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Basics 2: Curation with Ashleigh Whiffin
In part two of Taxonomy Basics, Ashleigh Whiffin of National Museums Scotland brings us into the entomology collection to learn the fundamentals of curayion and preservation, including which pins to use, the importance of collection dataWhiffin, Ashleigh
curation, taxonomy, entomological collections, and entomology
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Cold War exhibition, Cold War, and GDR
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Book
Decoding the jewels: Renaissance jewellery in Scotland
For the first time, National Museums Scotland’s important collection of Renaissance jewellery from Scotland is considered together alongside significant jewels from the Royal Collection and elsewhere. The book was inspired by the acquisition by NMS of the extraordinary Fettercairn Jewel: the fine iconography of this exquisitely enamelled locket held coded...Groundwater, Anna
Stuarts, material culture, art history, jewellery history, Mary Queen of Scots, objects, Renaissance, and Scottish history
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Burning down the house: exploring the phenomenon of Early Neolithic ‘halls’ and their destruction
Honours the achievements of Professor Ian Ralston, Emeritus Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.Sheridan, J A
halls, Scotland, Early Neolithic buildings, destruction, and Britain and Ireland
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Journal article
Caridoid crustaceans from the Ballagan Formation (Tournaisian, Lower Carboniferous) of Willie's Hole, Chirnside, Scottish Borders, UK
The descriptions of two co-occurring cardioid crustaceans from the Ballagan Formation (Tournaisian, Lower Carboniferous) of Chirnside, Scottish Borders, help to resolve the taxonomy of the genus Tealliocaris. Tealliocaris robusta Peach, 1908 is assigned to Schramocaris to form S. robusta (Peach, 1908) comb. nov. on the basis of morphological characters such...Clark, Neil D L ; Ross, Andrew J
Scotland , Tealliocarididae , Crustacea , Mississippian , Eumalacostraca , and Tealliocaris
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Cold War, Cold War Museum, and Dresden
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
Cold War Museum, Cold War, and Dresden
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
NATO, Cold War, and Cold War label
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Cold War exhibition, medal, and Cold War
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
espionage, Cold War, and Cold War label
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the Military History Museum, DresdenNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Lecture
Galloway Hoard: Where Did the Silver Come From?
The Galloway Hoard is dominated by silver. Cutting-edge science can now trace sources of silver with greater accuracy than ever before. What might this reveal about Viking trading and raiding? The Viking Age is known for its silver treasures. The Galloway Hoard, buried around AD 900, was discovered by metal-detecting...Maldonado, Adrián ; Kershaw, Jane ; Magnusson, Sally
science and archaeology, burial practices, The Galloway Hoard, Viking Age Scotland, and silver treasures
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Book chapter
Materialising Mary in a museum: Marian objects and authenticity
There are few verified bodily relics pertaining to Mary, and certainly not any resulting from her execution. A fire was burning at the behest of the Elizabethan government even before her head left her body, and her blood-stained clothing was consigned immediately to it. However, over the longer term these...Groundwater, Anna
Scottish History, gender history , Mary Queen of Scots , history of objects and material culture, media and heritage studies , and community memory
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Book chapter
Collecting an exhibiting Marian objects in nineteenth-century Britain
Marian objects were collected, exhibited and written about throughout the nineteenth century and held a fascination for scholars and the public alike. Yet due to their status as highly prized collectibles, very few of these Marian 'relics' were acquired for Scotland's national museum in Edinburgh.1 So who was collecting Mary...Holder, Julie
Scottish History, community memory , Mary Queen of Scots, history of objects and material culture, media and heritage studies, and gender history
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Book chapter
"To no one Nation has been given the Monopoly of Genius" : Multiple Nationalisms at the National Museum of Scotland, a Director’s View
In 1857, George Wilson, Regius Professor of Science and Technology at the University of Edinburgh,laid out a vision for a new museum under his directorship, the Industrial Museum (today the National Museum) of Scotland.Though formed in the context of Britain’s imperial ambitions, the institution Wilson envisaged also seemed to speak...Breward, Christopher
Scotland, culture, philosophy, George Wilson, colonialism , museum vision, imperialism, and national museums
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Interactive resource
List of Extinct Birds in the Holocene
This is a unique list of bird species that have died out during the last 11,700 years of the Holocene, including English and Swedish names as well as references to the formal descriptions of the taxa. The taxonomy and sequence largely follows IOC when applicable, with priority given to the...Asplund, G ; Stervander, Martin ; Jirle, E ; M, Lagerqvist
extinction, bird species, Holocene, bird families, taxonomy, and genera
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy museumNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Berlin, Cold War, German Spy museum , and Berlin Wall
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy Museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photograph from fieldwork undertaken at the German Spy museumNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Objects
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Object
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, Object, and Label
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Objects
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Objects
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Berlin, Cold War, and Exhibition
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Espionage, German Spy Museum, Berlin, Cold War, and Object
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Object, Berlin, Cold War, German Spy Museum, and Espionage
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Photographs from fieldwork undertaken at German Spy museum, BerlinNational Museums Scotland ; Gledhill, Jim
Object, Label, Berlin, Cold War, Espionage, and German Spy Museum