Review 2018

Visitors enjoy Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop, the summer exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.

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Reaching furtherWith over 3.1 million visits across all our museums, and nearly 2.2 million visitors to the National Museum of Scotland, we have enhanced our position as one of the most popular museum groups in the world.

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The past year has been an extremely busy and productive one. Our drive to improve and diversify the experience for our visitors, share our collections as widely as possible and to expand our knowledge of the objects in our care is visible through the many facets of our work: capital projects, acquisitions, exhibitions, learning activities, public programming, digital innovation, national reach and academic research.

Following last year’s acquisition of the Galloway Hoard, we were delighted to further strengthen the national collections with the acquisition of a British Aerospace Hawk T1A, previously flown by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows. This iconic aircraft, now on display at the National Museum of Flight, was donated by the Ministry of Defence through RAF Heritage as part of the RAF100 anniversary and, as the only Red Arrow Hawk T1A on public display in the UK, has unique appeal for visitors to the Museum.

We welcomed European Space Agency Astronaut Tim Peake to the National Museum of Scotland to unveil the display of the Soyuz spacecraft which he used to return to Earth as part the Principia Mission to the International Space Station in 2016. The Museum was the only Scottish venue of a UK tour.

Work continues on time and on budget to complete the fourth and final phase of our £80 million, 15 year redevelopment of the National Museum of Scotland. During the course of this transformation, the Museum has more than trebled its audience and has achieved national and international recognition, being voted the top UK museum outside London by TripAdvisor users, and in the Top Twenty in Europe. The opening in February 2019 of three final galleries focusing on our world-class collections from ancient Egypt and East Asia and of the Art of Ceramics will be a fitting finale to this hugely successful project.

Achieving our ambitions would simply not be possible without the generous support of our many donors, supporters, partners and volunteers. We are enormously grateful for their continued and much valued support.

Finally, we would like to thank our staff for all of their hard work, energy and passion. Without their commitment and enthusiasm, none of this would ever be possible.

Bruce Minto OBE, Chairman

Dr Gordon Rintoul CBE, Director

We are very proud that through our National Strategy we have continued to build upon and grow our successful collaborations with museums across Scotland. The range of support that we offer them, from sharing our collections to supporting outreach activity and building skills and expertise, has been enhanced through funding from a number of sources. In 2018 this included the national tour of the exhibition Scotland’s Early Silver, supported by The Glenmorangie Company, to Lews Castle in Stornoway and the newly opened Kirkcudbright Galleries in Dumfries and Galloway.

We were also pleased to agree a long term partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Council to display some of the Galloway Hoard in the Kirkcudbright Galleries. This will allow this exceptional Viking-age Hoard, which was acquired by National Museums Scotland last year with the help of many supporters and donors, to be enjoyed by the local community for many years to come.

Further afield, our first major international touring exhibition, Monkeys! A Primate Story, has now opened at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia following a hugely successful run at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

European Space Agency Astronaut, Tim Peake at the unveiling of his Soyuz spacecraft display at the National Museum of Scotland.

61,837 school and group visits

283,528 participants in learning activities

4,437 objects loaned to 128 venues

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663,295 digitised objects

3,141,442 visits

2,223,484 website visits

173,000 social media followers

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Dunfermline band Dancing on Tables perform in the Energise gallery at the National Museum of Scotland as part of a project with Napier University to engage with young audiences alongside Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop.

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Increasing visitor attendance

We once again achieved significant year on year growth in visits, reaching our highest ever combined total across our four museums – over 3.14 million. The National Museum of Scotland, the National War Museum and the National Museum of Rural Life all saw their highest ever attendance. The National Museum of Scotland welcomed over 2.18 million visits, taking it to the top spot as the most visited attraction in the UK outside London. The National Museum of Flight achieved nearly 78,000 visits. The National War Museum attracted over 770,000 visits and the National Museum of Rural Life enjoyed success with just under 102,000 visits.

Engaging exhibitions

The centenary of the end of the First World War was marked by the opening of The Poppy: A Symbol of Remembrance at the National War Museum. Featuring loans from Poppy Scotland and the Lady Haig Poppy Factory, the exhibition explores the origins of the symbolism of the poppy from the famous poem, In Flanders Fields by John McCrae and its adoption as a symbol of remembrance. The exhibition includes examples from 1921, when the first ‘poppy day’ took place in Britain, and from 1926, when the first poppies were made in Scotland at the poppy factory established in Edinburgh by Lady Haig.

On loan from London’s Natural History Museum, the world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition celebrated the diversity of the natural world, from intimate animal portraits to astonishing wild landscapes. The exhibition is the result of the most prestigious photography event of its kind, providing a global platform that showcases the natural world’s most astonishing and challenging sights.

Art of Glass examined the diverse work of 15 established and emerging glass artists. Presented in partnership with The National Centre for Craft & Design, the exhibition explored how artists are embracing the medium of glass in innovative ways, challenging the perception of it as merely a material for creating functional objects. The artists featured in the exhibition are based around the UK, from isolated rural studios to busy urban locations and their work uses glass in a wide variety of ways, from neon to stained glass.

The first major exhibition on the subject, Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop brought together nearly 500 objects, many on loan from some of the biggest names in Scottish pop, and featuring the voices of the artists and their music. Rip It Up also heralded a major partnership with BBC Scotland, which saw the creation of accompanying TV and radio series. The results have been a resounding critical and reputational success, with UK national print and broadcast coverage, four and five star reviews and ringing endorsements from many high-profile contributors to the exhibition.

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Glenmorangie partnership

The continuation this year of our longstanding partnership with The Glenmorangie Company has enabled us to create the exhibition Scotland’s Early Silver and take it on a national tour. The exhibition showcases the latest fruits of our innovative ten-year research partnership with Glenmorangie. It shows both recent discoveries and new research into existing collections, tracing the history of silver as the premier metal of status from its use along the Roman frontier and its reuse through to the coming of the Vikings. The exhibition has toured to Lews Castle, Stornoway, the newly opened Kirkcudbright Galleries in Dumfries and Galloway and to Duff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire where it will be on display until March 2019.

Festival focus

The National Museum of Scotland partnered with the variety of Festivals on offer in the city. We celebrated the 30th year of the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April with interactive activities, workshops, shows and talks. A highlight was Event Horizon, an enormous balloon installation in the Grand Gallery by renowned artist Jason Hackenwerth. The Museum also hosted the opening weekend of the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival in May.

In August, visitors enjoyed three weeks of Free Fringe Music themed around our summer exhibition, Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop. Musicians from our regular partner Live Music Now were joined by students and graduates from Edinburgh Napier University’s Popular Music Course to present a varied mix of Scottish pop, traditional Scottish songs and instrumental sets.

The Museum After Hours events were again all sold out, showcasing 39 Fringe acts across three consecutive Friday nights, ranging from gravity-defying acrobatics to the six singing wives of Henry VIII performing for us before heading off to London’s West End. Our successful relationship with fringe producers Gilded Balloon presented 27 days of inspiring and diverse programming at the Museum, showcasing the very best in comedy, theatre and children’s shows.

Really enjoyed visiting @NtlMuseumsScot today and seeing the amazing ‘Art of Glass’ and ‘Modernist Jewellery’ exhibitions.

There was also an enormous balloon vortex...(Always a plus)@Xefortanzo

1 Dr Adrian Maldonado, the Glenmorangie Research Fellow at the opening of the Scotland’s Early Silver exhibition at Kirkcudbright Galleries in Dumfries and Galloway.

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Q & A with an astronaut

In May, European Space Agency Astronaut Tim Peake visited the National Museum of Scotland to unveil his Soyuz spacecraft. The spacecraft – in which he returned to Earth as part of the Principia Mission to the International Space Station – went on display at the National Museum of Scotland as part of a national tour. Helping with the unveiling were pupils from Dunipace Primary School in Falkirk, who were also given the opportunity to put their space-based questions to the astronaut himself.

Year of Young People

Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop presented us with the opportunity to form an innovative partnership with Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Arts and Creative Industries and Business School. Working across disciplines, a group of students were tasked with promoting the exhibition to a target audience of their peers. Their response to the brief was Future Features, in which current and emerging young musicians were filmed in the National Museum of Scotland performing and being interviewed about their views on Scottish pop music. The results were used in a digital and social media advertising campaign throughout the run of the exhibition, reaching over 66,000 people.

2 One of the sold-out Museum After Hours events in the Grand Gallery.

3 Tim Peake enjoying his Q & A session with pupils from Dunipace Primary School, Falkirk.

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Awesome night @nationalmuseums scotland #ripitup opening! Head along to the exhibition to see the history of Scottish pop and our @edinburgh napier student film Time & Place! Look out for #futurefeatures online too!

@edinburghnapierplacements

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Across the countryOur commitment to making an impact beyond the walls of our museums continues to be fulfilled through our National Strategy.

Our core national activity – object loans, touring exhibitions and collection skills development to museums across Scotland – has this year been enhanced by a programme of activity focused on the themes of two of the upcoming new galleries at the National Museum of Scotland: ancient Egypt and East Asia. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, we have been working in partnership with three museums, helping them to review and reveal their own East Asia collections. At Perth Museum and Art Gallery a rare 19th-century Korean robe was discovered. Working with an artist, their learning team collaborated with a variety of local groups to create and

This afternoon our Collections Officer, Alli, joined a group from various museums to learn about the unwanted guests we might find in our collections, and what we can do to prevent them. Thanks for the excellent training session @NMSPartnerships!@ArgyllsMuseum

1 A pupil from Perth High School displays the community robe she helped to create as part of the exhibition, Dress to Impress at Perth Museum and Art Gallery.

Great turnout and great discussion for our #EarlySilver public lecture at @kbtgalleries tonight! @amaldon

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decorate a community robe. More than 100 people participated, many of them new to the Museum. Both robes went on display as part of an exhibition, Dress to Impress, which highlighted objects from both National and local collections from the East Asian cultures of Korea, Japan and China.

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The National Strategy in action In 2017–18 our work

across Scotland included:

115 museums were supported through training, loans, acquisitions, touring and community engagement projects.

24,977 people engaged through outreach programmes beyond our museums.

Craig Sinclair, Science Engagement and Outreach Assistant, runs a STEM engagement workshop at St Patrick’s Primary School, Dumbarton as part of the Powering Up project.

At least one National Programme activity reached each of Scotland’s 32 local authorities.

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48 acquisitions were supported by the National Fund for Acquisitions with a total purchase price of £367,740, helping to develop and enhance the collections of 29 organisations in 17 local authorities across Scotland.

The Fossil Hunters touring exhibition was visited by 23,279 people with an average increase of 30% in visitors across five venues.

Our ScottishPower funded Powering Up national programme reached 1,623 people participating in 60 renewable energy workshops.

377 training experiences were provided to 75 organisations.

3,895 objects were loaned to 107 organisations across Scotland, including loans to 15 new venues.

International collaboration

The international touring exhibition, Monkeys! A Primate Story on display at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

Monkeys on tour

Monkeys! A Primate Story, the first major exhibition created by National Museums Scotland to tour internationally, continues to impress visitors around the globe. Featuring 60 spectacular new taxidermy specimens and skeletons of monkeys, apes, lemurs and bushbabies, it also contains a range of interactives, films, models and carefully selected photographs. At the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, over 115,000

visitors enjoyed the exhibition during its ten month run. The next stop is Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia where it opened in September 2018, before it transfers on to the Museu de les Ciències Naturals in Barcelona, Spain in 2019.

ICOM Conference

More than 85 representatives from museums around the globe came together at the National Museum of Scotland for Working Locally, Thinking Globally, the 6th Working Internationally Conference, organised by the International Council of Museums (ICOM UK) and National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC). Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, welcomed delegates and gave the keynote address. The conference, supported by the British Council, focused on how museums can engage effectively internationally, while maintaining relevance for both domestic and international audiences.

American Foundation for National Museums Scotland

The American Foundation for National Museums Scotland makes an invaluable contribution through its continued support for our work. In 2017, funds raised by the American Foundation supported the ongoing transformation of the National Museum of Scotland, helped us make significant acquisitions such as the Viking-age Galloway Hoard, and supported groundbreaking art and archaeology research projects. June 2018 marked the successful launch of a new US Patrons programme, celebrated at a reception in New York attended by more than 40 friends and supporters of the American Foundation.

International gold research

In partnership with colleagues at National Museums Wales, we secured funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to establish an international research network to learn more about gold in prehistoric Britain. The network brings together archaeologists, archaeometallurgists, geologists, geochemists and practising goldworkers to find out more about how the metal was obtained, how objects were made and how skills to extract and work gold were passed on.

1 A basket-shaped hair ornament, one of a pair found in an Early Bronze Age grave at Orbliston, Moray, is one of the key objects being researched as part of an international gold research project.

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Making the collections accessibleSTEM Engagement

The strength of our Science & Technology collections makes them an outstanding resource for creating meaningful connections between the public and themes of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). A key Scottish Government and industry priority, STEM engagement has become a major focus for our education initiatives as we aim to encourage and enable children and young people to engage in STEM learning activities across all of our museums.

Through Powering Up, a project funded by the ScottishPower Foundation, we are able to deliver STEM activities through our schools outreach programme and digital channels to engage hard-to-reach audiences

Museum Socials

Our monthly events for anyone affected by dementia and their relatives, friends and supporters go from strength to strength. The Museum Socials sessions, which have attracted over 250 participants, are relaxed and informal, featuring a range of activities inspired by our collections and lots of tea and cake. A highlight was a session inspired by Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop with guest musicians from Live Music Now Scotland.

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beyond the walls of our museums. This year, we developed new partnerships with the National Mining Museum Scotland, New Lanark World Heritage Site, and the Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank to act as locations for our outreach programme. Almost 500 primary school pupils from Midlothian, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire visited their local museum to learn about wind, solar and hydro energy, and completed the programme with a visit to the Energise gallery at the National Museum of Scotland.

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Open all hours

Early Doors events enable autistic children and their families to enjoy galleries, exhibitions and activities outside the National Museum of Scotland’s busy public opening hours. This year 150 people took part in events to engage families with our forthcoming Exploring East Asia and Ancient Egypt Rediscovered galleries. They also explored the exhibition Scotland’s Early Silver and the Natural World galleries, inspired by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

Google Museum View

The National Museum of Scotland has become the first museum or gallery in Scotland available for exploration online via Google Arts & Culture’s Museum View experience. The Museum’s galleries have been captured digitally in high resolution in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, which works with institutions around the world to make cultural and historical places and material accessible online. Users can move through the Museum’s permanent galleries at the click of a button, viewing around 20,000 objects on display. In addition to making our galleries accessible for everyone to explore online, over 1,000 objects from our collections and their stories have been added to the Google Arts & Culture online collection.

2 Google Arts & Culture’s Museum View allows visitors to take a digital tour of the National Museum of Scotland from anywhere in the world.

Getting to know Myrtle

There is a new member of the team at the National Museum of Rural Life. A model dairy cow has been introduced at the farm to help visitors get to grips with dairy farming by trying out their milking skills. Painted in the characteristic red and white markings of our award-winning Ayrshire herd, we asked our followers on Facebook and Twitter to #NameOurCoo. The result was unanimous and Myrtle has now become a firm favourite at the site.

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#NameOurCoo Myrtle is a gorgeous flower of Beltane; Flora is something you put on your toast. Exercise your democratic right on this incredibly important matter! @thatnishcray

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Building the collectionsRed Arrows Hawk

The acquisition of a British Aerospace Hawk T1A has significantly enhanced our aviation collection. The Hawk, which was flown by the Royal Air Force (RAF) Aerobatic Team the Red Arrows, is the only Red Arrows Hawk on display in any UK museum. The iconic aircraft was donated by the Ministry of Defence through RAF Heritage and is on permanent display at the National Museum of Flight. Built in 1980, the aircraft was used by the Red Arrows from 1985 until 2012. It sits alongside Concorde, an aircraft with which the Red Arrows displayed on many occasions, most notably when Concorde and the Red Arrows flew in formation over Edinburgh on 1 July 1999 to mark the opening of the Scottish Parliament. The newly acquired Hawk is the very one flown on that day by team leader, ‘Red 1’, Wing Commander Simon Meade who was reunited with his aircraft as it went on display.

Mackintosh washstand

With generous support from Art Fund and the National Museums Scotland Charitable Trust, we have acquired a rare and important wash stand by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A highly significant example of Scottish 20th-century design, the piece was added to the permanent displays at the National Museum of Scotland to mark the 150th anniversary of Mackintosh’s birth. Forming part of a bedroom set, it is made from mahogany and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Dating from 1917, the wash stand is a rare example of Mackintosh’s later work and was made by skilled ‘enemy intern’ cabinet makers at the Knockaloe Internment Camp on the Isle of Man.

Collecting contemporary objectsScotland’s National Collections have been built up over hundreds of years. Just as the curators of the past collected objects that represented the times they lived in, we have a responsibility to the curators of the future to collect items reflecting political, cultural and social change in 21st-century society. This year we welcomed a new addition to our Science & Technology collection – one of the largest in recent years – the flare tip from the recently decommissioned Murchison Oil Platform. For our Scottish History & Archaeology collection we acquired a pair of contemporary Sneachda skis and a Gaelic-English road sign from the Isle of Skye.

1 The rare 1917 wash stand by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

2 Wooden Sneachda skis made by Lonely Mountain Skis of Birnam, with pyrography engraving of rutting stags, 2018.

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Flight Officer Scott Bagshaw from the RAF helps to get the Red Arrow Hawk T1A ready for display to the public.

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Behind the scenes at the museum

A mummified man is carefully conserved ahead of going on display in the new Ancient Egypt Rediscovered gallery.

New conservation studios

Central to the delivery of our strategic vision, the National Museums Collection Centre continues to grow as an active and vibrant hub for collections access, research, storage and the long term preservation of our collections. This year we opened a £3.4 million extension to our existing conservation and collection science facilities, increasing our capacity to conserve, research and prepare collections for exhibition and loan projects as well as our growing programme of national and international touring exhibitions.

Volunteers

Volunteers have long played an important and appreciated role at National Museums Scotland, giving their time and passion to support us in our work, and bringing with them new experiences, perspectives and insights. In the last year our Volunteer Programme supported almost 450 people in a range of opportunities across the organisation. One focus this year has been on widening access to the collections through increasing our offer of guided tours, including our youngest ever Volunteer Guide who, at just 17 years old is taking visitors on Gaelic tours at the National Museum of Scotland, and the training of three British Sign Language Volunteer Guides.

Improved sustainability

We are proud to have retained Green Tourism Awards for all of our museums, with the National Museum of Rural Life and the National Museum of Flight attaining Gold Awards this year. We continue to work to reduce our carbon footprint through introducing new LED lighting and controls, the active monitoring of energy meters and

replacing chillers with new high efficiency plant, leading to a reduction of approximately 1000 tonnes of CO2 since last year.

A biobank for the future

Our collection of frozen animal tissue samples is playing a pivotal role in establishing a UK-wide hub where researchers can access animal tissue to extract DNA for use in research and conservation planning. Thanks to a grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the CryoArks Project will create an online database of tissue samples, the development of a common standard for their storage and the opportunity for comparative research. A -80°C freezer will be installed at the National Museums Collection Centre to ensure the preservation of several thousand samples including those from endangered species such as the Sumatran rhinoceros and Kloss’ gibbon.

1 Principle Curator, Dr Andrew Kitchener examines tissue samples to be included in the online database for the CryoArks Project.

2 Conservation Student, Amreet Kular and Conservator, Charles Stable working in the new conservation studios at the National Museums Collection Centre.

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Future plansCause for celebration

In February 2019, we will open the final new galleries in the £80 million, 15 year transformation of the National Museum of Scotland. This final phase of restoration will unveil three entirely new galleries with compelling and inspiring interpretations of our Ancient Egypt, East Asia and Ceramic collections and a nationwide programme of associated activity.

The new galleries will enable even more internationally significant objects to be displayed – over 40% of the objects will be on permanent display for the first time in at least a generation – further enhancing the visitor experience in the museum and ensuring that the full range of our collections is represented in displays for the first time since 2004 when the restoration began.

This transformation has brought the National Museum of Scotland tremendous national and international recognition and more than trebled its visitor attendance, making it one of the top 30 museums in the world. The whole project has been delivered on time and to budget.

Ready for take-off

Planning has begun for the next stage of development at the National Museum of Flight, an entirely new hangar to be built on land right next to the Museum’s home at historic East Fortune Airfield. The new building is needed to help us protect historically important aircraft which are currently at risk because they are displayed outdoors. It would also provide a permanent home for the Museum’s star attraction, Scotland’s Concorde, and give us the opportunity to significantly improve the experience for visitors to the Museum by creating a new entrance with better public facilities.

This is the next step in the development of the Museum, which started with the arrival of Concorde in 2004 and has seen extensive investment in the site in recent years, including the creation of new exhibitions in 2009 and the restoration and redisplay of two original Second World War hangars in 2016.

1 Senior Curator, Dr Rosina Buckland prepares a newly commissioned gugunbok, a ceremonial court official’s costume from the 18th and 19th centuries to be included in the new Exploring East Asia gallery.

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With thanks

Our Supporters in 2017–18

Key Funders The National Lottery, through the Heritage Lottery Fund

Scottish Government

Members of National Museums Scotland

Trusts and Other OrganisationsAntiquarian Horological Society

Art Fund

Arts & Business Scotland

The Binks Trust

Edinburgh Decorative & Fine Arts Society

Enterprise Holdings Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The Fan Circle International

Garfield Weston Foundation

The Henry Moore Foundation

Jean and Roger Miller’s Charitable Trust

Mrs K M F Maxwell-Stuart’s Charitable Trust

Mrs J M F Fraser’s Charitable Trust

Our work is made possible by a community of supporters who are passionate about our museums. Our Members, Patrons and donors, those who sponsor our work, and the people who remember us in their wills, enable us to protect the remarkable objects in our care, and to reveal their stories to millions of people every year. In 2018, our supporters helped save incredible treasures for the nation, enabled painstaking conservation work and fascinating research, and helped us to create world-class exhibitions, sharing Scotland’s national collections with the widest possible audience. Thank you.

National Heritage Memorial Fund

National Museums Scotland Charitable Trust

The Norfolk Caledonian Society

Players of People’s Postcode Lottery

Robert O Curle Charitable Trust

The Ross Girls Charitable Trust

Scottish Egyptian Archaeological Trust

ScottishPower Foundation

Sir James Miller Edinburgh Trust

The John Ellerman Foundation

The Margaret Murdoch Charitable Trust

The Misses Barrie Charitable Trust

The Pilgrim Trust

The Robertson Trust

The Sir Victor Sassoon Chinese Ivories Trust

The Tekoa Trust

The Tulip Charitable Trust

The Worshipful Company of Weavers

William Grant Foundation

Individuals and LegaciesSir Sandy and Lady Crombie

The Dowager Duchess of Hamilton

Norma Drummond

Sir Angus and Lady Grossart

Sir Mark Jones

Caroline Macintyre

Emmanuelle Riehl

Leith and Maureen Robertson

Cyrille Rollin

The Thomas Family

The Estate of John Mitchell

The Estate of Mary Elizabeth McArthur

James Thomson

Corporate Allander Print Ltd

Artemis Investment Management LLP

Baillie Gifford & Co

Brewin Dolphin Ltd

Dalradian Gold Ltd

Diageo

The Glenmorangie Company Ltd

Morton Ward

Shepherd + Wedderburn

Stewart Investors

The American Foundation for National Museums ScotlandKate and Gordon Baty

Prudence Carlson and family

Dan Casey and Dolores Connolly

The Decorative Arts Trust

Howard and Ursula Dubin Foundation

Gail T Kerr in memory of David Kerr

James B Luke

William C MacLeod

Professor Robert McCrie and Mrs Fulvia McCrie

James McLennan

The Negaunee Foundation

Professor Stephen Thomas and Mrs Ellen Thomas

Jane Trevarthen-Traub

K T Wiedemann Foundation, Inc.

PatronsAlan and Karen Aitchison

Geoffrey and Mary Ball

Patricia Barclay

Malcolm Bowie

Mary Bownes and Mike Greaves

Richard and Catherine Burns

Lord and Lady Cameron of Lochbroom

Corinne Cervetti and Adam Fowler

Carol Colburn Grigor CBE

Colin Dempster and Deborah Thomson

Janice Dickson

Cahal Dowds

Sir David and Lady Edward

Sir Gerald and Lady Elliot

Nick Felisiak

James Ferguson

Mr Justice Angus Foster and Dr Fiona Foster

Sir Charles and Lady Fraser

Gavin and Kate Gemmell

Kenneth and Julia Greig

Lord and Lady Gordon of Strathblane

Ronald and Mirren Graham

Lady Grant

Alexander Gray

Donald Hardie

J Douglas Home

Lord and Lady Hope of Craighead

Sir Sandy and Lady Crombie

James and Amanda Garden

Flora Hunter

Jennifer, Marchioness of Bute

Alan Johnston

Robert Ker

Barrie and Janey Lambie

Brian and Tari Lang

Gavin Law and Joanne McLean-Law

Robert and Shona Lightbody

Roger Alexander Lindsay of Craighall

A bird of prey demonstration at the Country Fair event at the National Museum of Rural Life.

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Elizabeth Lornie

Duncan and Ellie Mackinnon

Simon and Catriona Mackintosh

Fenella Maclean

Miller and Anne McLean

Sir Hamish and Lady Macleod

Ian and Elizabeth Marchant

Chris and Gill Masters

Alexander and Elizabeth McCall Smith

Angus McLeod and Campbell Armour

Malcolm McLeod

James and Iris Miller

Keith and Lee Miller

Sir Ronald and Lady Miller

Angus and Angela Milner-Brown

Derek and Maureen Moss

Malcolm and Muriel Murray

Tom and Susan Murray

Nicola Pickavance

Sir William and Lady Purves

Ian Rankin and Miranda Harvey

Shirley Richardson

Ian Ritchie

Paul Roberts and Stephanie Donaldson

The Earl and Countess of Rosebery

Colin and Hilary Ross

Ian and Fiona Russell

William Samuel

Barry and Helen Sealey

Andrew and Alison Shepherd

Alan and Frances Steel

David and Alix Stevenson

Katie Stevenson

George and Moira Stewart

Ian and Flora Sword

Nick and Katherine Thomas

Mark Urquhart

Judith and Ian Wall

Elizabeth G Whitelaw

Kenneth Wilkie

Lord and Lady Wilson of Tillyorn

Sarah Whitley and Graham Whyte

Eilidh Wiseman

Bill Zachs and Martin Adam

We also thank the many people who have provided guidance, expertise and their time in support of the work of National Museums Scotland

Board of TrusteesBruce Minto OBE, Chairman

Ann Allen

Professor Mary Bownes OBE

The Hon Adam Bruce

Gordon Drummond

Christopher Fletcher

Dr Brian Lang CBE

Lynda Logan

Dr Catriona McDonald

Miller McLean

Professor Walter Nimmo OBE

Janet Stevenson

James Troughton

Eilidh Wiseman

1 Lachlan Peel, a Gaelic tour guide takes visitors around the Animal World gallery at the National Museum of Scotland.

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National Museums Scotland Enterprises BoardGordon Drummond, Chairman

The Hon Adam Bruce

Aileen Lamb

Bruce Minto OBE

Keith Pentland

Dr Gordon Rintoul CBE FRSE

Stephen Whitelaw

Development BoardMalcolm Offord, Chairman

Colin Dempster

Lynda Logan

Bruce Minto OBE

Professor Walter Nimmo CBE

Leith Robertson

Lady Shona Stewart

Eric Young

Directors of the American Foundation for National Museums ScotlandChristopher Gow

Lynda Logan

A J C Smith

2 A young visitor gets hands on at Wartime Experience at the National Museum of Flight.

3 Contemporary artist, Pinkie Maclure watches over photography of her work for the Art of Glass exhibition.

We would like to record our special thanks to the Trustees of the National Museums Scotland Charitable Trust for their ongoing support of our workJames Ferguson, Chairman

The Hon Mrs Katheen Dalyell of The Binns

Lady Elizabeth Edward

Jo Elliot

Kenny Greig

Bruce Minto OBE

Martin Sinclair

If you would like to know more about ways to get involved and support our work, please contact our development team on 0131 247 4095, or development@nms.ac.uk

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The Fly Right Dance Company enjoy the applause for their nifty footwork at the Wartime Experience event at the National Museum of Flight.

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National Museums Scotland Scottish Charity No. SC011130

This Review is also available in large print, in Braille and on CD.

National Museums Scotland cares for museum collections of international importance, presenting and interpreting them for a broad audience.

Cover image: A selection of items included within the displays of the summer exhibition, Rip It Up: The Story of Scottish Pop.