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.

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.

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

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

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’?