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Colin Adam

Colin Adam

Estates Programme Manager

Victoria Adams

Victoria Adams

Assistant Curator, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas

Lucy Adlington

Lucy Adlington

Guest blogger

Rachel Ainsworth

Guest blogger

Rachel Ainsworth was a Department of World Cultures intern from September 2013 to January 2014.

James Inglis and Alison Taubman

Postgraduate Researcher and Principal Curator, Communications

Claire Allan

Claire Allan

Learning Manager - Learning & Programmes

Stuart Allan

Dr Stuart Allan

Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology

Stephen Allen

Stephen Allen

Head of Learning and Programmes and Curator of Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop

John Ames

Guest Blogger

Matthew Knight and Ella Paul

Senior Curator of Prehistory and Treasure Trove Officer

Nora Frankel and Harriet Perkins

MPhil Textile Conservation students, University of Glasgow

Danielle Connolly and Kate French

Assistant Textile Conservators

Lynsey Anderson

Lynsey was previously a Learning Enabler with National Museums Scotland.

Lin Anderson

Lin Anderson

Guest blogger

Lin Anderson has published eleven novels in the highly successful forensic thriller series featuring Dr Rhona MacLeod. Also a screenwriter, her film River Child won a student BAFTA and the Celtic Film Festival best fiction award. Her feature script Sometime Did Me Seek, a paranormal detective thriller set in Edinburgh, goes into production this year. Lin is co-founder of Bloody Scotland, Scotland’s International Festival of Crime Writing.

Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson

Library and Information Assistant

Susie Anderson

Invertebrates Curatorial Volunteer

Hugo Anderson-Whymark

Hugo Anderson-Whymark

Curator of Early Prehistory, Scottish History and Archaeology

Man with short brown hair, glasses and a dark brown jacket standing in a green field.

Sonny Angus

PhD student at the University of Edinburgh

Kirsty Archer-Thompson

Kirsty Archer-Thompson

Guest blogger

Kirsty Archer-Thompson is Collections and Interpretation Manager at The Abbotsford Trust.

Maria Armstrong

Maria was previously Assistant Textile Conservator at National Museums Scotland.

Claire Arnet

Guest blogger

Claire Arnet showed her donkeys Baxter and Jools at the Heavy Horse Show, National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride.

Peder Aspen

Volunteer, Natural Sciences Department

Peder Aspen is now a volunteer in the Earth Systems Section of the Natural Sciences Department; before retiring he was Curator of the Cockburn Museum of Geology at the University of Edinburgh.

Jacqui Austin

Jacqui was previously Malawi Project Co-ordinator at National Museums Scotland.

Various authors

Hannah Ayre

Hannah Ayre

Guest blogger

Hannah Ayre is a freelance participatory artist, educator, producer and manager. She creates everything from small-scale crafts to large-scale outdoor sculpture and events. For more info visit: hannahayre.com