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Item Number: 116461
Title: Treasures of National Museums Scotland
Author: Carmichael, Jane (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781905267606
Description: Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland, ditr. Woodstocker Books, 2011. 27cm., hardcover, 224pp., 200 color illus. Summary: One of Edinburgh's showplaces, the magnificent Victorian edifice, the Royal Museum, reopens in July of 2011 (the Royal and the Museum of Scotland are now to be known collectively as the National Museums Scotland). Its interior transformation provides the opportunity for showcasing 100 of the most important works from its vast collections from world culture, nature and the decorative arts. The spectrum ranges from the Querna burial mummy, one of the few royal mummies outside of Cairo, to artefacts from early exploration of the Pacific and from the early North Athapaskan collection from the Canadian Sub-arctic. There are also wonderful examples of Islamic art; jewelery that belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots; Bonnie Prince Charlie's silver canteen; the Lewis Chessmen; Alexander Fleming's penicillin culture; one of the oldest steam locomotives in the British Isles; lighthouse artefacts that belonged to the famous (Robert Louis) Stevenson family of engineers; Dolly, the famous sheep - the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, and much more. To fully appreciate each object, pages present a variety of different graphic treatments. (^Available January 2012^)
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