5-14 Curriculum: Level B
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2-3
Available at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

William Hole’s magnificent pageant frieze in the main hall provides a useful starting point for visitors to explore Scottish history. This visit will examine how events and decisions taken by people in the past have shaped the history of Scotland, and continue to affect us today.

In Spring 2008 we started to offer pre-school tours and practical workshops at both the Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery. Please contact the Schools Education Officer for details.

5-14 Curriculum: Level C
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-3
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Follow the story of Christmas and explore images of winter. Pupils can hunt for stars, skate on a frozen loch, and see what presents the three kings have brought for baby Jesus.

Curriculum for Excellence: Level 4 and Senior
All Senior visits can be adapted to Standard Grade, Access, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced Higher.
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery.

This two-hour gallery-based session is for pupils preparing for S Grade Art & Design critical activity, Higher Art question paper and Advanced Higher Visual Arts Study. Pupils will carry out formal analyses, situate artworks within an art-historical context, make judgements and express personal opinions about the artworks on display. Supporting materials will be provided.

5-14 Curriculum: Level B-F
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-2
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery.

Explore the collection through interactive drawing exercises. Encourages observation, discussion and provides a fuller understanding of the art on display. No drawing experience necessary.

5-14 Curriculum: Level D-E
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2-4
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

This visit explores the endless inspiration that travelling has provided for artists. See a sunset over Rome, enjoy Cézanne’s view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, climb Ben Ledi or trudge through Constable’s Dedham Vale, without leaving the National Gallery of Scotland.

Pre-School Duration: 45 minutes
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Taking a fun approach to looking at art, children will learn to investigate the ideas and stories hidden within a painting. Using a variety of sensory approaches and props, parents, teachers and children will be encouraged to explore the gallery and respond to selected artworks. These gallery-based sessions have been designed to assist the 3-5 curriculum.

Pre-School
Duration: 45 minutes
Available at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Join us on a journey to find out what a portrait gallery is, discover the wonderful objects that live inside and meet the people who work there. Sensory approaches and props will encourage children, parents and teachers to explore the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and selected artworks.

5-14 Curriculum: Level D
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2-3
Available at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Make an acquaintance with some celebrated Scots, both famous and infamous, and discover their contribution to the history of Scotland.

9 August – 16 November 2008
National Gallery Complex, The Mound, Edinburgh

Suitable for all levels.

Footlights will feature works from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and will look at ways in which artists over the centuries have chosen to record events and performances.

Tours and workshops are available on request.

30 May – 7 December 2008
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen St, Edinburgh

Suitable for all levels.

Heroes will examine the lives of individuals who were promoted as role models, through art and literature, in the Victorian era. With particular reference to the writer and reformer Samuel Smiles’ book Self-Help, the exhibition will re-examine what we mean by ‘Victorian values’.

Tours and workshops available on request.

19 July – 12 October 2008
National Gallery Complex, The Mound, Edinburgh

Suitable for all levels.

Impressionism & Scotland explores the Scottish taste for Impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and its impact on two generations of artists in Scotland.

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford

Tours and workshops available on request.

5-14 Curriculum: Level D
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2-4.
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Investigate the subjects, styles, materials and techniques that turned the French Academy on its head towards the end of the nineteenth century. Compare the work of Impressionist and post-Impressionist artists with paintings from the French classical tradition.

All levels.
Available at the Dean Gallery.

See the highlights of the Dean Gallery during this introductory visit. Using selected works, gallery educators will introduce your group to the modern and contemporary collection through lively discussion and activities.

Adaptable for all levels and all ages.
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

See the highlights of the National Gallery during this introductory visit. Using selected works, gallery educators will introduce your group to the collection through lively discussion and activities.

Adaptable for all levels and all ages.
Available at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Dean Gallery

See the highlights of the Gallery of Modern Art or the Dean Gallery during this introductory visit. Using selected works, gallery educators will introduce your group to the modern and contemporary collection through lively discussion and activities.

Adaptable for all levels and all ages.
Available at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

See the highlights of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery during this introductory visit. Gallery educators will introduce your group to the people and events that have shaped Scotland, through lively discussion and activities.

5-14 Curriculum: Levels  C-D
Curriculum for Excellence: Levels 2-3
Available at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Meet the people determined to return a Stuart monarch to the throne, as well as their enemies, and investigate what life was like for exiled Scots at the Jacobite court in Rome.

2 August – 26 October 2008
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen St, Edinburgh

Suitable for all levels.

This exhibition will be the first to investigate the origins of landscape photography in Scotland. It will concentrate on images produced between 1840 and 1860, and in particular on the work of John Muir Wood, arguably Scotland’s first systematic landscape photographer.

Tours and workshops available on request.

5-14 Curriculum: Level A-F
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-4 and Senior
All Senior visits can be adapted to Standard Grade, Access, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced Higher.
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Explore the rich and varied landscapes in the National Gallery’s collection and examine different techniques that artists have used to produce them.

5-14 Curriculum: Level A-E
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-2
Available at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Is a line what happens when you take a dot for a walk? What happens when you turn a line into a shape and fill it with colour? Explore these questions and many others about how artists use line and colour, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

5-14 Curriculum: Level C/D
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2-3
Available at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Come face-to-face in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery with Mary, Queen of Scots, her son James and her supporters.

5-14 Curriculum: Level C
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2-3
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Trace the building of Old and New Edinburgh through the prints and drawings in the National Gallery of Scotland’s Print Room, and see for yourself how Scotland’s capital city has grown and changed. (Maximum number 15)

5-14 Curriculum: Level A-F
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-4 and senior.
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Portraits capture the image and character of people at a given moment. Pupils are invited to use the artists’ clues to get to know the person in the painting - their personality, interests and beliefs. This visit can be extended to include a practical portraiture workshop.

5-14 Curriculum: Level A-E
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-2
Available at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

Some artists are fascinated with the challenge of using rhythm and movement in their work. Explore different techniques and approaches that artists have used in painting and sculpture.

5-14 Curriculum: Level B
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Explore the different ways in which artists have been inspired by the changing seasons around them.

Curriculum for Excellence: Level 4 and Senior
Available at the Dean Gallery.

Use the Surrealist collection to help develop skills essential for Senior Art & Design courses, such as criticism, expressing opinion and using art and design language.

Curriculum for Excellence Level 4 and Senior.
All Senior guided visits can be adapted to Standard Grade, Access, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, higher and Advanced higher level.
Available at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Develop critical and analytical skills and establish personal responses to portraits. Pupils examine composition, pose, focal point, handling of media, paint application, interpretation, use of the visual elements and choice of subject.

Curriculum for Excellence Level 4 and Senior.
All Senior guided visits can be adapted to Standard Grade, Access, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, higher and Advanced higher level.
Available at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

The visit encourages the development of critical skills, use of art and design language, ability to compare and contrast, and to express personal opinions. Works have been selected to demonstrate different responses by artists to the Natural Environment.

5-14 Curriculum: Level A/B
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Let the National Gallery of Scotland’s collection tickle your senses. Imagine the smell of eggs cooking in a painting by Diego Velázquez, feel William McTaggart’s stormy salty water splashing your face, have a nibble from Herod’s Feast by Rubens, hear the crashing Niagara Falls and see the sumptuous silks in John Singer Sargent’s Lady Agnew.

5-14 Curriculum: Level A-E
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-2
Available at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

This visit focuses on ways in which artists like Charles Jencks and Barbara Hepworth used shape and form to create unique works of art, especially on a large 3-D scale.

5-14 Curriculum: Level A-E
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-2
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Every picture has a story to tell. This visit selects some of the best works in the Gallery and encourages visitors to explore their stories through the clues that the artists have left for them.

5-14 Curriculum: Level C/D
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2-4
Available at the Dean Gallery.

Explore the influences, processes, techniques and breadth of art works produced by the late, great, Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi. This tour focuses on Paolozzi’s studio reconstruction and selected works of art at the Dean Gallery.

Curriculum for Excellence: Level 4 and Senior
All Senior visits can be adapted to Standard Grade, Access, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced Higher.
Available at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

This visit looks at how the lives of selected artists were dramatically altered by the Second World War, and how they used art as a means of expressing their experiences and beliefs.

2 August – 9 November 2008
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Suitable for all levels accompanied by school staff.

Tracey Emin is one of the most celebrated artists of her generation, yet remarkably this will be the first retrospective exhibition of her work to be held in the UK. It will include embroidered textiles, paintings, drawings, early unpublished prints, installations, photographs, sculptures, neon works and much new work, made specifically for the exhibition.

Tours and workshops available on request.

5-14 Curriculum: Level A/B
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 1-2
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. Once you start to look, you will find water everywhere in art. Find out how artists have shown this essential element in different forms such as clouds, streams, ice and snow.

5-14 Curriculum: Level D
Curriculum for Excellence: Level 2
Available at the National Gallery of Scotland.

In Scotland, the weather is a favourite subject. Almost every painting set outdoors is influenced by the climate. This visit will explore how artists have shown the weather in their work.