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    The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum...
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  • National Museums Scotland (NMS; Scottish Gaelic: Taighean-tasgaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government...
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  • there are national museums in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which are supported by the devolved legislatures. National museums in Scotland are funded...
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    Pitch drop experiment (category University of Queensland)
    the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh and is in Edinburgh at the Royal Scottish Museum's successor institution the National Museum of Scotland. The known...
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    The National Monument of Scotland, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, is Scotland's national memorial to the Scottish soldiers and sailors who died fighting...
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    National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh. Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which...
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    The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close...
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    18th-century ordnance storehouse, the museum is run by the National Museums Scotland and covers 400 years of Scotland at war from the 17th century through...
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    066°W / 55.861; -3.066 The National Mining Museum Scotland was created in 1984, to preserve the physical surface remains of Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange...
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    and is the home of institutions including the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. The city...
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    The National Library of Scotland (NLS; Scottish Gaelic: Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Scots: Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is one of the country's...
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    The National Museum of Flight is Scotland's national aviation museum, at East Fortune Airfield, just south of the village of East Fortune, Scotland. It...
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    The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is the senior antiquarian body of Scotland, with its headquarters in the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street...
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  • The Scotland men's national football team represents Scotland in men's international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association....
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    coronation now belongs to the National Museum of Scotland. The Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle also contains the Stone of Scone, the Elizabeth Sword, a...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Scotland. This list of museums in Scotland contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions...
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    Lewis chessmen (category Collections of National Museums Scotland)
    and usually exhibited by the British Museum in London, and the remaining 11 are at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh; one chesspiece is owned...
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    The national symbols of Scotland are the objects, images, or cultural expressions that are emblematic, representative, or otherwise characteristic of the...
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    The National Trust for Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Urras Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish conservation organisation. It is the largest membership organisation...
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    This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world, per annual attendance statistics. Many museums have not reported 2023 figures as of February 2024...
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    [citation needed] Scotland possess significant collections of art, such as the National Gallery of Scotland and National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and...
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    gardens, zoos theatres, libraries and museums. List of most visited art museums List of most-visited museums "Visits made in 2022 to Visitor Attractions...
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    notably "Flower of Scotland" and "Scotland the Brave". The Scottish Government has not formally adopted an official national anthem of Scotland, and said in...
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    The National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between East Kilbride...
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    Dolly (sheep) (category Collections of National Museums Scotland)
    was preserved and donated by the Roslin Institute in Scotland to the National Museum of Scotland, where it has been regularly exhibited since 2003. Dolly...
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    Claymore (redirect from Scottish sword)
    Highland swords in the collections of Glasgow Museums, the National Museum of Scotland, and the British Museum. Scottish two-handed swords with clam shell...
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    The Riverside Museum (replacing the preceding Glasgow Museum of Transport) is a museum in the Yorkhill area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building...
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    List of national galleries List of single-artist museums "The Art Newspaper,", March 2023 Coville, Alex (27 March 2023). "Will China's museums still...
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    remain and can be seen in the National Museum of Scotland. The abbey was sacked in 1560 by Calvinists during the Scottish Reformation and the tomb was...
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    Jean Jenkins (ethnomusicologist) (category Alumni of SOAS University of London)
    the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. She died in London on 12 September 1990.[citation needed] In 1980 the National Museum of Scotland acquired Jean...
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