The collection is composed of:
- Conceptual briefs, reports and drawings including reports on the various themes for the new museum; exhibition briefs; and, material directly relating to themes on Beginnings, the Church, Jacobites, Enlightenment, the Union, the Victorians and Edwardians, Land, Trade and Industry.
- Museum zone drawings, plans and layouts; and more material on the various themes of Trade, Industry, Commerce, Money, and the Church.
- Museum 2nd Floor sign-off report; reviews, reports etc; and, material on the First Peoples theme
- Newspaper cuttingObserver Review8 November 1998; copy ofA nation in armsScottish United Services Museum; copy of the Bute Report, Museum, 1985; copy ofMuseum of Scotland project; copy ofGuide to NMS collections; material on acquisitions and disposal policy; various annual reports; and, report on themes, outlines of themes for the new museum.
- Report of the National Museums of Scotland, Museum of Scotland, prepared by T.B.V. Dangerfield entitledBeginnings. Phase 1 Report, November 1995.