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Museums: Workshop of the world

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Colin Macilwain talks to the curators of the National Museum of Scotland on the eve of a grand expansion.

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  1. Colin Macilwain is a science-policy journalist, based in Edinburgh, and editor of the policy newsletter Research Europe.,

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