Description: The Museum of Scotland recently merged with the Royal Museum next door, to form the National Museum of Scotland. The Museum of Scotland houses a host of Scottish antiquities, charting the culture and history of the Country, while the Royal Museum’s collections are focused on science, technology, natural history and world cultures, with highlights including the stuffed body of Dolly the Sheep, the first successful clone of a mammal from an adult cell. Other highlights in the Royal Museum include the Ancient Egyptian exhibits and The Maiden - an early Scottish form of the guillotine. The Scottish galleries in the Museum of Scotland chart Scottish history chronologically, with prehistory to the early medieval period in lower level, and later periods on higher floors. Highlights of its collections include the iron-age Torrs Pony-cap and Horns, Roman Newstead Helmet, Pictish Silver Plaques, Hilton of Cadboll Stone, Hunterston Brooch, and the Carmond Lioness.
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