Rick, I read part of that book and could not get into it (though I thought the idea of a Scottish space fleet interesting).
There is one exception to this forboding. Here in Louisville, KY, US we have things like the Frazier Arms Museum.
Although attendance is lower than what they would have liked, it displays arms and adds martial and historical re-enactments to the show. Most of the arms displayed come from the basement of the Royal Armouries in Great Britain. Although mostly European and American in focus, there is a smatering of ethnographic stuff. Some of us on this forum have visited and enjoyed.
On a side note, I was originally asked to be a consultant for the museum until the original group working on the internet portion fell apart. Now I'm just another customer.
