We are surrounded by the bones of whales; blue whales, sperm whales, killer whales, bottlenose whales and many more. This is the ground floor of the National Museum Collection Centre. “In natural science it’s at least 10 million.”These are the artefacts that you won’t see at the National Museum in Chambers Street in Edinburgh. Still, those 10 million or so samples are key to the work of the National Museum. Giants opens at the National Museum Scotland on January 31 and runs until September 14.

Source: The Herald January 24, 2026 14:07 UTC