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Get free entry to all our exhibitions including this year’s interactive blockbuster ‘Game On’ 🎮 , an exhibition you will want to visit time and time again. | National Museums Scotland

Get free entry to all our exhibitions including this year’s interactive blockbuster ‘Game On’ 🎮 , an exhibition you will want to visit time and time again. | National Museums Scotland

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A reminder that the National Museum of Scotland is free and open to everyone. Come inside to: 👩‍👧 Entertain the family 🤩 Explore world-class collections ☕ Relax with a coffee ☔ Escape the rain 🤳 Take selfies in style 🏰 Get the best views of Edinburgh Castle from our roof terrace We’re open 10:00-17:00 daily, with exceptions of dates below: • Closed on 25 December • Open 12:00-17:00 on 26 December and 1 January https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/ | National Museums Scotland

A reminder that the National Museum of Scotland is free and open to everyone. Come inside to: 👩‍👧 Entertain the family 🤩 Explore world-class collections ☕ Relax with a coffee ☔ Escape the rain 🤳 Take selfies in style 🏰 Get the best views of Edinburgh Castle from our roof terrace We’re open 10:00-17:00 daily, with exceptions of dates below: • Closed on 25 December • Open 12:00-17:00 on 26 December and 1 January https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/ | National Museums Scotland

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Need inspiration? The National Museum of Scotland is here for you. Open daily 10:00–17:00 Free entry | National Museums Scotland

Need inspiration? The National Museum of Scotland is here for you. Open daily 10:00–17:00 Free entry | National Museums Scotland

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Items from the Galloway Hoard are now on display at the National Museum of Scotland! But what is the Hoard, and why is it so important that we save it? In this film, Dr Martin Goldberg, Senior Curator of Early Medieval and Viking Collections, explains how the Hoard can help unlock secrets of the Viking Age – and what you can do to help. To save the Hoard for the nation we must raise £1.98million by 12 November 2017. Find out more and donate at www.nms.ac.uk/hoard | National Museums Scotland

Items from the Galloway Hoard are now on display at the National Museum of Scotland! But what is the Hoard, and why is it so important that we save it? In this film, Dr Martin Goldberg, Senior Curator of Early Medieval and Viking Collections, explains how the Hoard can help unlock secrets of the Viking Age – and what you can do to help. To save the Hoard for the nation we must raise £1.98million by 12 November 2017. Find out more and donate at www.nms.ac.uk/hoard | National Museums Scotland

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That inspiration you were looking for? You can always find it at the National Museum of Scotland. | National Museums Scotland

That inspiration you were looking for? You can always find it at the National Museum of Scotland. | National Museums Scotland

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Introducing our new monthly video series: Museum Role Call! Get to know people from across our museums, the spaces they work in and the objects they are inspired by. In each episode we bump into someone at work and follow them around asking questions which range from Very, Very Professional to A Little Bit Silly. Episode 1 drops on Friday 10 March! | National Museums Scotland

Introducing our new monthly video series: Museum Role Call! Get to know people from across our museums, the spaces they work in and the objects they are inspired by. In each episode we bump into someone at work and follow them around asking questions which range from Very, Very Professional to A Little Bit Silly. Episode 1 drops on Friday 10 March! | National Museums Scotland

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The Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure is now on at the National Museum of Scotland. Bringing together the richest collection of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, this internationally significant hoard is transforming our understanding of Scotland’s connections with the wider world during this period. Free with pre-booked museum entry. | National Museums Scotland

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What better way to celebrate the bard than by being flung aboot at the Big Burns Ceilidh? 💃 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📍The Grand Gallery, National Museum of Scotland | National Museums Scotland

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We’re getting ready to reopen the National Museum of Scotland for you tomorrow morning. See you soon. | National Museums Scotland

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10:00 - doors open at the National Museum of Scotland. 10:02 - early birds catch the milling-around-the-museum worm 🥇 We’re open and free for all of your mooching needs, from 10am every day. Monkeys: Our Primate Family - freshly open last weekend! - is ripe for an early morning wander. 🐵 Book your tickets: https://my.nms.ac.uk/events/monkeys?hideDate | National Museums Scotland

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The island of Eigg passed into community ownership on this day in 1997. We collected a drum made and used by writer and activist Alastair McIntosh in the campaign for the Eigg buyout in 1997. Explore more in this blog, which considers how contemporary collecting can tell stories about shifting patterns of land ownership in Scotland, and the impact on communities, wildlife and landscape. https://blog.nms.ac.uk/2018/12/03/collecting-the-present-land-reform-in-eigg-and-ulva/ | National Museums Scot

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An epic journey into the past! Celts at the National Museum of Scotland now open! | National Museums Scotland

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….And that’s a wrap! (Almost) We’re not quite at the end, but enjoy National Museums Scotland’s 2025 in a nutshell 🥜🎁 | National Museums Scotland

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Every 30 November we celebrate St Andrew’s Day in Scotland. But - who was St Andrew, and what legacy did he leave behind? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In Christian belief, Andrew a fisherman who became one of Jesus’s twelve disciples. After his death in modern-day Greece, it was believed that Andrew’s relics were brought to Scotland by St Rule, to the place now known as St Andrews. St Andrews quickly became a hotspot for pilgrimage. Pilgrims could show they had travelled to see the relics through keepsakes su

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Come and see the largest sarcolite crystal* in the world, at the National Museum of Scotland. This tiny-but-very-big-actually crystal is the largest known specimen of sarcolite, a very rare mineral born from fire. To grow sarcolite, you need volcanic activity generating heat and altering nearby limestones. This is known as contact metamorphism. 🌋 Sarcolite was first discovered in around 1800 on Mount Vesuvius by Dr William Thomason (1761-1806). When he died, his mineral collection was sent to t

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It’s been 50 years since G-BOAA Concorde’s first commercial flight ✈️ On 21 January 1976, Alpha Alpha flew from London to Bahrain. On the same day, an Air France Concorde flew from Paris to Rio. In November 1962, Britain and France worked together on the first supersonic passenger plane. It became known as ‘Concorde’ in 1967 after the French President Charles de Gaulle used the word, to refer to the project during a speech. In French, concorde means agreement or treaty 🤝 Between 1976 and 2003,

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These collection features reveal the stories behind treasures on display in the Celts exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. Explore here: http://bit.ly/ExploreCelts | National Museums Scotland

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‘Sadly we can’t really change our colonial past, but I think we can engage with it differently. Okolo is my contribution to that, definitely’. Scottish-Nigerian artist Nkem Okwechime has been researching the African collections at National Museums Scotland - exploring the crossovers between European and West African identities. The project culminates in a new installation: Okolo. Okolo reflects Nkem’s alter ego, and explores themes of memory, identity and cultural inheritance. It also features a

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Trick or treat? 🎃 The birthstone for October is the wonderful, mystical opal. They are a TREAT for the eyes, and their colour is caused by a TRICK of the light. This array of precious natural opals show a shimmering display of different varieties of the mineraloid. Happy birthday to all you October birthdays out there - hope your day is sparkly 🎂 | National Museums Scotland

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Would you rather meet 100 rodent-sized stegosaurs, or one stegosaur-sized rodent? 🐀 We ask experts the important questions. After her research on Jurassic-era mammals hit the papers, we caught up with our Palaeobiology Research Associate, Elsa Panciroli to get her expert opinion 🗣️ Elsa’s research interests include the anatomy and evolution of extinct animals, and can often be found on digs around Scotland 🦣 In 2016 she was part of a group who discovered a juvenile Jurassic rodent (Krusatodon

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December’s birthstone is Tanzanite ✨ It was known as blue zoisite until it had a rebrand in the 1960s. Remember: it’s only Tanzanite if it comes from the Tanzanite region of Tanzania, otherwise it’s just sparkling zoisite. Happy birthday if this is your birthstone! 🥳 | National Museums Scotland

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You have our full permission to stare into space in Our Earth in Space gallery 🌍 The dizzying display of space-themed objects at the National Museum of Scotland helps us to understand our place in the universe. Our Grand Gallery is playing host to the team at @edscifest over the next couple of weeks, so top off your visit by nipping down to say hello. Check out the link in our bio for more information about their programme, which lifts off tomorrow 🚀 | National Museums Scotland

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This hood was discovered in a bog in Orkney in 1867. It was buried, perhaps lost, in the ground around 1500 years ago. Textiles rarely survive, so it's ✨ quite remarkable ✨ that this woolen garment is completely intact. It’s the only complete piece of clothing to survive from before the medieval period in Scotland. Research has shown that it likely belonged to a child and was made using an older garment that was carefully recycled, perhaps from an older relative. See it on display in the Early P

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We’ve just uncovered yet another secret from the Galloway Hoard 🤯 And this one might tell us who once owned the Viking-Age treasure. Researchers’ most recent revelation decodes the inscription on this silver arm ring. The Old English runes inside read: DIS IS ЇIGNA ˑFˑ with one proposed translation as ‘this is the community’s wealth’. Fresh off this discovery, the Galloway Hoard will be on display across the world at the South Australian Museum from Sat 8 Feb 🌏 Wherever you are, discover the l

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Every hour, on the hour, you’ll likely find a crowd by the Millennium Clock Tower 🕰️ It stands at over 10 metres high, and its four sections echo parts of a medieval cathedral: ⚰️ the Crypt: an underground room or vault beneath a church ⛪ the Nave: the central part of a church building 🔔 the Belfry: the part of a bell tower or steeple where bells are housed 🏰 the Spire: a tapering structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower Inside the clock, there’s representations of disaste

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In 2014, a metal detectorist in Dumfries and Galloway made a remarkable discovery. Buried in the ground, hidden for more than a thousand years, was a wealth of silver and gold riches, jewellery and treasure. It’s known today as the Galloway Hoard, and nothing like it has ever been found in Britain before. Now we need to save the Hoard for the nation, and to do that we need your help. To keep the Hoard together and preserve it for future generations, we need to raise £1.98 million – and we only h

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Our advice for the Grand Gallery? Look down 👀 The glass roof may be a Victorian showstopper, but the floor of the Grand Gallery contains beauty millions of years in the making. The stone used for the floor of the Grand Gallery is made up of fossils. Look closely on the ground, and you can see ammonite fossils, belemnites, and sea sponges. Once you've spotted one, you’ll spot many. They're ⭐ everywhere ⭐ | National Museums Scotland

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