Papers relating to the planning of the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 1985-2001

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Papers relating to the planning of the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 1985-2001

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb237-coll-1097

6 boxes, 1 folder

eng,

Edinburgh University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6294376

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Museum of Scotland

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National museums of Scotland

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Lynch Professor Michael b. 1946

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Lynch, Michael

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The Museum of Scotland, part of the National Museums of Scotland, was designed by the architects Benson and Forsyth. The firm had been selected as winners of an archictectural competition in 1991. The design received inspiration from Scotland's national building tradition, evoking the idea of castle, broch, tower house, and tenement. Materials used include external cladding of golden Clashach sandstone from Morayshire, and concrete, limestone, beech, and smooth plaster in the interi...