Qualla: Museum on the Mound https://qualla.com/museum-on-the-mound en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-on-the-mound-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Museum on the Mound https://qualla.com/museum-on-the-mound Museum on the Mound: Introduction https://qualla.com/museum-on-the-mound/ Photo credit Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0. The name itself is a wink: MUS£UM ON THE MOUND, with a pound sign standing in for the E. Tucked into the basement of the old Bank of Scotland headquarters at the top of the Mound, the museum exists for the simplest of reasons. The building handled money for three centuries, and somewhere along the way the bank decided that money itself deserved a museum. Walk down into the basement of a Baroque Revival pile crowned with a green dome, and you find yourself face to face with a Bank of England note worth one million pounds.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-on-the-mound-wp/gcvw-museum-on-the-mound-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Museum on the Mound: A Bank That Made Its Own Notes https://qualla.com/museum-on-the-mound/ Photo credit Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Bank of Scotland was founded in 1695, only a year after the Bank of England, and from the start it did something unusual: it printed its own banknotes. It still does. That right, peculiar to a handful of Scottish banks, runs through the museum's collection like a thread. Case...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-on-the-mound-wp/gcvw-museum-on-the-mound-a-bank-that-made-its-own-notes.mp3 0:06 2 full Museum on the Mound: The Baroque Pile on the Mound https://qualla.com/museum-on-the-mound/ Photo credit Suicasmo, CC BY-SA 4.0. The building is half the story. Designed in the Palladian style by Richard Crichton and Robert Reid and finished in 1806, it was reworked twice in the 19th century, first by David Bryce in 1863 and then by John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear in 1878. The Mound itself is artifici...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-on-the-mound-wp/gcvw-museum-on-the-mound-the-baroque-pile-on-the-mound.mp3 0:06 3 full Museum on the Mound: Ian Rankin and the Rebirth https://qualla.com/museum-on-the-mound/ Photo credit Ole Julius Berg, CC BY-SA 4.0. The museum has lived more than one life. A modest display of artefacts opened in a single basement room in 1986, by appointment only, with the crime novelist Ian Rankin doing the honours at the launch. For twenty years it stayed small and quiet. In 2006 the bank reopened it as a ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/museum-on-the-mound-wp/gcvw-museum-on-the-mound-ian-rankin-and-the-rebirth.mp3 0:06 4 full Museum on the Mound: Why Money, Here https://qualla.com/museum-on-the-mound/ Photo credit Gary Campbell-Hall from Edinburgh, UK, CC BY 2.0. Edinburgh has banking in its bones. The Scottish Enlightenment produced Adam Smith and the foundations of modern economics; the city's lawyers and merchants built one of Europe's earliest financial centres. The Museum on the Mound makes that intellectual lineage tangible. There a...

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