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Navigating the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017

What is your experience of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe? How do you navigate the thousands of shows on offer? Answers…

• By Hazel Saunderson
• 18th August 2017

Reed all about it: conservation, framing and glazing of papyri

The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial is a temporary exhibition on at the National Museum of Scotland until 3 September 2017. It presents…

• By Vicki Hanley
• 18th August 2017

Back to school…

• By Sarah Cowie
• 16th August 2017

Object capture: experiments with 3D photography

• By Rob Cawston
• 15th August 2017

Hobby horses, heavy horses, boxes of rosettes and much more: a volunteer’s view of the Heavy Horse Show

• By Antonia Lenz
• 11th August 2017

Live Music Now Scotland launches its 2017 Free Fringe Music programme 

• By Carol Main
• 5th August 2017

What a carrion: Monitoring insect visitors to the Botanic Gardens famous Corpse flower

• By Ashleigh Whiffin
• 4th August 2017

Rebuilding Roman silver: a fantastic find from Fife

• By Dr Fraser Hunter
• 1st August 2017

A month with the National and International Partnerships department

• By Katie Hughes
• 31st July 2017

Introducing two new gemstone acquisitions

• By Peter Davidson
• 30th July 2017

Making contact: digital experiments with visitor donations

• By Rob Cawston
• 27th July 2017

Six degrees of antiquarian separation

• By Julie Holder
• 21st July 2017

Packing a punch: cataloguing the museum’s punch card machines

• By Sophie Hamill
• 15th July 2017

Magnificent flying machines for Scotland’s National Airshow

• By Norm Webster
• 13th July 2017

In search of a Bonnie Prince…

• By Maggie Wilson
• 12th July 2017

Scotland’s National Airshow past and present

• By Norm Webster
• 6th July 2017

Digitisation: An internship in photography and butterflies

• By Edward Ivimey-Cook
• 5th July 2017

The cavalry are coming

• By Dr Fraser Hunter
• 30th June 2017