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Dr Rachel Walcott, Principal Curator of Earth Systems, with a plastic pipe containing gypsum crystals, image copyright Stewart Attwood

Dr Rachel Walcott, Principal Curator of Earth Systems, with a plastic pipe containing gypsum crystals, image copyright Stewart Attwood

National Museums Scotland Research Associate Sandy Hetherington with sample of the 410 million year-old fossil of Prototaxites

National Museums Scotland Research Associate Sandy Hetherington with sample of the 410 million year-old fossil of Prototaxites (credit Neil Hanna)

National Museum of Flight curator, Ian Brown stands on the wing of a Percival Provost aircraft in the East Lothian attraction’s Conservation Hangar where a series of new tours will enable visitors to learn about the work of the Museum’s conservation team. Also pictured is a 24m Blue Streak intermedi

National Museum of Flight curator, Ian Brown stands on the wing of a Percival Provost aircraft in the East Lothian attraction’s Conservation Hangar where a series of new tours will enable visitors to learn about the work of the Museum’s conservation team. Also pictured is a 24m Blue Streak intermediate-range ballistic missile, a Buccaneer jet and the front section of a Nimrod patrol aircraft.

Two portraits of important members of the Chief of Clan Grant’s household are now on display in the National Museum of Scotland.

The oil paintings by Richard Waitt were commissioned in 1713 by Alexander, the Laird of Grant, as part of a larger series depicting prominent clan members.

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Piper and Champion portraits (credit Duncan McGlynn)

National Museum of Flight curator, Ian Brown beside a Percival Provost aircraft in the East Lothian attraction’s Conservation Hangar where a series of new tours will enable visitors to learn about the work of the Museum’s conservation team.

National Museum of Flight curator, Ian Brown beside a Percival Provost aircraft in the East Lothian attraction’s Conservation Hangar where a series of new tours will enable visitors to learn about the work of the Museum’s conservation team.

National Museum of Flight curator, Ian Brown beside a Percival Provost aircraft in the East Lothian attraction’s Conservation Hangar where a series of new tours will enable visitors to learn about the work of the Museum’s conservation team.

National Museum of Flight curator, Ian Brown beside a Percival Provost aircraft in the East Lothian attraction’s Conservation Hangar where a series of new tours will enable visitors to learn about the work of the Museum’s conservation team.