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Order your gift of Membership online and your gift email will arrive within an hour.
Buy todayTreat your friends and family to a year of unlimited free entry to all our museums and world-class exhibitions, exclusive Member events and experiences and so much more, all while supporting the vital work of our museums.
Share the stories behind objects that have shaped our world with the gift of Membership today.
They will also get:
Family Membership is for 2 adults and 3 children under the age of 16, or 1 adult and 4 children; cards issued for the adults only. Under 5s go free at National Museum of Flight, National Museum of Rural Life and National War Museum.
Joint Membership is for two named friends or family members to visit together or separately, each with their own card.
Guest Membership is for a named individual to bring along any guest.
Individual Membership is for the named individual on the Membership card.
Full-time Student Membership is for full-time students. Please include proof of your eligibility with your application.
Disabled Membership is for one disabled adult with a carer/companion. This Membership is to encourage access for anyone who is presented with a barrier in visiting our museums due to a disability. Please include proof of your eligibility with your application. More information on eligibility below.
Students
This Membership is for anyone in full-time education. We accept the following as proof of concessionary status:
Disabled
This Membership is for anyone who is presented with a barrier in visiting our museums due to a disability.
The eligibility criteria are kept under review and may be updated from time to time. See below for what we currently accept:
Upon joining and in order to validate your Membership, we ask that you please send us a photo/scan of your proof of concessionary status to membershipconcessions@nms.ac.uk. Please note this will only be used to check your eligibility, once your application is complete the data will be destroyed/deleted.
Further information about access for disabled visitors can be found for each of our museums here: National Museum of Scotland, National Museum of Flight, National Museum of Rural Life and the National War Museum.
You will receive an email for yourself as purchaser and an email, with a gift code to activate the Membership, to forward to the recipient.
To activate the Membership:
A welcome pack will then be sent to them within 10 working days and they will be able to access their Member benefits online immediately.
Gift Memberships start when the recipient activates their Membership online.
Gift Membership emails are only sent to the purchaser so that you can forward the email to the recipient at a time of your choosing.
Purchase any of our Gift Memberships in our Online Shop, or alternatively you can buy Gift Memberships through your National Museums Scotland account.
You can buy in person in any of our shops and at the information or ticket desks.
To buy your Membership by phone with a credit/debit card, please call us between 09:30-16:30 Mon-Fri on 0131 247 4294.
Membership Team
