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Professor Christopher Breward was appointed the new director of National Museums Scotland just over a year ago.
However he also revealed that the attraction was likely to move away from staging major touring exhibitions in future, admitting that museums around the world were already debating the “real cost” of such shows before the Covid-19 outbreak, which closed down the museum for five months in 2020, due to their carbon footprint.
Professor Breward, a former principal of Edinburgh College of Art, said there had been a “deliberate choice” to focus on largely Scottish content in his exhibitions programme in 2021, which will focus on the Galloway Hoard, the Viking-age treasures acquired by the museum three years ago following their discovery by a metal detectorist in Dumfries and Galloway, the writer Sir Walter Scott and Scotland’s response to the climate emergency.
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