Twelve new museum galleries are to be unveiled for a bumper summer next year.
Crowds are expected to flock to two redeveloped aircraft hangars at the National Museum of Flight in East Fortune while the Monkey Business family exhibition, featuring everything from new fossils to Celts and then Lego architecture, marks the opening of ten extra galleries in Edinburgh.
Dr Gordon Rintoul, director of National Museums Scotland, said: “Next year is a hugely significant year for us.
"It is especially fitting that dramatic new displays of our collections of science and technology, decorative art, design and fashion will be unveiled during the Year of Innovation, Architecture, and Design.
"We are also looking forward to unveiling a transformed visitor experience at the National Museum of Flight - already one of Europe’s major aviation museums - which will showcase our outstanding collections in new and exciting ways."
In summer 2016, ten new galleries will open at the National Museum of Scotland.
Following a £14.1 million redevelopment, these will showcase over 3,000 objects from National Museums Scotland’s internationally important collections of science and technology, decorative art, design and fashion.
A large proportion of the objects will not have been seen in public for generations, if at all.
The new galleries will open in the 150th anniversary year of the opening of the original Victorian building in 1866.
Exhibits will range from Dolly the sheep to a Picasso glass sculpture, a 2.5-tonne copper cavity from CERN to shoes by Alexander McQueen.
The £3.6 million National Museum of Flight project involves the restoration of two nationally significant Second World War hangars at the Museum.
New displays will dramatically present an array of world class military, commercial and leisure aircraft with interactives, film programmes and stories of those who piloted or flew in the aircraft.
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