National Trust for Scotland news

Scotland's UNESCO World Heritage Sites are being brought together through the world’s first ever UNESCO digital trail. The trail connects the country’s 13 place-based UNESCO ... More

Plans have been lodged by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) to build a vertical gallery and bird hide in a 19th-century botanical garden in ... More

National Trust for Scotland will spend £57m (US$76.1m, £65m) on the country's built and natural heritage, the largest and most ambitious programme for investment the ... More

Two architecture studios hope to show how remote heritage sites can be served by ‘satellite’ visitor centres through their own design for a tourist hub ... More

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has announced plans for a restructure of its services designed to improve performances of its assets and to cut ... More

Amid important changes at English Heritage, the organisation has announced the appointment of Kate Mavor as chief executive of its new charity arm. Mavor makes ... More

The Scottish Government will provide £80,000 to establish a Skills Development Fund, which has been developed by Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS). Applications of up to ... More

Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has confirmed that funding is now in place for work to commence on the new Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre ... More

Eight National Trust for Scotland properties have been officially accredited as attractions by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). Brodick Castle, Broughton House, Culross ... More

A new Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre is to open ahead of the 700th anniversary of the historic event in 2014 after receiving planning permission ... More

Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland (NTS) have revealed the first designs of the proposed new Battle of Bannockburn visitor centre, which is ... More

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is seeking feedback on its management plan for St. Kilda, the UK's only mixed World Heritage Site. The plan ... More

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has revealed that an anonymous £600,000 donation to the Hugh Miller Museum and Birthplace Cottage in Cromarty was made ... More

A public fundraising initiative has raised £90,000 for The National Trust for Scotland's (NTS) new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, due to open to ... More

Hutchesons' Hall in Glasgow, the National Trust for Scotland's (NTS) Merchant City landmark, is to get a makeover this summer. Working with the Glasgow Building ... More

Work has started on a project to create new visitor facilities at the National Trust for Scotland's Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve in Perthshire that ... More

The Canadian Hall at the National Trust for Scotland's Haddo House near Ellon is being repainted, after becoming a Category B listed building earlier in ... More