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Five beautiful book covers for Book Week Scotland

Imagine for a moment that you had never encountered a book before… If you stumbled across one for the very…

• By Morven Donald
• 26th November 2015

Exploring the archive at the National Museum of Scotland

Are you ready for an adventure? Then jump on-board, as this week is Explore Your Archive week. We decided to…

• By Georgia Rogers
• 18th November 2015

Selecting 1,467 photographic objects to display from a collection of 20,330

• By Victoria Adams
• 16th November 2015

How Impact Arts left their mark in the museum

• By Lisa Edwards
• 15th November 2015

Family albums from around the world

• By Christine McLean
• 14th November 2015

Discover the unluckiest items at National Museums Scotland, if you dare…

• By Núria Ruiz
• 13th November 2015

My favourite museum object: Frozen tree in perspex

• By Dr Tacye Phillipson
• 12th November 2015

Ten Victorian Sensation moustaches for Movember

• By Hazel Saunderson
• 10th November 2015

Inside the textiles conservation studio: mounting a 19th-century muslin dress

• By Cecilia Voss
• 7th November 2015

Edinburgh’s dark history: Burke and Hare

• By David McLeod
• 2nd November 2015

Five unsolved mysteries in the National Museum of Scotland

• By Elaine Macintyre
• 31st October 2015

Trick or Treat! Some literary treats from Hallowe’en past

• By Morven Donald
• 30th October 2015

Anyone for tea? Lifting the lid on the best teapots from our collection

• By Núria Ruiz
• 28th October 2015

Picasso, Capra and me

• By Antony Penrose
• 25th October 2015

Inside the textiles conservation studio: conserving a 1740s printed dress

• By Irene Kirkwood
• 23rd October 2015

Exploring saline lagoons in Skye

• By Sankurie Pye
• 21st October 2015

Young Demonstrators: National Museums Scotland’s newest recruits

• By Lynsey McNab
• 21st October 2015

On Yer Bike: collaborative conservation on the Holden Motor Bicycle

• By Diana McCormack
• 19th October 2015