Mary, Queen of Scots' casket
May 20 2022
Video: National Museum of Scotland
The National Museum of Scotland has acquired an exceptional French silver letter casket which once belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots. In the video above, Dr Anna Groundwater, Principal Curator of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the Museum tells us why it's so important. And on this special website there's a whizzy high resolution 3D scan of the casket, which you can zoom in and out of, including the inside. Wouldn't it be great if all museum objects could be photographed like this?
More on the acquisition here.
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