Archive

Managing Mannequins for Body Beautiful: Diversity on the Catwalk

There are many aspects of a costume exhibition that involve the textile conservation team, but one of the most interesting,…

• By Lynn McClean
• 15th June 2020

A mantua gown fit for a ball once again

The National Museums Scotland’s exhibition, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites, took place in the summer of 2017. One of…

• By Miriam McLeod
• 12th June 2020

Garments on tour

• By Rosie Nuttall
• 12th June 2020

Not Fade Away – Constructing a Replica Victorian Bodice for Permanent Display

• By Miriam McLeod
• 12th June 2020

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

• By Anna Starkey
• 11th June 2020

An Outsiders View – The Making of the Glenmorangie Commission

• 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