Scottish Ambulance Service staff and volunteers from across the country were celebrated at the Service’s annual awards last week for their dedication and commitment.
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Tag: National Museum of Scotland
Edinburgh Science Festival: The Musical Brain
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Playlist for Life are the UK’s leading music and dementia charity and the University of Edinburgh’s Prevent Dementia project aims to identify the earliest signs of the disease. And together, they are exploring how the power of music can help those with dementia. This event, The Musical Brain, will be outlining the neuroscience behind the phenomenon, offering an engaging showcase of how this works in practice and explaining current research while giving advice on how everyone can protect their brain health. The talk will take place on Saturday 13th April at 1200 in the Auditorium at the National Museum of Scotland. Tickets are available online The Edinburgh Science Festival runs until 21st April
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Visitor attractions: London tops but Scotland outperforms rest of UK
The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) announced its members’ visitor figures for 2018 today. There’s been an average increase of 8.68% on 2017 visits to UK attractions, while attractions in Scotland saw the biggest increase of 19.07%. Overall 138, 823, 297 visits were made to the top 249 ALVA sites in the UK. Continue reading Visitor attractions: London tops but Scotland outperforms rest of UK
Scotland’s early silver: new exhibition at National Museum of Scotland
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland supported by Glenmorangie will show for the first time how silver, not gold, became the most important precious metal in Scotland over the course of the first millennium AD. Continue reading Scotland’s early silver: new exhibition at National Museum of Scotland
The joy of six!
Scotland celebrates its World Heritage sites
From a Neolithic village to an industrial mill, Scotland’s six world heritage sites were celebrated in style yesterday at the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street as part of World Heritage Day. Continue reading The joy of six!
Go back in time to mark World Heritage Day!
Celebrate World Heritage Day with fun free event at the National Museum of Scotland
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh is hosting a fun, free, interactive event to celebrate World Heritage Day next Monday. Continue reading Go back in time to mark World Heritage Day!
Dads Rock to take over museum on Father’s Day
Free family event at Museum in Chambers Street today
Today’s the day! The free event for all the family at Chambers Street Museum starts at 11am. See the link below for full programme details:
http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/whats-on/fathers-day-family-takeover/
Free Father’s Day fun at the Museum
Award-winning charity Dads Rock is taking over the Museum in Chambers Street again for a Father’s Day festival of fun …
Great News!…along with our friends we’re heading back to the National Museum of Scotland (Museum) for more free fun on Father’s Day (21 June)!
After the success of last year, we’re hoping lots of families will once more come along. It’s open to all members of the family. It kicks off from 11am at the Chambers Street location.
See below for the programme of events, and let us know if you’ve any questions. We look forward to seeing you there!
The following people are running sessions for free, you can sign up on the day for activities:
Awesome Folk (Folk), Bookbug (bookbug), British Science Association (Science), Ceilidhkids (Ceilidh), Dads Rock (dads), Dads Rock Academy (academy), Easy Peasy Yoga (peasy), Edinburgh Sketcher (sketcher), Macastory (mac), Niki’s Balloons, Plant ‘n’ grow (grow), Step it up Dance (dance), Talking Tots (talk) and WHALE (whale)
Bring the whole family for an afternoon of time-travel with loads of free activities from the past, present and future!
