Image: The People's Palace and Winter Gardens. Rights: Wikimedia/Kim Traynor, CC 2.0
If museums tell us what’s important to a nation’s identity, then what do visitors expect to find in Scottish museums? Tartan, whisky, and a load of blether about Bonnie Prince Charlie?
Or how about displays bringing to life trips to the seaside and tenement housing, the Big Yin’s banana boots, Rab C Nesbit’s string vest, and exhibits showing how centuries of ordinary people worked, shopped, laundered, dated, went to war, and – crucially – fought back against the capitalists?
