National Museums Scotland
Rachel Walcott serves as the Principal Curator of Earth Systems at National Museums Scotland since April 2011, leading a team in the research and management of a diverse collection of 70,000 minerals, rocks, and meteorites. Rachel has contributed to geo-data infrastructure development as co-chair of the Mineral Extension for Darwin Core Task Group. Prior experience includes a Royal Society of Edinburgh BP Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, a Visiting Scientist position at GNS Science, and technical authoring at Midland Valley, among others. Educational qualifications include a PhD in Neotectonics from Utrecht University, an MSc in Structural Geology from the University of Otago, and a BSc(hons) in Geology and Geophysics from the same institution.
National Museums Scotland
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At National Museums Scotland, we care for collections of national and international importance, preserving them, interpreting them and making them accessible to as many people as possible. We work with museums and communities across Scotland and beyond, introducing our collections to a much wider audience than can physically visit our museums, through partnerships, research, touring exhibitions, community engagement, digital programmes and loans. Our wealth of treasures represent more than two centuries of collecting. Collections take in everything from Scottish and classical archaeology to decorative and applied arts; from world cultures and social history to science, technology and the natural world. We also provide advice, expertise and support to the museums' community across Scotland. We have four museum sites which open to the public each showing different parts of the collections: the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune Airfield, East Lothian the National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride the National War Museum Scotland, Edinburgh Castle In addition, our National Museums Collection Centre is based in Granton, Edinburgh, and houses literally millions of items - from our collection of 1.2 million insects and classic cars to whale skeletons!