TY - JOUR TI - Collecting the personal: stories of domestic energy and everyday life at the National Museum of Scotland AU -Elsa Cox AU -Katarina Grant AU -Haileigh Robertson PY - 2018 VL - Special Issue: The Material Culture of Energy IS - Spring 2018 KW - collecting KW - energy KW - museums KW - personal stories KW - Scotland AB - Energise is one of ten award-winning new galleries at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Aimed at a family audience, it explores the sources, generation, distribution and use of energy and questions how science and technology may transform how we power our lives in the future. This short case-study account details three objects in Energise around which we adopted a focus on personal stories that tell us about the experiences of users and developers. PB - The Science Museum Group SN - 2054-5770 LA - eng DO - 10.15180/180910 UR - https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/domestic-energy-and-everyday-life/ T2 - Science Museum Group Journal