National Museum of Scotland

This guide to the National Museum of Scotland centers on the Lewis chessmen, a hoard of ivory chess pieces found buried in a sand dune on the Isle of Lewis in 1831 by a crofter named Malcolm MacLeod. You'll hear how the pieces passed through a chain of dealers who split the hoard between London and Edinburgh, and how Scottish politicians have argued since 2007 that they belong back together. It follows the ownership dispute through the British Museum's response and an uneasy compromise that still leaves almost everyone unsatisfied.