Museum to offer mobile scheme

THE National Museum of Scotland is to deploy new technology to allow visitors to download rare footage charting the modern history of the nation to their mobile phones.

The city attraction is piloting the use of small barcode-style squares attached to dozens of glass cases housing exhibits to allow access to archive material.

The information, which can be instantly scanned to visitors' smartphones, includes film footage and grainy photographs of factory workers, soldiers and families from history, along with celebrity interviews and historical occasions.