With its soaring pillars and high windows, the light-filled atrium of the Grand Gallery is one of Scotland’s most beautiful spaces, and provides a spectacular start to your museum visit.

These galleries showcase the best of decorative art, design, fashion, and style.

Our much-loved Tyrannosaurus Rex guards the entrance to a stunning series of galleries about our precious planet.

Explore the history of innovation in Scotland and across the world through interactive games and thought-provoking displays.

Our Scotland galleries guide you from the Palaeolithic era to the present day, from the earliest cultures to space age science, prehistory to pop culture.

In the World Cultures galleries you can encounter diverse peoples, cultures and objects, discovering how we differ and what we all share.

Find out how to get to the museum and make the most of your visit.

Make your way around the museum using our museum map.

Our online database contains a selection of the 12 million objects and specimens in our collections.