National Museums Scotland
Sam Alberti serves as the Director of Collections at National Museums Scotland since April 2016, with additional roles including Interim Keeper of Art and Design and Keeper of Science and Technology. Since the same year, Sam has also held the position of Honorary Professor at the University of Stirling. Previous experience includes a Cain Short-Term Fellowship at the Science History Institute (2016-2017) and Director of Museums and Archives at The Royal College of Surgeons of England (2010-2016). Academic contributions include a James M Graham Visiting Professorship at The University of Edinburgh (2014-2015) and a Visiting Senior Research Fellowship at King’s College London (2011-2015). Sam began a career in academia at The University of Manchester (2001-2010) as a Lecturer and Research Fellow. Educational qualifications include a PhD in History of Science from the University of Oxford and an MSc in History of Science from Imperial College London, complemented by a Bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences from Durham University.
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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!