Venue photograph: Museum of Edinburgh (not the exempt item itself)
Venue photograph: Museum of Edinburgh (not the exempt item itself). Enric. CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Artwork / collectionEDINBURGHScotland (South)

At EDINBURGH MUSEUM, a large glass collection including an importrant group of sulphides and rare experimental pieces, and a related archive including paperwork relating to a number of Scottish glassworks.

A large glass collection including an important group of sulphides and rare experimental pieces, the archive includes paperwork relating to a number of Scottish glassworks, accounts and plans for Holyrood glassworks along with business and personal papers

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Some access wording published; Right to view without prior appointment; Watch: no email published.

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  • Some access wording published
  • Right to view without prior appointment
  • Held by or at an institution
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  • No phone published
  • No public contact details in the register
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Official museum route found

Museum of Edinburgh visitor route found

The register says the glass collection can be seen at the Museum of Edinburgh. Culture Edinburgh publishes free opening hours and contact information.

Access: The Museum of Edinburgh is free to visit and publishes daily opening hours.

Contact: Culture Edinburgh publishes 0131 529 4143 and [email protected].

Contact found outside the register

Supplemental research only: the original HMRC register fields are shown separately below.

Access

The collection can be seen at The Museum of Edinburgh

Your access rights
  • Right to view without prior appointment
  • Lent to public exhibitions
  • Shown at The Museum, the Edinburgh City Council Museum, the Museums Collection
The owner's binding undertakings

1. I undertake with respect to the collection, that during my lifetime or until it is disposed of whether by sale or gift or otherwise: (a) to keep the collection as a collection permanently in the United Kingdom and not to remove it or any part of it temporarily except for a purpose and period approved by HM Revenue and Customs ("HMRC") (b) to take reasonable steps for its preservation; these steps will include securing, in the absence of prior agreement with HMRC to the contrary, that - (i) the collection will remain on loan to and in the care and possession of The Museum of Edinburgh (ii) the Museum in consultation with the Edinburgh City Council Museum Conservation staff will assess the packaging of the archive and upgrade it as a matter of priority, with bundles to be retained and stored in archival boxes and fragile photographic material and the pattern book (H240 W355 D15) a h…

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