Overview
The idea of a shared Celtic heritage across ancient Europe retains a powerful hold over the popular imagination. But many common ideas about the people known as ‘Celts’ are in fact more recent reimaginings, revived and reinvented over the centuries.
This major exhibition, organised in partnership with the British Museum, unravels the complex story of the different groups who have used or been given the name ‘Celts’ through the extraordinary art objects they made and used.
Discover magnificent Iron Age treasures adorned with intricate patterns and fantastic animals, used for feasting, religious ceremonies, adornment and warfare. Learn how these distinctive art styles were transformed and took on new influences in response to the expanding Roman world and the spread of Christianity. Then examine how the decorative arts of the late 19th century were inspired by different ideas about Europe’s past, and played a key role in defining what it meant to be Irish, Welsh, Scottish and British.
Organised with the British Museum. Supported by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers.
Adult £10
Concession £8
Child (12—15) £6.50
Under 12s free National Museums Scotland members free
When
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Where
National Museum of Scotland
Chambers Street,
Edinburgh, EH1 1JF
