The National Museum of Scotland celebrates 250 years since the coronation of Catherine the Great with an exhibition of more than 600 items from the State Hermitage Museum.

The first major international exhibition at the refurbished National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh looks at the ancient Egyptian rituals surrounding death and the afterlife through an exciting array of treasures from the museum's own collections and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.

Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone was born in March 2013 in Blantyre, near Glasgow. Events across Scotland and Africa celebrate his life and legacy.

The 20th anniversary of the film Jurassic Park has inspired the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh to put together the country's largest ever exhibition of amber.

The inventor of a giant clock, replacing numbers and hands with slits of light which tell the time every five minutes, says it could make other timekeepers "seem rather boring".