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Call for national museum of Scottish emigrants

The achievements of Scottish emigrants should be celebrated in a national museum, according to the SNP [Scottish Nationalist Party].

The party has called for a new museum to be created in Edinburgh to record the accomplishments of Scots such as philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

SNP Lothians MSP Kenny MacAskill said there were up to 80 million people across the world who claimed to be of Scottish descent.
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