You can give us a whole museum, but we’ll likely spend most of our time launching hot air balloons. 🎈😄

📍 National Museum of Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh.

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Taken this day, 2011, reflections and refractions: https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/5577392570

A model of how the incredible Fresnel lens in a lighthouse works, Museum of Scotland.

If you look at the larger version on Flickr, you can see partial reflections of me taking the pic, and my dad walking past

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #NationalMuseumOfScotland #FresnelLens #engineering #science

Taken this day, 2017, slanted winter sunlight across the roof beams of the National Museum of Scotland
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/32769059862/in/photostream/lightbox/

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Taken this day, 2011. Hugh Miller, Geologist
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/6364948101/in/photostream/lightbox/

Statue of Hugh Miller in the National Museum of Scotland, caught in in light & shadow.

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Museum of Sunlight https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54447864825/in/dateposted/

The Moray sandstone of the National Museum of Scotland, glowing in spring sunshine. It was begging for a B&W photo.

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@archaeology Fascinating to read of this Sasanian treasure in Scotland, the early silk, & the ability to identify the precise mine in Iran from which the silver was sourced!

Noting that it will be displayed in the Silk Roads exhibition starting 26 Sept at the British Museum, for which there's a wonderful intro here:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/beyond-sand-and-spices-introduction-silk-roads

#Sasanian #silver #GallowayHoard #SilkRoad #Iran #BritishMuseum #NationalMuseumOfScotland

Taken this day, 2017, winter light casting slatted shadows across the roof beams of the main atrium in the @NtlMuseumsScot https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/32769059862/

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Taken this day, 2017, "The Oliver" https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/32559573720/

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Taken this day, 2016, the dome of Old College at night https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/32673433122/

Viewed from the roof terrace of the National Museum of Scotland (a fabulous place to take in views across Edinburgh, if you are ever visiting)

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