National Museums Scotland

The Big Review: Grayson Perry: Smash Hits at National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh ★★★★☆

The hugely popular English artist has, in this retrospective, set out his case as a chronicler of the British psyche

Riddle of ancient Egypt’s ‘impossible’ sculpture is finally solved—in Scotland

Pioneering research by a National Museums of Scotland curator finds statue reflects a village of eminent tomb-makers

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National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh gets annual Freelands Award

Prize worth £110,000 enables Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to host first UK museum show dedicated to Tanzanian-born artist Everlyn Nicodemus

‘More serious than the pandemic’: UK museums will struggle to keep doors open without government intervention, top director warns

Director-general of National Galleries of Scotland warns the country's most historic art institutions will face partial closure without support, as energy bills are forecast to double next year

Edinburgh show dissects the art of anatomy and delves into some of the more gruesome practices fuelling it, like graverobbing and murder

National Museum of Scotland exhibition will include works by Leonardo and Cornelis Troost as well as the skeleton of the notorious William Burke

Cash-strapped museums unable to stop treasures from leaving UK

Export licences likely to be granted on Italian roundel and German reliquary as institutions struggle with the fallout of the pandemic

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Viking-age treasure: new insights into life 1,000 years ago

Plus, new proposals for the Fourth Plinth in London and Nike Air Force 1s

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Three times lucky in Lottery funding as all applications awarded funds

The V&A, Museum of London, and National Museums of Scotland all get grants