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Title	Museum of Scotland Building
Alternate Title	National Museum of Scotland
View	Circular entry tower, detail which evokes 'broch' tower construction
Notes	The entry is marked by the sentinel-like circular tower on the corner of Chambers Street, which evokes the Half Moon Battery, Edinburgh Castle. A broch is a cylindrical Iron Age hollow-wall drystone construction unique to Scotland
Work Type	buildings exhibition buildings museums buildings exhibition buildings museums art museums
Style/Period	Modernist Twentieth century
Creator Name	Benson + Forsyth
Creator Nationality	British
Subject.work	architecture contemporary (1960 to present) Art museums Museology history museum
Country	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
State/Province	Scotland
Location.Notes	Chambers Street and George IV Bridge
Architectural Material	gold Moray sandstone facade; steel; glass
Technique	construction (assembling)
Dates	1991-1998 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/3/2009
Subject Information	Benson & Forsyth (Gordon Benson and Alan Forysth) were nominated for the Stirling Prize in 1999 for the Museum of Scotland design, their first major building (winning competition design, 1991). The spaces and shapes echo Modernism and Le Corbusier, but also reference the context of Old Town. The yellow Moray sandstone cladding also speaks to Scottish history. The main feature is the circular entrance tower, which echoes the Edinburgh castle battery (the Half Moon Battery). The center has a dramatic seven story high triangular glass atrium flooded with daylight. Stairs and walkways connect the galleries on the different levels. The building was controversial in part because it adjoins the (former) Royal Museum, a very notable Victorian Italianate building (1861-1888). The two collections (Museum of Scotland and Royal Museum) were formally merged under the name National Museum of Scotland in 2006. The collections in the 1998 building cover Scottish history in an essentially chronological arrangement, beginning with prehistory to the early medieval period at the lowest level, with later periods in the higher levels.
Information.source	Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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