Get ready for the first ever retrospective exhibition of artworks by Edinburgh-based Everlyn Nicodemus. Discover drawings, collages, paintings and textiles from the last 40 years of the artist’s life, ...

In 2025 the National Galleries of Scotland will commemorate the 250th birthday of beloved British artist JMW Turner with a once-in-a-lifetime, free exhibition. For the first time, visitors will be ...

This display collates some of the most recognisable modern and contemporary portraits from the national collection. This rich survey of paintings, sculpture and works in other media features figures ...

While Women in Revolt is on display you can book a free visit to the Paolozzi Studio. Visits are at 10am, with 10 places available each day. Eduardo Paolozzi’s studio is meticulously recreated with ...

Taking over the top level of Modern One, this changing programme of displays offers a brand new way to experience the nation's collection. Each room brings to light rarely displayed yet fascinating ...

Celebrated as the centre of classical and modern European civilisation, Italy held many attractions for eighteenth-century Scots. Artists and architects came to study its matchless heritage. Wealthy ...

Marking the 400-year anniversary of King James’s death, this exhibition will chart his remarkable reign through stories of friendship, family, feuds and ambition. Son of Mary, Queen of Scots, ...

This display is dominated by works painted in the Venetian Republic and its northern territories – at a time when it was at the height of its commercial and artistic prowess. The sixteenth century saw ...

At the centre of this display is the intriguing and gory painting of the Execution of Charles I by an unknown Dutch artist. This painting, probably based on eye-witness accounts and contemporary ...

Once the preserve of royalty and the nobility, the collecting and commissioning of paintings become progressively widespread over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both north and ...

The Glasgow Boys represent the beginnings of modernism in Scottish art. In the early 1880s, disillusioned by the artistic establishment’s emphasis on history painting, they recorded contemporary rural ...

At the beginning of the sixteenth century Scotland was a Catholic state governed by the Stewart dynasty (who later spelled their name Stuart). By the close of the seventeenth century the monarchy, ...