While many of the Museums in Scotland are concentrated in Edinburgh and Glasgow you will find links here to collections around the whole of Scotland. Of course, there is a separate section of this Directory devoted to History. The Hunterian, beside Glasgow University, is the oldest public museum in Scotland. Pages on dinosaurs and fossils found in Scotland also an eye-opener. This is an extensive, illustrated description of the various National Museums including The Royal Museum .
Graphics are surprisingly limited.
More specialised aspects are covered at the Museum of Agriculture which is a treasure house of objects and documentary evidence, covering not only farming to the 1950s, but also the trades that supported farming and the social and economic life of the countryside. The page for Museum of Costume at Shambellie House, New Abbey, Dumfriesshire illustrates some of the clothing worn in Scotland in times past. There is also the Museum of Flight with its aircraft collection at East Fortune and the Armed Forces Museum contains the story of the Scottish soldier 1600-1918. The National Museum also administers the Scottish Ethnological Archives consisting of photographs, slides, postcards, film, drawings and sources such as diaries, letters, account books, newspaper cuttings, bibliographies and other notes. There are no illustrations but the data provided gives a good overview of the various locations.