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Three people stand in a grand room in a country house. A polar bear rug lies on the floor. All three are holding vacuum-cleaner-type devices in the air, as well as wearing purple nitrile gloves.
12 Mar 2019

Mothbusting at Newhailes

We’re putting Newhailes’ precious collections in the deep freeze to stop the moths damaging them.

15 Feb 2019

Can I touch that?

Revealing the significance of objects in the Trust’s collections helps make them more accessible.

Three people stand in a grand drawing room, holding small vacuum cleaners in the air.
4 Feb 2019

Who you gonna call? Mothbusters!

Mothbusters have been called in to halt Newhailes’ bothersome bug problem.

1 Feb 2019

Janus – the god of January – looks at Project Reveal’s progress

Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings, looks forwards and backwards. Here we do that for Project Reveal.

Haggis and cheese scones in a basket
24 Jan 2019

Haggis & cheese scones

If you can’t pop into the RBBM Café to try our haggis & cheese scones, you can make them at home.

A man wearing a white hard hat and a yellow hi-vis jacket stands holding very wide architectural plans. Behind him are steel beams and a scaffold-like structure on its side.
22 Jan 2019

Work begins to build the Hill House Box

We’ve reached a major milestone in our effort to save Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s iconic building, as steel beams have been craned into place.

17 Jan 2019

Scenery’s supporting role for Mary Queen of Scots

Scotland’s most famous glen features in the new Mary Queen of Scots film.

17 Dec 2018

Photographing the unseen

In Kellie Castle, the Dining Room walls are covered by wooden painted panels. On some we can see traces of earlier decoration, before they were repainted. This article explains how we photographed these original drawings.

14 Dec 2018

It’s time for the winter deep clean

Every winter deep cleans take place across the Trust, and Kellie Castle is now in the final year of its 5-year deep clean cycle.