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- The pioneering women of ornithology
- The incredible migration of the Monarch Butterfly
- Discovering dinosaur bones on a Scottish island
- Falling to earth: The Chelyabinsk Meteorite
- Where do taxidermy animals come from?
- The mysterious 15 million year gap in our evolution
- The enigmatic origin of a beautiful igneous rock
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- The glass artists who mastered museum models
- Woolly mammoths in Scotland and beyond
Schools Resources
- Museum Maker: Busy Blue Tit
- Museum Maker: How to draw the Hunterston brooch
- Museum Maker: How to make paper art
- Ancient Egyptian maths resources
- Romans Trail
- Rewilding Trail
- Dinosaur workshop - accompanying resources
- Lewis’s Scottish Adventure Trail
- A World of Maths Trail
- Farm Trail
- Harald's Viking Quest
- Second World War: Meet the WAAF workshop - accompanying resources
- Museum Maker: How to make an owl badge
- Make a pitfall trap
- Ancient Egypt workshop - accompanying resources
- Cryptography challenge
- Dinosaurs Trail
- Be a famous fashion designer like Jean Muir
- Make your own Lewis chess piece
- Fantastic Flying Forces workshop - accompanying resources
- Make your own Celtic torc
- Biodiversity workshop - accompanying resources
- Museum Maker: Make a champion’s rosette
- Viking activities to try at home
- Museum Maker: Bird Safari
- Museum Maker: How to draw a King Penguin
- Inventors and Inventions
- Draw a dinosaur or mammoth
- Make an animal mask
- Colour in the collections
- Hedjet's Ancient Egyptian Adventure Trail
- Make a Recyclesaurus
- Museum Maker: How to draw an Egyptian Coffin
- Make your own bunting
- Museum Stories with Chief Chebe
- Galloway Hoard: learning resources
- The Cold War
- The Romans digital session- accompanying resources
- Meet the Vikings digital session - accompanying resources
Schools Sessions
- Injecting Hope: The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine exhibition visit
- Cold War Scotland exhibition visit
- Museum Stories: Ancient Egypt
- A Dinosaur Adventure
- National Museum of Flight self-led visit
- National War Museum self-led visit
- National Museum of Rural Life self-led visit
- National Museum of Scotland self-led visit
- Museum Explorer
- Mini Engineers
- Viking Explorer
- Energy and Sustainability
- Egypt Explorer
- Animal Adaptations
- An Egyptian Adventure
- Museum on the Move - National Museum of Scotland
- Second World War: Meet the WAAF
- Meet the Vikings
- Fantastic Flying Forces - digital session
- Dinosaurs!
- Biodiversity: Life in Scotland
- Ancient Egypt: Mummification and the Afterlife
- The Romans
- Transport
- Second World War Scotland
- Museum on the Move - National Museum of Flight
- Flying Friction
- First World War Aviation
- Fantastic Flying Forces
- Second World War: Evacuees
- Ice Cream Making
- Farm to Fork
- Butter Making
- Second World War Explorer
- Roman Explorer
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- From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals
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- Ovipositor of sawflies for the design and manufacture of enhanced surgical tools
- Illuminating the ‘dark age’ of pterosaur evolution: an exceptional skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland
- Thalattosuchia: neurosensory development during a land-to-water evolutionary transition
- Big Cat Biogeography, Morphology, and Climate Change
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- Democratising knowledge: Chambers's Encyclopaedia
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- Reveal and Connect: African and Caribbean Collections in Scottish Museums
- Buying Power: British Archaeology and the Antiquities Market in Egypt and Sudan 1880 - 1939
- People and Plants
- Exchange: Community-Led Collections Research
- Egypt's Dispersed Heritage
- WITH Coastal Style
- Revealing the Layers: the Umbrian Madonna and Child
- Colouring the Nation
- African Commemorative Textiles Project with Edinburgh College of Art
- Scottish collectors and collecting in central Africa, 1870–1930
- African Barkcloth: Tradition, Innovation and Change
- The Fabric of Life: Early Polynesian barkcloth in context
- Imagining ancient Egypt in the age of empire: Identity and power in Scottish museum displays of Egyptian objects, 1860 to 1930
- Shaping Taste, Building Knowledge: Collecting China in Scotland, in the early 20th Century
- Imagining the Pacific in Scotland in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries: Collectors and Collections, Museums and Universities
- Understanding colour in Renaissance embroidery: new analytical approaches
- Tibetan Collections in Scottish Museums 1890-1930: A Critical Historiography of Missionary and Military Intent
- British Collecting in Ethiopia 1769 to 1960: Explorers, Missionaries, Military Expeditions, and Royal Gifting
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- The Matter of Slavery in Scotland
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Prehistoric Gold in Britain
- Late Bronze Age penannular ‘hair ring’ from Cladh Hallan, South Uist
- Gold lunulae from Harlyn Bay, Cornwall
- The Knowes of Trotty discs
- Ystradowen finger ingot
- The Culduthel wristguard rivet caps
- The Colaton Raleigh Hoard, Devon
- The Heyope Hoard
- Gold-bound spearheads from Carnoustie and Pyotdykes
- Late Bronze Age cup-ended ornament from Skye
- The Minch torc: a treasure from the deep
- The Adabrock bead
- Late Bronze Age bracelets from Hillhead, Caithness
- The Douglas Nugget, Britain's largest gold nugget
- Late Bronze Age gold hoard from Cae Capel Eithin (Gaerwen), Anglesey, Wales
- The Whitefarland Hoard, Arran
- Scotland's Archaeological Human Remains Collections
- Silver, Status and Society
- Wha' bears a blade for Scotland?
- Trading Places
- The Elect and the Damned: the material culture of belief in post-Reformation Scotland, 1560-1750
- Material Spirits: Objects, Past and Landscape in Contemporary Scottish Whisky
- Dress and the individual in medieval Scotland, 1200–1600
- Coinage, landscape and society in the borderlands: economy, politics and identity in Scotland and northern England, 1136-1603
- The Material Culture of Mass Politics in Scotland, c. 1815 - c. 1914
- Loyal Exchange: the material and visual culture of Jacobite exile, 1716-60
- Collecting the Nation: Scottish history, patriotism and antiquarianism after Scott, (1832-91)
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