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Common Cause: Commonwealth Scots and the Great War
Emigration has been an ever-present theme in the story of Scotland. In 1914, as the world prepared for war, thousands of men enlisted in Scotland for military service, and across the British empire and beyond thousands more of Scottish birth and descent joined up. As optimism gave way to the...Allan, Stuart ; Forsyth, David S
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V&A Dundee
The bold architecture of this new museum makes a statement, but what's on offer inside?Huxtable, Sally-Anne
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Cutting edge consevation
In the first of a new series looking behind the scenes as the National Museum of Scotland prepares to open ten new galleries, Isabell Wagner talks about recent conservation work she has been carrying out on a silver-gilt travelling service which belonged to Napoleon's sister.Wagner, Isabell
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Book chapter
Energy well spent: practical approaches to contemporary collecting at the National Museum of Scotland
Cet ouvrage réunit les interventions du séminaire "Patrimoine contemporain : Science, technique, culture et société" qui s'est tenu au musée des Arts et Métiers de 2012 à 2015. Les membres de ce séminaire ont mené de multiples réflexions sur les questions - à la fois théoriques et pratiques - soulevées...Cox, Elsa
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Collecting and displaying Japanese culture in 19th-century Scotland
Disciplinary boundaries are inevitable within a complex academic system and as those boundaries shift with time, the problem of speaking across them only increases. The scholars today who study the Japanese collections held by British museums are primarily art historians or archaeologists, but the context in which these collections were...Buckland, Rosina
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Final word: Glenmorangie Research Project
Dr Adrián Maldondo, the new Glenmorangie Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland, talks to History Scotland about the future of the project, which was established in 2008 and has uncovered many new insights into Scotland's medieval past.Maldonado, Adrián
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Book chapter
Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites: Narrative of an Exhibition
The history of the exiled Stuart dynasty and their supporters, known as Jacobites, has held an enduring and romantic fascination for generations. These newly commissioned essays from historians and curators from a variety of disciplines present the story of the Jacobites through the prism of the surviving material and visual...Forsyth, David S
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Conference paper (published)
Assessment of materials used for anoxic micro-environments
Carrió, Vicen ; Stevenson, Suzie
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Journal article
John Muir Wood: Calotypist
The Scottish Society of Photography has been publishing writing on photography for over thirty years. During this time we have built up a substantial archive of articles and reviews. This feature, the first in a series that looks to give a new lease of life to many of those articles,...Morrison-Low, A D
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A passion for glass. The Dan Klein & Alan J. Poole catalogue of the glass collection
A dazzling collection of modern glass was gifted to National Museums Scotland by Dan Klein and Alan J. Poole in 2009. Dan and Alan began collecting in the late 1970s and over the subsequent thirty years assembled one of the most comprehensive collections of modern glass, predominately British and Irish....Watban, Rose
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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites: a souvenir guide
Produced for the major new exhibition Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites at the National Museum of Scotland 23 June - 12 November 2017, this souvenir guide showcases many of the exhibition's treasures, brought together from all over Europe. The book takes the reader around the exhibition under these headings:...Forsyth, David S
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Moving image
Scotland the Brave: cultural identity on a global stage. (Concurrent session from the Museums Association 2016 Conference in Glasgow on Tuesday 8th of November)
Can Scottish museums remain neutral and still reflect their communities?Forsyth, David S ; Joy, Annika ; Morrison, John
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Shipwreck ceramics: a major research resource
Haggarty, George
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Pacific collections in Scottish museums: unlocking their knowledge and potential
Eve Haddow and Chantal Knowles share the results of a major review of Pacific collections held by museums across the countryHaddow, Eve
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Book chapter
The world to Edinburgh: The National Museum of Scotland through the ages
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the National Museum of Scotland this book showcases over 100 of its treasures, from the departments of Scottish History and Archaeology, Art and Design, Science and Technology, Natural Sciences and World CulturesLidchi, Henrietta
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Gifts for a Jacobite prince
David S Forsyth explores the history of three18th-century objects which form the centrepiece of a major new Jacobite exhibitionForsyth, David S
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Conference paper (published)
Cybraphon: collecting the physical or the digital at National Museums Scotland?
In 2013, National Museums Scotland collected Cybraphon, an interactive autonomous internetconnected robot band, created in 2009 by artists’ collective and musicians FOUND. Cybraphon obsessively Googles itself every 15 seconds to see how popular it is. All Cybraphon activity rests in the hands of the online community and as such provides...Taubman, Alison
Cybraphon. Device art. Social media interaction. Digital culture. Museum collecting.
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Conference paper (published)
Chitenje: the production and use of printed cotton cloth in Malawi. In Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. Paper 888
‘To wear a commemorative cloth is to visually communicate that one has either a relationship with the person or event or identifies with the subject of the cloth’s design’ (Perani and Wolff 1999: 30) Historic links between Scotland and Malawi date back to the mid-1800s when Scottish missionary explorer David...Worden, Sarah
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John Napier and the Power of Ten
Phillipson, Tacye
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The Great Eight!: the National War Museum of Scotland
Watt, Patrick
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The Rezillo's Fender Precision bass guitar, 1970s
From the days of the dancehalls to the emergence of pop in an explosion of colour in the 60s, through the 70s and New Wave, Rip It Up will feature global stars and independent local heroes from pop's early days right up to today’s outstanding newcomers. Artists and bands to...Allen, Stephen
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Voxpop: what is the future for Blockbuster exhibitions?
Fears have been raised that the UK's leading museums may be unable to stage the major exhibitions that attract visitors from all over the world if there is a no-deal Brexit.Huxtable, Sally-Anne
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International network of scholars to explore the role of silver in Early Medieval Europe
A major grant awarded to National Museums Scotland will allow historians to explore the role that silver played in the emergence of the Early Medieval kingdoms of Europe.Blackwell, Alice
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Book chapter
Japanese sculpture: a response
'Modern Japananese sculpture' is a topic that has been studied very little in the Western world, and works made in this period (1868-present) are rarely seen outside of their native country. One of our tasks at the Henry Moore Institute is to look at areas of sculpture studies that are...Buckland, Rosina
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1.000.000 visitors in four months!
Tate, Jim ; McClean, Lynn
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A slim sword in his hand for battle: Weapons for a Jacobite Prince
The history of the exiled Stuart dynasty and their supporters, known as Jacobites, has held an enduring and romantic fascination for generations. These newly commissioned essays from historians and curators from a variety of disciplines present the story of the Jacobites through the prism of the surviving material and visual...Wyld, Helen ; Dalgleish, George
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Reconnecting with rural life: a 1950s dairy herd and other animals
The issue of keeping and presentation of live animals in agricultural and open-air museum has always been important, however, so far largely underestimated. The Szreniawa Conference on live animals is the first voice in the field of not only Polish but also international agricultural museology. The topic was consulted with...Edwards, Elaine
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The curious case of the Norrie's Law hoard fakes
Experts working at National Museums Scotland have uncovered a mysterious tale of stolen treasure and deception associated with two of the items in the Norrie's Law Pictish silver hoardGoldberg, D Martin
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Me and my research: shrouded in mystery
Maitland, Margaret
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Conference paper (published)
Object journeys: outreach work between National Museums Scotland and the Tlicho
Objects are always undertaking new journeys as they physically move with people, between people through exchange, and are used or engaged with by their makers, owners or users. These journeys diverge from the biographies of individuals or groups who are temporarily or transiently associated with them. The journeys that objects...Knowles, Chantal
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Preface [Scottish photography: the first thirty years]
This lavishly illustrated book discusses the relationship between art, science and technology which, around 1840, laid a fertile groundwork for photography to flourish in Scotland. It looks at the early professionals including DO Hill, Robert Adamson, James Valentine and George Washington Wilson. The book has been written by Dr Sara...Lidchi, Henrietta
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Bringing museums to life with science
Clare Meakin, science engagement manager for National Museums Scotland, on why the organisation is on tour teaching science and technology to pupilsMeakin, Clare
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National Museums Scotland
Next of Kin's flexible design allowed it to tour Scotland and unearth stories about the first world warSohn-Rethel, Jo
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Lamps for Robert Rowat 1902
The National Museum of Scotland reopened on the 29th July. Amongst the 832 objects featuring in Window on the World, a vast installation occupying the south wall of the Grand Gallery, are three lanterns designed by Mackintosh for 14 Kingsborough Gardens, Glasgow.Jackson, Stephen
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Objects as ambassadors: representing nation through museum exhibitions
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts...Knowles, Chantal
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Seeking eternity: 5,000 years of ancient Egyptian burial
While the ancient Egyptians’ hope for eternal life remained constant, their burial practices were ever-changing. Dr Margaret Maitland, senior curator at National Museums Scotland, charts the remarkable changes in Egyptian tombs and the extraordinary objects that filled them…Maitland, Margaret
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For the public, with the public, by the public – George Wilson and the Edinburgh Industrial University Museum
University museums have played a significant role in the development of science and engineering knowledge for a long time. The first professorship of technology at Edinburgh University was synonymous with the position of curator of the university’s newly founded Industrial Museum. The unique approach of George Wilson, who held the...Staubermann, Klaus
science, technology, public engagement, and university museum
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Recycled Objects: Exhibiting Africa in Scotland.
Those acts of assembling, juxtaposing and exhibiting objects, which constitute the western museum, have themselves been conceptualised as artistic processes which produce the museum as a form of ‘public art’ (Hein, 2006). Such an holistic concept is fundamentally geographical: the place and placement of objects creating new aesthetic and discursive...Swinney, Geoffrey N
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The legacy of nineteenth-century replicas for object cultural biographies: lessons in duplication from 1830s Fife
The St Andrews Sarcophagus and Norrie's Law hoard are two of the most important surviving Pictish relics from early medieval Scotland. The entanglement of their later biographies is also of international significance in its own right. Soon after discovery in nineteenth-century Fife, both sets of objects were subject, in 1839,...Foster, Sally M ; Blackwell, Alice ; Goldberg, D Martin
facsimiles, early photography, Norrie's Law hoard, St Andrews Sarcophagus, entanglement, and plaster casts
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Comment: Exhibition honours Commonwealth Scots
It is appropriate that Scotland’s links to the Commonwealth are in the public consciousness as the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War is marked.Allan, Stuart
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Book chapter
Catalogue entry: Mortlake Workshop, after Francis Cleyn (born in Rostock, 1582; died in London, 1658), designer, after Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502-1550) and Bernard van Orley (c.1492-c.1541) The Return of Sarah by the Egyptians, c.1658-60
The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts objects from the collections of a local landed family. The Pastons established one of the most extensive cabinets of rarities and curiosities in seventeenth-century England—it boasted no fewer than six hundred decorative art objects, including shell cups,...Wyld, Helen
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Unknown Japanese paintings in Scotland
There is a considerable number of interesting Japanese paintings in public collections across Scotland. For the large part they were acquired at the end of the 19th century by individuals interested in East Asian art, and were subsequently donated to public collections. The future holds the possibility that the owning...Buckland, Rosina
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Introduction [Age of Oil: Artwork by Sue Jane Taylor]
The book accompanies the multi-media exhibition on show at the National Museum of Scotland 21 July - 5 November 2017, featuring the artwork of Sue Jane Taylor. The artist is no stranger to extreme working environments, having worked for over thirty years recording the lives of workers in the North...Cox, Elsa ; Taubman, Alison
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Partnership is key to sharing treasures of the nation
Burns, Jilly
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How scientific instruments have changed hands
This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not...Morrison-Low, A D
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Qadscharische Bildfliesen im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin, exhibition catalogue
Das Ethnologische Museum besitzt 25 Fliesen, auf denen Szenen aus dem Alltag in Teheran um 1890 dargestellt sind: Läden im Basar, Handwerker, fliegende Händler und Garköche mit ihrer Kundschaft, Lastträger, Bettler und Derwische. In ihrer Art erinnern diese genrehaften Bilder an historische Fotografien. Unter Einbeziehung zahlreicher, bislang nicht gezeigter Objekte...Voigt, Friederike
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Photography: A Victorian sensation
The souvenir book of the exhibition Photography: A Victorian Sensation at National Museums Scotland June-November 2015. It highlights objects in National Museum Scotland's history of photography collections and describes the public excitement over early photography.Morrison-Low, A D
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Tales from the tent
Stable, Charles
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The colour purple: lithomarge artefacts in northern Britain
This paper revisits an artefact type, lithomarge beads, last studied 40 years ago by Stevenson and Collins (1976). The rare purple colour produced by the naturally occurring mixture of haematite and kaolinite is the key characteristic and made this material desirable. Lithomarge beads are widely distributed across Northern Britain, but...Goldberg, D Martin
colour, lithomarge, purple, Iron Age, jewellery, Early Medieval, and Roman
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‘Thanks to you the best has been made of a bad job’: Vere Gordon Childe and the Bronze Age cairn at Ri Cruin, Kilmartin, Argyll & Bute
Ri Cruin is one of the series of Early Bronze Age cairns that make up the well-known linear cemetery in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll. The aim of this short paper is to make more fully accessible and account of the work undertaken by Gordon Childe in the summer of 1936 when...Cowie, Trevor
Kilmartin Glen, cairn, Vere Gordon Childe, Bronze Age, Argyll, and Ri Cruin
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Celtic arts
In September the British Museum opens a major exhibition about Celts, which moves to the National Museum of Scotland in March next year. Julia Farley and Fraser Hunter (who edited the accompanying book) and Martin Goldberg and Ian Leins outline the background to what promises to be a spectacular show,...Farley, Julia ; Hunter, Fraser ; Goldberg, D Martin ; Leins, Ian
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Design-Archaeology: bringing a Pictish inspired drinking horn fitting to life
The Glenmorangie Early Medieval Research Project re-created objects from the period c.300-900AD in collaboration with artists,designers and makers. Contemporary skills and traditional craftswere used, informed directly from the archaeological evidence. This process of re-creation has brought these objects to life again, giving us insights into how they were made, experienced...Maxwell, Mhairi ; Goldberg, D Martin ; Gray, Jennifer
re-creation, design-archaeology, Authenticity, and Pictish-problem solving
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How can science be better communicated in museums?
Phillipson, Tacye
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Hieroglyphs from the North: Newcastle's early travellers in Egypt and their correspondence with Jean-Francois Champollion
A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who travelled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time...Maitland, Margaret
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Review of Anatomy Museum: death and the body displayed by Elizabeth Hallam
Sam Alberti dissects an accessible book on the ins and outs of displaying human remainsAlberti, S J M M
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Embroidered stories
Helen Wyld introduces an extraordinary collection of Scottish needlework which records lives that would otherwise have been forgotten.Wyld, Helen
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On the NMS Masterplan
Staubermann, Klaus
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Baroque Furniture in the Boulle Technique – Conservation, Science, History
In May 2011 the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum was home to an ambitious interdisciplinary conference focusing on the production, conservation and contextualisation of furniture in the Boulle technique. Featuring contributions from international authorities this beautifully and richly illustrated volume relays the content of the presentations given and discussions had in the course...King, Rachel ; Hacke, Ute ; Eikelmann, Renate
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Foreword [Scotland to the world : treasures from the National Museum of Scotland]
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the National Museum of Scotland this book showcases over 100 of its treasures, from the departments of Scottish History and Archaeology, Art and Design, Science and Technology, Natural Sciences and World CulturesRintoul, Gordon
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Focus on: biomedical interactives
Phillipson, Tacye
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Revolution and revitalization: the War of Independence and its aftermath (catalogue)
The catalogue accompanying the exhibition (On the Trails of the Iroquois) provides insights into the historical and cultural context of the exhibits and their makers. In addition, it also highlights the importance of the ethnographic collections held by museums today for an understanding of a fascinating people and their culture.Allan, Stuart
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The new Palaeobiology Store at National Museums Scotland
Ross, Andrew
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Evolution's missing chapter
Fraser, Nicholas C
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Knights of the Thistle: a royal quest for loyalty and identity
The history of the exiled Stuart dynasty and their supporters, known as Jacobites, has held an enduring and romantic fascination for generations. These newly commissioned essays from historians and curators* from a variety of disciplines present the story of the Jacobites through the prism of the surviving material and visual...McGill, Lyndsay
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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites
The history of the exiled Stuart dynasty and their supporters, known as Jacobites, has held an enduring and romantic fascination for generations. These newly commissioned essays from historians and curators from a variety of disciplines present the story of the Jacobites through the prism of the surviving material and visual... -
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A European record of the Nearctic species Nephrotoma saturalis wulpiana (Bergroth, 1888) (Dipter: Tipulidae) in Portugal
The circumstances of finding a second North American species of cranefly, Nephrotoma saturalis (Loew, 1863), in the Iberian Peninsula are given. The specimens are of the subspecies wulpiana (Bergroth, 1888), whose known distribution is in western North America.Hancock, E Geoffrey ; Kramer, J ; Lyszkowski, Richard M
North American species, Diptera, Nephrotoma, and Iberian Peninsula
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A new centre will celebrate our scientific heritage
Finding the right formula to bring the wonderful world of science to a wider audience, says Ali FloydFloyd, Ali
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Chauchitza at National Museums Scotland
This volume focuses on a formative period in the history and archaeology of northern Greece. The decade following 1912, when Thessaloniki became part of Greece, was a period marked by an extraordinary internationalism as a result of the population movements caused by the shifting of national borders and the troop...Maitland, Margaret