Stirling
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 2500 objects about the city of Edinburgh, in East Lothian, Scotland which correspond to art, decorative art, industry and legacies of slavery and empire. About 280 are relevant to the wider Scottish history collection and its categories of Scottish government, economy, literature and Scottish rural life. Scottish government is represented through approximately 227 objects of which the collection for Stirling’s churches is the largest. Overall the collection also represents monarchy (including Jacobites), nobility, national (Parliament) and local government, military medals and radical politics. There are also 58 topographic art objects representing places and properties of government and leaders, such as Stirling Castle. The Scottish economy is represented by approximately 26 objects relating to banking, weights and measures used in markets and trading, coins and bank notes, insurance and businesspeople. Scottish literature and music are represented by 9 objects objects representing posters and flyers for music festivals, concerts and events. Scottish Rural life industries are represented by 18 objects relating to farming, textiles (spinning), and districts and towns outside Stirling city. The collection date mostly from from the 18th to the late 19th centuries.
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