Tag: National Museum of Scotland
National Museums Scotland to share in £1 million donation
National Museums Scotland (NMS) has been selected to receive part of a £1 million funding boost from the ScottishPower Foundation.
Backing subjects as diverse as wildlife conservation and science-themed education to mental health awareness and...
Minister for Employability and Training visits Career Hive at The Museum
Jamie Hepburn MSP met with Drummond Community High pupils 'doing science'The Minister for Employability and Training, SNP MSP Jamie Hepburn, visited Careers Hive at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh today (Tues. 27th...
Wild Things are happening at the museum this half term
Visitors to the National Museum of Scotland this week can enjoy a variety of animal-themed activities inspired by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery.Wild Things February Half Term is...
Scotland’s Early Silver exhibition to go on tour
The exhibition at National Museum of Scotland which shows off a thousand years of silver, once considered more valuable than gold comes to an end this month. But it will then be taken to...
At The National Museum of Scotland – Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
The 53rd Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition opens on 19 January and runs until 29 April 2018 in the museum's largest exhibition space.There are 100 fabulous images on display in light boxes which...
Museum Lates – back with a ceilidh
On Friday 10 November Museum Lates is back with a Jacobite theme marking the end of the Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland which has been running...
Meteorite exhibition set for November landing
Down to Earth will reunite the four fragments of the Strathmore Meteorite for the first time since it fell to earth on 3 December 1917.
A display at the National Museum of Scotland will present...
Get ready for the Big Jacobite Weekend – FREE!
This weekend there is some free entertainment at the National Museum of Scotland on both Saturday and Sunday from 11.00 to 16.00.You will meet Alan Breck's Regiment and the soldiers of 1745 who will...
VIDEO : At the National Museum of Scotland – Scotland’s Early Silver
A new exhibition which will run till 25 February 2018 opens at the National Museum of Scotland on 13 October 2017.The exhibition of silver dating from the last thousand years is quite spectacular and...
At the National Museum of Scotland – Age of Oil
At the National Museum of Scotland from 21 July 2017 a new art display will feature the work of visual artist Sue Jane Taylor and her paintings relating to the North Sea oil industry. The...
Employability course for young people at the Museum
Young people aged 14-19 who might benefit from taking part in Impact Arts Cashback to the Future Programme should read on.This programme will run from Tuesday to Fridays from 11 July-4 August 2017 at the...
At the National Museum of Scotland – the Galloway Hoard
The National Museum of Scotland has become guardian of the Galloway Hoard after the Queen's And Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer (QLTR) allocated it to them. QLTR is the owner of last resort in a number...
Painting of Bonnie Prince Charlie to be loaned to the National Museum of Scotland
The portrait, by Louis Gabriel Blanchet, shows Charles Edward Stuart at 19, in full princely regalia. It was painted in Rome in 1739. The Stuarts by this time had been in exile in Europe...
A rare example joins National Museum’s display
A rare example of Sir Basil Spence furniture is now on display in the Design for Living Gallery at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Sir Basil Spence, a leading British architect of the 20th...
Museum wins baby changing award
The National Museum of Scotland has been crowned this year’s winner in the Sudocrem Care & Protect Baby Changing Room Awards in the category for Best Dad’s Toilet.Scottish rugby player Stuart Hogg presented the award to...
Kids go free at Monkey Business
Kids can now go free to Monkey Business at the National Museum of Scotland until the exhibition closes on 23 April, thanks to support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The promotion, which begins tomorrow in...
Our advent calendar – Christmas Gift suggestion #22
Our suggestion is to support the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) by gifting a membership to NMS to your friends or family. You are doing some good while giving a great gift at the...
Come out to play with Dad’s Rock
Dad's Rock is an Edinburgh charity run by Barry, David and Tom. They are all dads themselves and they have put together this bumper list of things to do in Edinburgh with children of...
At the National Museum of Scotland – Monkey Business
The jungle has arrived at the National Museum of Scotland as primates swing from the branches, hang by their tails and screech from the canopy in Monkey Business.More than 60 spectacular new taxidermy specimens of monkeys,...
Our museum is on the telly…
A programme tonight at 21:00 on BBC Two includes discussions among writers Muriel Gray and Alexander McCall Smith, and model Eunice Olumide.They investigate some of the most outstanding treasures from one of the finest...
Styling the Nation at the museum
Earlier this year The National Museum of Scotland opened ten new galleries following continued investment on Chambers Street.
In November the museum will host a sensationally stylish weekend inspired by the Museum’s new Art and...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition opens tomorrow
The world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, on tour from the Natural History Museum in London, will open at the National Museum of Scotland tomorrow Friday 16 September 2016. Admission is free.This will be...
Museum will open the new galleries with a day long party
From Friday 8 July you can enjoy ten new or, perhaps more accurately in some cases, substantially refreshed galleries at the National Museum of Scotland. We think it is a really good combination of old...
Edinburgh Science Festival – Principia Mission Launch
UK Principia Mission Launch EdinburghOn Tuesday 15 December, Scotland marked British ESA Astronaut's Tim Peake’s mission to the International Space Station with European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti who was visiting Edinburgh.In partnership...
At the National Museum in 2016
Ten new galleries will be unveiled at the National Museum of Scotland next summer and, in spring, two redeveloped aircraft hangars will open at the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune.Meanwhile, a packed...
Museum Lates: Victorian Sensation
Well, the Museum Lates this time came with a Victorian twist, albeit elements of steampunk and selfies to drag it right up to the present day. With a lecture on tattoos, mindfulness, colouring in of...
Five things you need to know today
Museum Takeover today!
Inverleith Neighbourhood Partnership
Last chance to see Photography a Victorian Sensation
O Taste and See: Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers in concert
Edinburgh Steiner School Christmas Market on Saturday
Museum Takeover Day in England means that young...
Ongoing strike at the National Museum of Scotland
Staff at the National Museum of Scotland are on strike until 30 August and this means that some parts of the Museum and the National War Museum will be closed to the public all...
Photography from the Victorian era
This June there will be a major exhibition staged at the National Museum of Scotland displaying all sorts of images taken in the 19th century and explaining how the Victorians were crazy about photos.It...
Chef is up for a challenge!
A big challenge is looming for one Edinburgh chef who tomorrow night is due to serve up a three course meal to an audience of discerning experts at Scotland’s foodie equivalent of the Oscars.The catering...
