Science -- Your Future, Scotland's Future

Here's a collection of miscellaneous pictures from our ten days at the Museum of Scotland and the Royal Museum. As usual, larger versions can be seen by clicking on each image or its accompanying title.

Natalia and the giant bubble...
A spinning parent
The LERU Kids' University posters
A wavetank, a duck, and a technician
Kathrin Hagmeir and a cheery T4 bacteriophage
More giant bubbles
The Millennium Clock Tower
The Royal Museum's totem pole
The Millennium Clock Tower, built by architect Tim Stead, sculptor Eduard Bersudsky, clock maker Jürgen Tübbecke and glass artist Annica Sandström, "...a massive culmination of human artistic achievement, created by four masters for the Scottish Millennium Festival, to commemorate the human suffering of the twentieth century, embodied and entrapped within the endless prisons of time."

The image above is a composite, made from six elements. Click below for a medium-sized image. Larger versions (up to 3000 x 9000 pixels) are available on request.

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Find out more about the clock here.

The 1855 totem pole carved by Oyea Tait, set up in the main entrance hall of the Royal Museum in Chambers Street. It's been there since 1930, when it was brought from Canada to Scotland (shipped in one piece, apparently...)

Again, there are three different versions of the image. Click below for a medium-sized image. Larger versions (up to 1600 x 7500 pixels) are available on request.

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