This long-lost tomb will be the centrepiece of a special display in the town next year. Dunfermline Abbey was its original home and residents and visitors will be able to see it as a result of 3D and digital reconstruction, made possible due to lengthy digital and detective work over a number of years.
Historic Environment Scotland was the organisation driving these efforts, with several other national bodies collaborating on the project alongside them. Now the royal tomb, which is made of white marble and has a canopy, has been recreated digitally.
It has gone on show as of this month in Dunfermline’s Stirling Smith Art Gallery, but the director of the gallery, Elspeth King, has told the Dunfermline Press that a permanent home for the exhibit will be established at some point during 2017. King added:
“Historical, sculptural, scientific and digital information has been used to model it in virtual form, and to place it in its architectural setting in the choir of Dunfermline Abbey.”
Those responsible for exhibitions of this kind can always rely on the help of places offering postcard printing, if they want to offer souvenirs.