National Museums Scotland

List of national museums

• The National Museum of Scotland, comprising two linked museums on Chambers Street, in the Old Town of Edinburgh:
• * The Museum of Scotland - concerned with the history and people of Scotland
• * The Royal Museum - a general museum encompassing global geology, archaeology, natural history, science, technology and art
• The National Museum of Flight, at East Fortune, East Lothian
• The National Museum of Rural Life, at Wester Kittochside farm, in South Lanarkshire
• The National War Museum, at Edinburgh Castle

  Other collections

Trustees

Notable items in the national collections

• Dolly the sheep
• Concorde G-BOAA
• Tea Service of the Emperor Napoleon
• Assyrian relief of King Ashurnasirpal II and a court official, from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal at Nimrud, excavated by Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s; the medical pioneer James Young Simpson gave the panel to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, who passed it into the national collection
• Seringapatam sword, presented to David Baird by his field officers after the Battle of Seringapatam, in May 1799
• Silver travelling canteen of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
• Boulton & Watt engine
• Bute mazer
• Calcite crystal, found in 1927 at the New Glencrieff mine at Wanlockhead on the Leadhills ore field, "an excellent example of a complex doubly terminated scalenohedral crystal"
• Hunterston brooch
• Lewis chessmen
• Monymusk reliquary
• Queen Mary harp
• Qurneh burial collection, discovered by Flinders Petrie on 30 December 1908, the only complete ancient royal Egyptian burial collection held outside Egypt
• One of the three skins left of the Mauritius blue pigeon