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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)

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

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

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)

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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