Join us across our four galleries for a summer of new exhibitions that will intrigue, fascinate and delight. The celebrated Scottish artist presents new paintings made in response to the practice of eighteenth-century portrait artist Allan Ramsay. Over the last three decades, Thomas Joshua Cooper has circumnavigated the globe making incredible photographs of some of the most extreme locations surrounding the Atlantic Ocean.
200 young people across Scotland have contributed to help re-invent Scottish history by imaginatively 'mashing-up' works from the National Galleries of Scotland collection. National Galleries Scotland and Edinburgh Art Festival partner to present this ambitious installation on the life and times of Frederick Douglass.
200 young people across Scotland have contributed to help re-invent Scottish history by imaginatively 'mashing-up' works from the National Galleries of Scotland collection. National Galleries Scotland and Edinburgh Art Festival partner to present this ambitious installation on the life and times of Frederick Douglass.
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Art, in one form or another, has been around since the Stone Age, and to this day, museums and galleries welcome hundreds of millions of visitors every year. But why is this? In this new series devoted to Scottish Art, we look at paintings by some of the nation's finest artists. We examine them to uncover what makes each work so special and reveal some of the stories behind them.
As well as caring for, preserving and presenting the artworks in our care to the broadest possible public, an essential activity for the National Galleries of Scotland is to continue to acquire artworks that enhance and complement our collection. These can come to us by many different means; including purchases, gifts and loans.
Explore Scotland's national collection of art with your students to help them think about art in new ways. In order to help protect the health of our staff and visitors during this difficult time, we have closed all of our Galleries. The National Galleries of Scotland art competition for schools is still going ahead but with an updated deadline for entries.
Horse McDonald is an iconic and unique singer-songwriter and is one of Scotland's most celebrated singers. She has been writing, recording and performing for over thirty years. Q magazine described her as owning 'one of the finest voices of modern times, soul and intelligence combined.' This portrait captures Horse's charismatic and enthralling performance style.
We are not currently able to offer schools visits but we hope to be able to offer them again soon. Sign up to our schools email newsletter to make sure you hear from us when we do or contact us with your enquiry. In the meantime, take a look at our online learning resources for ideas to engage learners with art, wherever you are.
Reviews (17)
Lyn Blythe
Jan 26, 2022
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Sadly I’m too far away to visit, but I really want to highly recommend the National Galleries of Scotland’s online shop. I bought their scarves, which are fabulous quality, and I’m especially impressed not only with their speed of posting out, but also using only environmentally sustainable packaging - a massive thumbs up and thanks from me!
Susan Gloag
Jan 23, 2022
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Suzie Donaldson
Jan 16, 2022
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We made a special trip just to see the harryhausen exhibit. Wow! We weren't expecting to be as many items to be displayed, so well laid out and plenty of information. Staff were brilliant, and more than happy… to show us where to go or give us information. We even met a lovely lady from London who was spending the weekend in Edinburgh just to see the exhibit.
Doaa Khater
Jan 14, 2022
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Iddo Oberski
Jan 13, 2022
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I'm giving this three stars because, despite the exhibitions being very worthwhile, there's no disabled parking at the museum. Once you're at the entrance then it's fully accessible, but it's disappointing that with the refurbishment of the gallery no thought was put into maintaining some parking for blue badge holders as they used to have. The Turner exhibition is always worthwhile even though it's a smaller selection of work this year (Jan 2022).
Matt Graves
Dec 26, 2021
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We hadn't planned to go here but due to rain we decided to have a look around. I was pleasantly surprised with the number of historic masters paintings in the small gallery. Well worth a visit if you are in Edinburgh, for a quick look allow about 45 min and a few hours if you want to spend time reading the detail.
Monica W.
Dec 20, 2021
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Caius Bernardi
Nov 30, 2021
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Paulo Goncalves
Nov 15, 2021
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D. M.
Oct 12, 2021
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Pete Bell
Oct 10, 2021
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Tina Thompson
Oct 04, 2021
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Asha Tank
Oct 01, 2021
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Gus Guthrie
Sep 14, 2021
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Miles Macdonald
Sep 11, 2021
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First class gallery exhibiting a wide range of art from different periods of history and different artistic movements. The exhibition covers art from around 1300 to early 20th century and includes Rococo, Neo-Classical, Impressionist, Post Impressionist and much more besides. Artists include Constable, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Gainsborough, Pissarro, Monet, Degas, Poussin and many more. Everyone will have their favourites, but you can't ignore the magnificent painting of the Stag, "Monarch of the Glen" by Edwin Landseer. This famous image is reproduced on so many tins of biscuits I've received
Corinne Whitham
Sep 08, 2021
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Darren
Aug 25, 2021
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This isn't really my type of place to visit but to my surprise I really enjoyed it a lot, the ground floor has some really nice pieces of work. Every piece is accompanied with a blurb or description. I would personally say even children from the age of 9 upwards would like it.
There is easy accessibility to the entrance, one set of stairs to the first floor, (I can't remember if there was a lift to the first floor).
You can take pictures of all the artwork but the use of flash is not permitted, it's free to enter and they do have a couple of contactless (£10) donation points. The staff are plentiful
There is easy accessibility to the entrance, one set of stairs to the first floor, (I can't remember if there was a lift to the first floor).
You can take pictures of all the artwork but the use of flash is not permitted, it's free to enter and they do have a couple of contactless (£10) donation points. The staff are plentiful
