Scottish Burghs
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 500 objects, dating from around 1200 to 1889, from Scottish rural and urban Burghs outside Glasgow which include, but are not limited to, the cities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, St Andrews and Dundee and the towns of Dumfries, Ayr, Falkirk, and Haddington, as well as villages and country houses like Hamilton Palace. This collection includes a diverse range of material including portraits of civic leaders and nobles, weaponry, glass, metalwork, topographical art, measures, bank notes, trade tokens, seal impressions, Communion tokens, liturgical equipment, and equipment used to work in both city trades and rural industries. Objects relating to Scottish nobility include 16th century textile panels produced for Lochleven Castle, prints of the Earl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Perth, and a painting of the Earl of Haddington, as well as silverware bearing the heraldic arms from 1701 to 1702. Local government objects include a portrait of Haddington's Lord Provost, two painted portraits and one tassie medallion of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and a portrait of that town council's treasurer. Scottish burghs were towns or municipalities which existed in Scotland from the 12th century. They had the ability to govern their own affairs and were for the most part independent; however they were abolished in 1975 to make way for the establishment of district councils, which were then replaced in 1996 with the current local authority system.
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