National Museum of Scotland opening attracts thousands
More than 22,000 people have visited the National Museum of Scotland's newly-refurbished Victorian building on its opening day. About 2,000 people gathered outside the Edinburgh attraction as they waited for the museum doors to open to the public following a £47.4m refit. Read more
It's taken years of planning, a mountain of money and acre upon acre of bubblewrap. Now, finally, one of the biggest refurbishment projects the city's museums have seen is reaching its dramatic and exciting climax. When the old Royal Museum re-opens on Friday three years after it closed, its glittering new galleries will showcase a wealth of objects, some familiar from previous visits, most refreshingly new, each utterly fascinating. Read more