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Museum tours and trails

Explore museum highlights and discover new objects, themes and stories

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Pick from our selection of tours and trails to help guide and inspire your visit to the National Museum of Scotland.

Just launched: South Asian Stories trail

A collaborative trail at the National Museum of Scotland on stories of South Asian cultural and religious life.

South Asian Stories trail

Audio tours and trails

With our partners at Smartify, we have developed a series of free audio tours accessible through their app. These tours can be enjoyed in the museum where you can follow at your own pace by scanning a QR code when you arrive. Or dive in right now and learn more about our collections wherever you are.

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Highlights Audio Tour

Discover some of the highlights of our collections introduced by the voices of the museum team as they reveal the stories behind our most iconic objects. Starting in the atmospheric Grand Gallery the tour takes you through the museum stopping at must-see exhibits along the way.

Explore our highlights

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LGBTQIA+ Hidden Histories Audio Trail

Discover LGBTQIA+ stories across our collections. This trail is a collaboration between young people from Impact Arts, LGBT Youth Scotland and our Scotland 365 youth engagement team.

LGBTQIA+ Trail