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Our Global Arts, Cultures and Design collections include internationally important material from across the world.
ViewThis display showcased the Soyuz spacecraft used for European Space Agency Astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia Mission to the International Space Station.
ViewThis exhibition explored the real story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the rise and fall of the Jacobites.
ViewSupporters from around the world joined together to help us raise the £1.98 million required to save the Galloway Hoard for the nation.
ViewIn it's 51st year, this prestigious photography event showcased the very best in nature photography.
ViewWarren Elsmore and his team displayed some of their most beautiful and intricate mini-buildings and models in our Grand Gallery.
ViewThis ground-breaking exhibition celebrated the exceptional creativity and skill which make Britain a world leader in modern silver.
ViewThis exhibition showcased the pioneers of photography, and how the Victorian craze for the photograph transformed the way we capture images.
ViewThis small exhibition focused on four of the finest porcelain artists working in Japan in the late 19th century.
ViewThis exhibition revealed the extraordinary story of the Ming dynasty, a period of China’s history marked by economic strength and a dramatic flourishing of the arts.
ViewJoin us for an awesome weekend of hands-on LEGO® at the National Museum of Flight, with lots to see and do for all ages.
ViewIn the 17th and 18th centuries, Scotland did not have the health provisions that we have today and physicians were few and far between. Discover what remedies and cures and beliefs people used to treat illnesses and why some were more effective than others.
ViewDiscover how Highland dress was adapted in the Georgian period into the iconic and fashionable symbol of Scotland we know today.
ViewNapier’s ‘bones’ or ‘rods’ are just one of the methods invented by the Edinburgh-born Renaissance scholar John Napier to speed up calculations.
ViewJoin us for an evening of bright and vivid music from the Scottish Ensemble in the light-filled setting of the Grand Gallery.
ViewThese simple-looking glasses hold a secret power: they allow people with red-green colour blindness to experience colours which they would normally be unable to see.
ViewThis picture shows a turning point during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
ViewThese silver spoons were bought by Assistant Surgeon Stewart Chisholm using prize money awarded to him for his service at Waterloo.
ViewMeet 'the good ladies' of bird collecting, two pioneering ornithologists whose work is still influential today.
ViewAberdeen-born Annie Pirie was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to study Egyptology. Discover how this trained artist and pioneering archaeologist has left a lasting legacy.
ViewOur Scotland galleries guide you from the Palaeolithic era to the present day, from the earliest cultures to space age science, prehistory to pop culture.
ViewWe are delighted to invite National Museums Scotland Members and Patrons to an exclusive Preview Day of Game On before the exhibition opens to the public.
ViewFind out what a hoard is, how historians and archaeologists have interpreted them, and why the Galloway Hoard is truly unique.
ViewThe panel was given to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1865 by Sir James Young Simpson.
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