Terrace lift Level to all levels 7 Roof Terrace Highlights Terrace lift Welcome to the Level Piper Laidlaw Medal A Victoria Cross awarded to Daniel Laidlaw for piping his National Museum comrades ‘over the top’ in the Battle of Loos, 1915. of Scotland 6 Scotland: A Changing Nation > Scotland: A Changing Nation Level Benin Head With thousands of amazing objects 19th century commemorative across dozens of galleries, a lively Terrace lift head of a king from the Benin programme of events, special Kingdom in Nigeria. > Artistic Legacies exhibitions and great places to eat and Inspired Artistic Galleries closed for 5 by Nature Legacies redevelopment – open 2016 relax, the museum offers you a world Ching Ching of discovery on every floor. Survival Industry and Empire Our much-loved giant panda from Stair to Roof Terrace London Zoo was a gift from the Chinese Government in 1974. Traditions in Sculpture > Survival Adventure Planet Tower Restaurant

Terrace lift Explore the museum Level Seminar Room Studio 1 and 2 Learning Centre Scotland Industry and Empire Explore Scotland’s story across the ages through real objects found, made and used in Scotland. 4 Amethyst geode World Cultures Level The spectacular one-tonne geode Remarkable objects reveal how people was formed in Brazil about 130 live their lives and express themselves million years ago. through art, music and performance. > Restless Earth Exhibition Gallery 1 Terrace lift Natural World Bonnie Prince Charlie's travelling canteen From outer space to endangered species, 3 Performance Facing Galleries closed for An elaborate silver travelling explore the diversity and evolution of and Lives the Sea redevelopment – open 2016 Scotland Transformed canteen associated with Prince Planet Earth and the natural world. Animal Charles Edward Stewart. Senses > Scotland Transformed Learning Centre Our hub of inspiring activities for all ages. Waka This Maori canoe from the 1820s See the information screens or ask staff Restless Info Zone Exhibition has been restored and combined for details of what’s on today. Earth Gallery 2 with a new acrylic stern post by artist George Nuku. New galleries – open 2016 > Facing the Sea We are creating 10 new galleries to show- case our decorative art, design, fashion, Terrace lift science and technology collections. Level Auditorium Kingdom of the Scots Exhibition galleries Event Space Learning Centre Visit our current special exhibitions – for details of what's on today see the information screens. 2 Level Sir Alexander Fleming’s Nobel Prize Medal Learning Centre Awarded jointly in 1945 for the discovery of penicillin and its South Getting around Hall curative effect in various infectious diseases. Imagine Terrace lift > Discoveries

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Living Patterns Disco Galleries closed for Meet the 12-metre-long, life-sized redevelopment – open 2016 We are transforming your museum, so some Lands of Life Kingdom of the Scots skeleton cast of a T. rex, 65 million of the routes between galleries have changed. years after it walked on the earth. Animal > Animal World To travel between the Grand Gallery (all levels) World Link and the Scotland galleries, please use the link Grand Gallery Hawthornden Lewis Chessmen on Level 1. Court Found on the island of Lewis in Earth Gallery 3 Gallery 4 1831, they are one of Scotland’s in Space most significant and enigmatic Key to symbols archaeological discoveries. Tower Entrance > Kingdom of the Scots

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