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Natural Sciences galleries, National Museum of Scotland. Photo © National Museums Scotland 03

Natural Sciences galleries, National Museum of Scotland. Photo © National Museums Scotland 03

Yufei Xiang, Textile Conservator, National Museums Scotland, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening ofBeyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

Yufei Xiang, Textile Conservator, National Museums Scotland, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening ofBeyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

Tickets for the biggest exhibition of primate behaviour ever staged go on sale today, Earth Day, Tuesday 22 April.

To mark the occasion, Louie the orangutan swung by the Grand Gallery at the National Museum of Scotland to meet Scottish primary school pupils Azalea Moghrabi aged eight and Marley B

(1) Azalea Moghrabi (8) and Marley Beamish (7) with Louie the Orangutan at the National Museum of Scotland. Photo © Duncan McGlynn

Curator Dr Sarah Laurenson with objects from the collection of National Museums Scotland to be studied as part of new Gaelic language project, Tha Sgeul Ri Innse [credit Duncan McGlynn]

Curator Dr Sarah Laurenson with objects from the collection of National Museums Scotland to be studied as part of new Gaelic language project, Tha Sgeul Ri Innse [credit Duncan McGlynn]

Injecting Hope Curator Sophie Goggins with 2020: The Sphere that Changed the World by Angela Palmer. The artwork is on display in Injecting Hope, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.

Photo © Stewart Attwood

1. Curator Sophie Goggins with 2020 The Sphere that Changed the World by Angela Palmer. Photo © Stewart Attwood (1)

Lewis chess piece takes a festive turn decorating the National Museum of Scotland's Christmas tree © Duncan McGlynn

Lewis chess piece takes a festive turn decorating the National Museum of Scotland's Christmas tree © Duncan McGlynn

Pupils from Kamehameha school in Hawai'i and Glasgow's Gaelic High School meet at the National Museum of Scotland (Credit Stewart Attwood)

Pupils from Kamehameha school in Hawai'i and Glasgow's Gaelic High School meet at the National Museum of Scotland (Credit Stewart Attwood)

Phogs! b-roll © Bit Loom Games

Phogs! b-roll © Bit Loom Games

Monks from Edinburgh's Dhammapadipa Temple welcome a buddha to the National Museum of Scotland. The statue is on loan from the temple as part of a new display 'Theravāda Buddhism' opening Saturday 16 September. Credit: Duncan McGlynn

Monks from Edinburgh's Dhammapadipa Temple welcome a buddha to the National Museum of Scotland. The statue is on loan from the temple as part of a new display 'Theravāda Buddhism' opening Saturday 16 September. Credit: Duncan McGlynn

Curator Dr Ali Clark admires a set of five kimono which make up an artwork entitled Song of Samoa, by internationally renowned artist Yuki Kihara, part of a new exhibition, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania which opens Saturday 12 August at the National Museum of Scotland (credit Stewart A

Curator Dr Ali Clark admires a set of five kimono which make up an artwork entitled Song of Samoa, part of a new exhibition, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania which opens Saturday 12 August at the National Museum of Scotland (credit Stewart Attwood)

Artist George Nuku working with young people from the Pilton Youth and Children's Project and Granton Youth on components for the artwork Bottled Ocean 2123, an imagined underwater landscape made from recycled plastic. The work will go on show in the exhibition Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania, which opens on August 12 at the National Museum of Scotland. Image credit: Neil Hanna.

Artist George Nuku working with young people from the Pilton Youth and Children's Project and Granton Youth on components for the artwork Bottled Ocean 2123, an imagined underwater landscape made from recycled plastic. The work will go on show in the exhibition Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania, which opens on August 12 at the National Museum of Scotland. Image credit: Neil Hanna.

A model walks down the catwalk in the National Museums Scotland commission at London Fashion Week. © VIN OMI

A model walks down the catwalk in the National Museums Scotland commission at London Fashion Week. © VIN OMI