ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the opportunity to widen the focus across the Museum’s material spectrum of science, nature, art, culture and all things Scottish. In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth, given the limited space in the Museum, the only practical means of fulfilling its objective to represent much of ‘the industry of the world in relation to Scotland’ was in miniature. National Museums Scotland holds 13 sets of wooden crystal models, comprising around 2000 individual models. In the early twentieth century, the Museum workshop introduced a new initiative which involved copying in a different dimension: Movement. Not only would the material form of a machine be represented, but so too could the choreography of its component parts. The models could be handled; and the combination of carton colle and carton pate allowed for multiple parts to be cast and slotted together.
