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Cloning Dolly? Introducing 3D printing at National Museums Scotland

I started volunteering at National Museums Scotland as a student at Heriot-Watt University; for several years, both establishments have run a student placement…

• By Tom Seatter
• 4th February 2016

Silver linings: conserving the Borghese travelling service

This summer, ten new galleries will open at the museum, showcasing the very best of our collections in applied art, design…

• By Isabel Wagner
• 1st February 2016

Pilcher’s Hawk gets its wings: an internship with textiles conservation

• By Nora Frankel and Harriet Perkins
• 26th January 2016

Good news for the National Fund for Acquisitions

• By Karyn McGhee
• 22nd January 2016

What does a museum look like with no objects? A guided tour of our new galleries

• By Núria Ruiz
• 21st January 2016

The Last of the Silver Darlings

• By Sarah Rothwell
• 19th January 2016

Preparing Pilcher’s Hawk to Fly Again

• By Gemma Thorns
• 15th January 2016

The Lothian Birth Cohort: medical imaging in our new galleries

• By Sophie Goggins
• 8th January 2016

Once upon a time: Our top social media stories of 2015

• By Elaine Macintyre
• 29th December 2015

A Madonna and Child at National Museums Scotland

• By Dr Rachel King
• 24th December 2015

Ancient Egypt Transformed: Middle Kingdom Egyptian objects on loan from National Museums Scotland to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• By Dr Margaret Maitland
• 22nd December 2015

The Upside-down Catfish

• By Isabel Stünkel
• 22nd December 2015

No fly zone: In search of Tachydromia in Norway

• By Stephen Hewitt
• 20th December 2015

Northern Modernist Jewellery

• By Sarah Rothwell
• 19th December 2015

All set for a cracking Christmas crafternoon

• By Alison Rae
• 9th December 2015

Memories of the Glenkindie telephone exchange

• By John Ames
• 9th December 2015

On the march with the tartan army

• By Tessa Hartmann
• 30th November 2015

Chasing ancient sea dragons on land and in Skye

• By Dr Nick Fraser
• 27th November 2015