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Our Global Arts, Cultures and Design collections include internationally important material from across the world.

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This display showcased the Soyuz spacecraft used for European Space Agency Astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia Mission to the International Space Station.

This exhibition explored the real story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the rise and fall of the Jacobites.

Supporters from around the world joined together to help us raise the £1.98 million required to save the Galloway Hoard for the nation.

In it's 51st year, this prestigious photography event showcased the very best in nature photography.

Warren Elsmore and his team displayed some of their most beautiful and intricate mini-buildings and models in our Grand Gallery.

This ground-breaking exhibition celebrated the exceptional creativity and skill which make Britain a world leader in modern silver.

This exhibition showcased the pioneers of photography, and how the Victorian craze for the photograph transformed the way we capture images.

This small exhibition focused on four of the finest porcelain artists working in Japan in the late 19th century.

This 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.

Go full circle at our brand new big event at the National Museum of Flight.

Join us for an awesome weekend of hands-on LEGO® at the National Museum of Flight, with lots to see and do for all ages.

Discover how Highland dress was adapted in the Georgian period into the iconic and fashionable symbol of Scotland we know today.

In 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.

This unique decorated Iron Age cap would have adorned a highly prized pony.

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Napier’s ‘bones’ or ‘rods’ are just one of the methods invented by the Edinburgh-born Renaissance scholar John Napier to speed up calculations.

Join us for an evening of bright and vivid music from the Scottish Ensemble in the light-filled setting of the Grand Gallery.

These 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.

Discover helpful resources to support the planet.

This picture shows a turning point during the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

These silver spoons were bought by Assistant Surgeon Stewart Chisholm using prize money awarded to him for his service at Waterloo.

Meet 'the good ladies' of bird collecting, two pioneering ornithologists whose work is still influential today.

Aberdeen-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.

Our Scotland galleries guide you from the Palaeolithic era to the present day, from the earliest cultures to space age science, prehistory to pop culture.

We 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.

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Find out what a hoard is, how historians and archaeologists have interpreted them, and why the Galloway Hoard is truly unique.

The panel was given to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1865 by Sir James Young Simpson.

Discovering the origins of the some of the world's most famous board games