Museums - National Museums Collection Centre

Opened in 1996 in Granton, Edinburgh, the National Museums Collection Centre is the main collections storage unit for the National Museums of Scotland. Expanded with new conservation laboratories and storage capacity in the early twenty-first century, the Collection Centre contains large bodies of archaeological artifacts from Europe and the Mediterranean, Scottish and European art and material culture, global ethnographic art, and natural science specimens. The Centre's World Cultures collections include important ancient and antique works from Egypt, the Near East, China, Tibet, Japan, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas. There are significant early North Athapaskan collections from the Canadian Sub-Arctic collected by Scottish traders, as well as Pacific collections from early European explorations, including objects from the voyages of Captain Cook and the Challenger Expedition. The Centre also contains the Jean Jenkins Collection of sound archives, representing Jenkins' pioneering work in gathering examples of the indigenous music of Africa, India, and the Middle East in the twentieth century.
Public access to the Collection Centre is limited and may be arranged by appointment.