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The first ever Broons annual (foreground) and the 2024 annual (background)

Oor Wullie and the Broons braw weekend

Central
Events
Events
Exhibitions
Children and Young People
A sketch of an umbrella and hat blown away in a hoolie. cropped

Why does it always rain on me

Exhibitions
Climate
Exhibitions
Items from the national collections going to Shetland

Final leg of National Library’s Centenary tour heading to Shetland

Exhibitions
Centenary
Exhibitions
Mary's signature on her last letter

National Library to send Mary, Queen of Scots’ Last Letter to Perth

Central
Exhibitions
Centenary
Announcements
Exhibitions
Historic Manuscripts
3 people sitting down and chatting on a stage in front of a room of audience-members.

National Library ramps up 100th birthday celebrations

Central
Centenary
Events
Exhibitions
‘Renaissance: Scotland and Europe 1480–1630’ opens on Friday 21 June and runs until April next year at George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. Model: Liz Hamilton Credit: Phil Wilkinson

National Library of Scotland has its Renaissance moment

Central
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The first ever Broons annual (foreground) and the 2024 annual (background)

National Library acquires first-ever Broons annual

Acquisitions and Donations
Exhibitions
Fiddler Aidan O'Rourke in the General Collections Reading Room at the National Library of Scotland's George IV Bridge building. Credit: Neil Hanna

Music to fill National Library’s reading rooms

Events
Events
Exhibitions
The First Folio rests on a pillow and is open at the title page, showing a portrait of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare’s First Folio to go on display

Historic Manuscripts
Exhibitions
Capital Gaelic Development Officer Ann Paterson shares Gaelic folktales with P6 pupils from Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce, Edinburgh. Credit: Neil Hanna

National Library launches first ever Gaelic language exhibition

Exhibitions
Curator Dora Petherbridge with the Milestone House visitor book, open on the page the (then) Princess of Wales signed on her visit in October 1991. The visitor book is one of items that will be on display. Credit: with kind permission from Waverley Care.

New exhibition explores Scotland’s HIV story

Research Collaborations
Exhibitions
Sketch by John Francis Campbell, thought to be made with peat. The sketch shows a vision of many different characters that appear in Gaelic folktales, from the medieval heroes (at the back) to mythical and supernatural beings, such as witches, cats, water creatures etc. Campbell later developed this

Sgeulachdan Gàidhlig a chaidh a shàbhaladh dhan an àm ri teachd nam fòcas do thaisbeanadh mòr

 

Exhibitions
Historic Manuscripts