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Scottish History & Nature Family Quiz

Scottish History & Nature Family Quiz. Join us for this fun, free event! Test your knowledge of Scottish history and nature! Win a great prize!

Colonial & Material Legacies of Hebridean Emigration

Curator talk about the significance of the NMS objects on loan to the Emigration Exhibition, reveal some of their stories, and give some background to the colonial legacies and histories related to them

Model Making Workshop 4

Model Making with an emigration theme #HebrideanHomecoming

Model Making Workshop 3

Model Making Workshop on the theme of Emigration #HebrideanHomecoming

Model Making Workshop 2

Model Making Workshop that will be included in our 2025 emigration exhibition – come and be part of it!

Model Making Workshop

Making model figures that will be included in our 2025 exhibition – come and be part of it!

Co-roinn Drop-in Session & Book Signing

Co-roinn | Glean Drop-in Session

With Alyne Jones from Vanishing Scotland who will give you insight into her work and research with the Isabel Burton MacKenzie diary and photographs.

Islands of Stone – Archaeology Talk 1

Learn about the Islands of Stone Archaeology Project, which has been investigating Neolithic crannogs, and see what the team have discovered in the Outer Hebrides. Talk by Duncan Garrow (University of Reading) & Fraser Sturt (University of Southampton)

Gold in Bronze Age Britain

Dr Neil Wilkin, Curator, Early Europe (Neolithic & Bronze Age collections) at the British Museum talking about the significance of gold in the Bronze Age, celebrating the arrival of the exhibition Gathering Light: A Bronze Age golden sun.