Entrance Hall, Scotland National Museum, Edinburgh

Today it poured down with rain all day long, making us opt mainly for indoor activities.
This is the light, airy entrance hall of the newly refurbished and enormous Scottish National Museum, which links Scotland’s two museums – The Museum of Scotland, concerned with the history and people of Scotland, and the Royal Museum, encompassing geology, archaeology, natural history, science, technology and art. The actual museum is located on 5 levels, with various added halls, galleries and annexes, and you most definitely need a map to help you find you way around. Unfortunately, there were no maps available in English. Or French. Or German. (I asked). The map we were provided with was in Polish, which language neither I nor my husband speak or are familiar with. But we stumbled our way through ‘Ancient Egypt’, the history of Scotland, originally the Museum of Scotland, on all of its five levels, and enjoyed the beautiful exhibition of Japanese Kakubi, Japanese Theatre Prints. The museum is outstanding of its class, is an excellent educational tool, but is the kind of place where it is impossible to explore it fully in a day.