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25 Sept 2020

Craigievar Castle gets its own Instagram AR filter

One of the country’s smallest castles becomes Scotland’s biggest ever augmented reality Instagram filter.

A painted scene with a rugged hillside in the foreground, rising higher on the right, dotted with trees and ochre coloured Italian houses that are lit by the sun. A dusty brown road winds from right to left. Men and women dressed in peasant clothes walk along the road. The hillside gives way in the middle ground to a curved bay filled with blue water and edged on the left hand side by the impression of streets full of light brown houses. In the background is a scene of two, grey, peaked mountains. The one on the right has smoke coming from the top, seen against a light blue sky.
25 Sept 2020

From the sublime to the ridiculous?

To celebrate World Tourism Day on Sunday 27 September, we voyage around the world through items in our collection, looking back across 300 years of travel and tourism.

A winding path through some sparse woodland.
24 Sept 2020

Discover our Hidden History Trails

Come and explore Scotland’s secret past!

Colourful antimacassars on the back of a high-backed couch.
23 Sept 2020

The Hill House: antimacassars

If you already know what an antimacassar is, give yourself a gold star! Find out more about these beautiful and ornate items designed by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.

A close-up of a large, bright flower, shaped a little like a sun, against green leaves in the background. It has bright orange petals with a red stripe down the centre of each one. There is a brown ring around the yellow centre.
22 Sept 2020

From café to compost

During Recycle Week 2020, we find out about a win-win initiative at Inverewe that helps the plants and saves us money.

A large willow sculpture, shaped like an onion, stands in a flower bed in front of a tall stone wall. The sculpture has an opening at the front, so people can stand or sit inside. The surrounding flower beds have many staked colourful flowering plants, A gravel path runs in front of the beds.
21 Sept 2020

New willow sculptures at Culzean

The sculptures celebrate the garden as a productive space that generates a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, which are both sold and used in the café on the estate.

Black and white caricature of a man in a large white wig seated at a table, being attended to by a servant.
21 Sept 2020

Looking good

We take a look at the history of beauty through some of the items in our collections.

A photograph of the statue of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, surrounded by parkland and with a row of trees in the background.
21 Sept 2020

Bannockburn benefits from heritage emergency fund

Bannockburn received £250K from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

A single apple tree stands in a woodchip plot, in the middle of a neat lawn. It has very wide horizontal branches, with smaller ones almost standing vertically towards the sky. It is covered in green leaves.
18 Sept 2020

An autumn apple feast at Brodie Castle

As we prepare to celebrate ‘International Eat an Apple Day’ (19 September), we delve into the past at Brodie Castle to find out the story behind their apple collection.

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