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Workshop resources

Here you'll find resources to download for our workshops at National Museum of Scotland.

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Graphic Design: Hijack the Map

Create a ‘guerrilla map’ of our galleries with expert guidance from O-Street graphic designers. In two half-day sessions, respond to a brief and follow the design process, from research phase through development, to implementation and presentation.

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Amazing Animal Adaptations

Why might a leopard change its spots? How does an elephant avoid sunburn? Answer these questions and more in our active, hands-on workshop.

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Create your own exhibition

Create your own exhibition is a new, cross-curricular workshop that helps develop skills in literacy, expressive arts, technologies, social sciences and enterprise.

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Life and Death in Ancient Egypt

Disaster has struck in ancient Egypt! The River Nile hasn’t flooded and the harvest may fail. Help us lift the curse.

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Supermassive Space

Is there anything out there? Explore how scientific developments have allowed us to see further into space and further back in time than ever before.

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Space Explorers

How do we look into space and what do we see there? How do meteorites from space end up on Earth? Discover the answers when you handle real meteorites, build your own telescope and plot a star chart.

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Exploring Evidence

Become an investigator for the day and put your thinking skills to the test. Explore real and replica objects from our handling collections, then tell us what you see, think.

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