• Edwards

  Nat Edwards

  Education and Interpretative Services Manager

  National Library of Scotland

  As a museum curator and community activist, Nat has worked in Museums, Galleries and Archives for 20 years – developing exhibitions, education and community-based projects as well as major capital projects. In the early 1990s, with initiatives such as Glasgow’s Open Museum, he worked to challenge the boundaries of museum curatorship and the roles that museums play in communities – bringing Barlinnie inmates into the stores of Kelvingrove to curate exhibitions and taking historic collections into swimming pools and soup kitchens. More recently, he has been working to reimagine what an archive should look like, spearheading the National Library’s acquisition and interpretation of the John Murray Archive – which contains many of the biggest ideas of the nineteenth century. Last year, Nat published Caledonia’s Last Stand: In Search of the Lost Scots of Darien, looking at Scotland’s disastrous Darien Scheme.

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