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The Chambers Street Museum is perhaps the best monument of its late energetic and laborious chief. Edinburgh men who remember the modest beginnings in the old Argyle Square under the genial inspiration of the late Professor George Wilson ....
Founded in 1854, the new museum (popularly known as the Chambers Street Museum) was formed from the merging of Edinburgh University's Museum of Natural History with the Industrial Museum; and it was completed in 1864 as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art.
[in 1866] it was renamed the Museum of Science and Art. From the beginning, it was a National Museum; administered first by the Department of Science and Art and from 1901 by the Scottish Education Department. It was renamed again in 1904 as the Royal Scottish Museum