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Curators are ... including backing national repatriation legislation, which became law in 1990. Today more than 5,000 objects taken in the 1897 raid are held in museums around the world rather ...
The statue, viewable at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, the flagship museum of National Museums Scotland ... Before her research, curators at NMS had interpreted the statue as ...
How do curators choose? And what does the choice say about them, their museums, their nations and science? Samuel Alberti, director of collections at National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh ...
It is led by National Museums Scotland in collaboration with Sabhal ... project Tha sgeul ri innse and to support the initiative of curators to set the record straight and to recover the stories.
a bi-lingual road sign from Skye and a handmade crogan - or earthenware pot - are among the items being reviewed in a new project launched by National Museums Scotland and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig ...
Anna Groundwater, a curator at National Museums Scotland, talked about the particular appeal of pieces related to Mary, Queen of Scots. Jewels dating to the Scottish Renaissance can help convey ...
The National Museums Scotland has acquired the Peebles Hoard, a collection of over 500 Bronze Age artifacts that remained hidden underground for 3,000 years. Discovered in 2020 near Peebles in the ...
When the National Galleries of Scotland ranked second only to the Sydney ... The Lausanne study, which surveyed and ranked 206 leading museums, theatres and opera houses around the world, examined ...
A team led by researchers at National Museums Scotland analysed the fossils of an adult and a juvenile Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, a mouse-sized mammal that lived about 166 million years ago ...