Our collections from Asia represent its cultural diversity. More than 50,000 items from across the continent allow an insight into artistic exchange, trade relations, imperial histories and religious beliefs.

Make unlimited visits for 12 months with your National Museum of Rural Life ticket.

Two detailed funerary papyri tell the stories of the high official Montsuef and his wife Tanuat, whose intact Roman-era family burial was excavated by Alexander Henry Rhind.

Discover the story of Scotland at war within the walls of Edinburgh Castle.

The National Museum of Scotland is full of fun for kids of all ages!

Discover the secrets guarded by this mysterious Egyptian figure, who once acted in the most celebrated drama of Ancient Egypt.

Join our special guest, Dr Sian Henley from the University of Edinburgh to learn how climate change impacts young people around the world and Dr Ali Clark, Senior Curator, Oceania who will share how artists respond to climate change. Find out how to take part in the nationwide art project, Climate Change for Kids: Rising Heat, Raising Hope. Suitable for P5 – S2.

Explore stories about LGBTQIA+ history and culture, with reflections from members of the community.

Our Friday Friends programme offers a welcoming space for visually impaired and D/deaf children and their families.

These rare Wedgwood plates were designed by the famous Scottish artist and sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.

Navajo and Pueblo jewellery from the Southwest United States is denoted by its use of turquoise and silver.

Find out what to see and do as you plan your visit to the National Museum of Scotland.

How can you travel around the world without leaving Scotland? By visiting our World Cultures galleries.

This lantern was said to have been carried by Lady Grisell Baillie, Scottish songwriter, on her nightly visits to her Covenanter father during his concealment in 1684.

National Museums Scotland is collecting history as it happens. Our new film series, Collecting the Present, explores objects we have collected recently that document cultural, political and social change in Scotland.

Discover what this historic tool can tell us about the story of machinery and industry in Scotland.

St Andrew is Scotland's patron saint and his Saltire (X-shaped) cross is Scotland's flag. Discover more about how he has been represented through the centuries.

A 10th-century hoard found on the Isle of Skye contained 19 dirhams, silver coins from the Islamic emirates of central Asia. These were not exotic curiosities collected by a Viking traveller, but evidence of trade routes connecting Scotland across vast distances at the turn of the first millennium.

Tamworth pigs are well suited to the Scottish climate and are one of the oldest surviving pig breeds.

One of Britains's most distinctive, and best-known breeds, with a long, thick, flowing coat of rich hair and majestic sweeping horns, the Highland cattle have remained largely unchanged over the centuries.

Home to over 90,000 species, Scotland’s land, seas and skies support a wide range of native mammals and birds, amphibians, reptiles and over 50,000 different invertebrates. The collection at National Museums Scotland has examples of some of the iconic, at risk and once extinct birds and mammals native to Scotland.

Explore the romance and reality of 18th and 19th century Scotland in this one-day course.

Join us for this exclusive Member event which will explore the many uses of maps and the stories behind them during the Second World War.

Explore a range of activities suitable for pupils working at Third and Fourth Levels and Senior Phase including the First World War, Parasites and Fashion.

How can a vase reflect the experience of living between two cultures? This beautiful vase created by South Korean, Edinburgh-based artist Choi Keeryong, expresses this sense of 'inbetween-ness'.

This fascinating collection of scale models provides an invaluable source of information on life in 19th century India.

Explore Wildlife Photographer of the Year with a BSL tour for those who are Deaf/BSL users.

In 2014 Scotland welcomed the Commonwealth Games to Glasgow. Objects from our collection give an insight into the history of the games.

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The Hilton of Cadboll stone was carved around AD 800 in northern Scotland, then a heartland of the Picts.

Finely decorated household items of solid silver were a status symbol under the Pahlavi dynasty.

These simple-looking glasses hold a secret power: they allow people with red-green colour blindness to experience colours which they would normally be unable to see.

The unicorn is first mentioned in a long lost book about India about 400 BC and eventually is adopted as Scotland's national animal in the 15th century and can now be seen everywhere.

Aberdeen-born Annie Pirie was one of the first women in the United Kingdom to study Egyptology. Discover how this trained artist and pioneering archaeologist has left a lasting legacy.

Join our curators to explore the fascinating objects that inspired Sir Walter Scott and the celebrated novels in which they feature.

These small objects were essential tools for trade in West Africa until the end of the 19th century.

Meet 'the good ladies' of bird collecting, two pioneering ornithologists whose work is still influential today.

Our African, Americas and Oceanic collections of over 25,000 objects represent historic and contemporary textiles, musical instruments, pottery, weapons, jewellery, basketry and contemporary art.

The Natural Sciences department houses more than 2,000 shells, insects, bird skins and bats from the collections of the legendary naturalist John George Williams.