Monday, January 02, 2012

National Museum of Scotland–Edinburgh trip early Oct part 3

Woke up to foul weather so decided to spend the day inside the National Museum of Scotland. A great place to spend a day and its free!

A huge place but we were given a plan on entry, only trouble is it was in Gaelic so had to find one that we could actually read!

1-racing-car

Jackie Stewarts racing car

2-robot-valerie

What a clever robot!

3-robot-valerie

Pete had a go too!

4-racing-car

Another racing car

5-simulator

You could try this one out but there was some kid hogging it!

6-steam-engine

Stevensons Rocket?

7 Space-Pete

Space Pete!

8-rocket

Rocket

9-lighthouse

A great space

10-lighthouse

Ol lighthouse

11-fish

Fish

12-inside

 

13-space

Space section

14-space

 

15-dinosaur

Dinosaur bones

16-crab

Worlds largest crab

17-elephant

Elephant

18-tiger

Tiger and prey

19-lions

Lion family

20-rhino

Rhino

21-baby-elephant

Baby Elephant

22-eggs

Worlds largest and smallest eggs

23-skeleton

Elk

24-Egyptian

Egyptian

25-sealion

Sealion

26-costume

Great costume

27-carved-people

Carved couple

29-mirror-image

I recognise those two in the mirror!

30-modern-instruments

Modern instruments

31-writing

 

32-writing

More anti English graffitti!

33-painted-roof

Painted roof

34-carving

Carved wood

35-threave

Found at Threave, D&G

36-bones

Bone Ball

37-stone-carving

Carving

38-robots

These robots were display cases for smaller items

39-underwater

Sealife

40-trad-instruments

Traditional instruments

41-tartan-loom

Tartan Loom

42-beam-engine

Beam Engine

43-engine

Lots of buttons to press to make things work

44-engine

 

45-cottage

Taditional cottage with heather clad roof

46-cunard

Cunard ships-a bit before my Dads time though

47-morse-code

Morse code

48-whale-skrimshaw

The worlds largest piece of carved scrimshaw, a whale jaw

49-rex

Rex the runts in here somewhere!

50-rock

In the geology section lots of interesting slices of rock

51-rock

 

52-rock

 

53-sun-fish

Giant sun fish

54-leaf-butterflies

Can you spot the leaf butterflies?

55-chaos

So much to see!

56-costume

Colourful costume

57-ancient-instruments

Ancient musical instruments

58-silver-boat

Silver boat

59-fish-plate

Fish dish

61-apprentice

“As long as you have a trade behind you son”

62-roof

Up on the roof the rain had just about stopped

63-edinburgh-castle

Great views of the castle…

64-edinburgh

…an the rest of Edinburgh

65-edinburgh

“Over the rooftops and houses”

66-edinburgh

 

67-pigeons

The pigeons live up here

68-edinburgh

The old and the new

69-bridges

Bridges

70-lighthouse

Lighthouse model

71-steam-train

Steam train

72-whisky-stills

Whisky stills

73-lighthouse

Lighthouse lamp…

74-patterns

…casting patterns on the wall

75-grassmarket

Back outside and through the Grassmarket

76-grassmarket

back to the car

77-steps

Past Edinburgh Castle

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