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From whale skeletons and insects to motorbikes and high fashion, the Collection Centre holds millions of objects and specimens.
Conserving a Venetian Guitar.
The Collection Centre is a hub for cutting-edge research and innovation, training and teaching, as well as the preparation of collections for exhibition, loan, and tour. The work we carry out and facilitate here includes research, scientific analysis, conservation, and digitisation.
Textile conservation in action at the National Museums Collection Centre.
We offer visitors the chance to explore our work behind the scenes at the Collection Centre on regular guided tours. Find out more information and book your place.
For those with specialist interests in specific areas of our collections, we organise study visits as well as tours for students, groups and societies. We also host artists and designers who are looking for inspiration, and members of diaspora communities.
The National Museums Collection Centre houses an extensive Natural Sciences collection.
The Collection Centre has facilities to access, research, digitise and conserve collections. This includes specialist conservation laboratories, photography studios, collection research spaces, as well as heritage science laboratories with equipment ranging from PDA-UPLC, XRF, SEM-EDX to XRD and FTIR.
The City of Edinburgh Council has outlined ambitious plans to regenerate the Granton Waterfront area. National Museums Scotland is one of the partners on this project, which is committed to making Granton Waterfront one of Edinburgh’s best places to live, work, learn and visit.
We share some facilities at the Collection Centre with National Galleries of Scotland, and we are working with them to align our future plans to develop collection facilities making them more accessible to visitors.
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road
Granton
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Tel: 0131 247 4470