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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 with the Bottled Ocean 2123 installation by George Nuku, 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)

Curator Dr Ali Clark with the Bottled Ocean 2123 installation by George Nuku, part of a new exhibition, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania

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.

Laura Marsh, conservation intern, with glass spear points Kimberley, Western Australia (late 19th to early 20th century) © Duncan McGlynn

Laura Marsh, conservation intern, with glass spear points Kimberley, Western Australia (late 19th to early 20th century) © Duncan McGlynn

Close up detail of seals from the Declaration of Arbroath credit Mike Brooks © King's Printer for Scotland, National Records of Scotland, SP13-7

Close up detail of seals from the Declaration of Arbroath credit Mike Brooks © King's Printer for Scotland, National Records of Scotland, SP13-7

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)

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

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

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)