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A portrait of a young woman wearing a blue dress and holding one finger to her cheek.
12 Sept 2018

Lady Mary Pierrepont

We reveal the story behind an often-overlooked painting of a remarkable woman.

7 Sept 2018

Stay away from the trapdoor!

There are hidden delights, not creepy horrors, to be found in the Gallery at Broughton House.

A large warehouse-like space is filled with old agricultural equipment, including wooden ploughs and cartwheels.
4 Sept 2018

Into the heart of Angus’s agricultural past

Our Project Reveal Collections Assistant shines a light on the Angus Folk Museum’s agricultural collections.

23 Aug 2018

The doctor will see you now

Project Reveal delves into the medical collections held by the National Trust for Scotland.

A view from a hillside looking out across a horseshoe-shaped bay on a sunny day.
21 Aug 2018

The collection at the edge of the world

Project Reveal goes in search of the National Trust for Scotland’s most remote collection.

A black and white photo of Inverewe House with its white stone walls and grey slate roof.
20 Aug 2018

Inverewe House: phoenix from the ashes

Set among the exotic plants that thrive in Inverewe Garden, this elegant house hasn’t always looked this way.

An oil painting of three young girls sitting at the edge of a beach, with pink and white roses trailing about them.
1 Aug 2018

Hornel’s photographic eye and the influence of Japanese photography: part 3

The photographs Edward Atkinson Hornel saw in, and brought back from, Japan had a profound effect on his later paintings.

A very large group of people stand in front of a photo wall in an office, looking towards the camera. Three people at the front hold a large key between them.
27 Jul 2018

Project Reveal – One year on and 12 months of progress

To celebrate the first anniversary of Project Reveal, we’ve chosen a selection of images which illustrate the diverse range of objects in the Trust’s collections.

A colourised photo of a Japanese woman kneeling on the floor and arranging irises in a metal urn.
25 Jul 2018

Hornel’s photographic eye and the influence of Japanese photography: part 2

In Japan in 1893, Edward Atkinson Hornel was exposed to a wide variety of different types of Japanese photography.