As the first cloned mammal ever to be created from an adult cell, Dolly the sheep's birth was of huge excitement both to the scientific world and to the public.

Your journey of discovery starts here...

Fly across Scotland with Dolly the sheep, hitch a ride to space on a rocket and collect museum objects along the way.

Recreate your favourite museum objects and places using the LEGO® you have at home!

See our shearer at work with our Scottish Blackface sheep and enjoy wool-themed family crafts and activities.

Our working farm at the National Museum of Rural Life is home to Ayrshire, Aberdeen Angus and Highland cattle, Tamworth pigs, sheep, hens and Clydesdale horses.

Communications, transport, industry, engineering, energy and medicine: how have scientific and technological inventions changed our lives?

The Making Circles schools project invited children to be inspired by National Museums Scotland’s collections to create new Circular Economy products.

Make the most of your visit with our museum highlights. Your rural adventure starts here!

Sow the seeds of curiosity with a family visit to our museum and historic working farm.

On 3 December 1917, a little after 13:00, a large fireball was seen to cross southern Scotland. A short time later, an explosion was heard and four objects were seen or heard to crash to the ground around the towns of Coupar Angus and Blairgowrie in the Strathmore area of central Scotland.

The Wester Kittochside Farm at National Museum of Rural Life was owned and run by the Reid family for more than 400 years.

During and directly after the Second World War, the Reid family at Wester Kittochside, East Kilbride employed both Italian and German prisoners of war.

Sophie Goggins is Senior Curator of Biomedical Science

What inspires you in our museums? Get creative and join our month-long online art challenge at National Museums Scotland!

Discover the life of the National Bard through the collections of National Museums Scotland.

The term ‘Turkey red’ applies not to the colour but rather to the process that was used to create the bright and fast red that is seen in the National Museums Scotland Turkey Red Collection. The process was complex, repetitive and expensive, but the end product enjoyed a wide popularity and was the most profitable of all the cotton finishing sectors in the nineteenth-century textile industry.

‘Turkey red’ is a complex dyeing process which produced a bright, fast red. Find out more about this centuries old process.

This strange-looking device was the first model of telephone to go on sale. But can its creator, Alexander Graham Bell, truly lay claim to the title ‘inventor of the telephone’?