70 samplers on display in the exhibition Embroidered Stories: Scottish Samplers, so we thought this might be…

• By Lynn McClean
• 22nd January 2019

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

One of my favourite things about working in a museum is the variety of objects I encounter. The Hunterian hired…

• 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

Meeting the Gods: Conservation of an 11th century marble statue of Shiva and Parvati from India

• By Bethan Bryan
• 9th January 2019

Creating Skills for Life in Perth with the Creative Pipeline Project

• By Conor Ellis
• 4th January 2019

Coffin of the ‘Qurna Queen’

• By Bethan Bryan
• 30th December 2018

“Evacuating” the Museum to a medieval castle

• By Julianne McGraw
• 27th December 2018

Unwrapping toys from the collections

• By Julianne McGraw
• 25th December 2018

Collecting the Present: Craft, landscape and climate change

• By Dr Sarah Laurenson
• 21st December 2018

What are agates?

• By Julianne McGraw
• 19th December 2018

“A big Scottish pop fashion monster”: Looks inspired by Rip It Up

• By Theresa Coburn
• 14th December 2018

Collecting the Present: Filming the Land Reform story in Eigg and Ulva

• By Luke Moodley
• 13th December 2018

“Hero of an earlier war”: Helping to secure the continuity of the National War Museum after World War II

• By Gillian Gallacher
• 13th December 2018

Filming inside a tomb, on board a bus and more!

• By Anita Briggs
• 11th December 2018

Collecting the Present: the future of Ulva

• By Rebecca Munro
• 9th December 2018