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Conversations with the Collection | A conversation piece (audio tour)

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Scotland in Europe | Curating Connections from 1939 to the Present

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Talks & Lectures | In Focus: In the Orchard by Sir James Guthrie

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talks & Lectures | ‘Spinsters' and Influencers: Women Collectors of Impressionism

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talks & Lectures | Counted: Gingers

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talks & Lectures | Hepworth: Operating Theatre/Opera and Theatre

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Conversations with the Collection | Welcome Audio Tour

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Conservation | Mounting and framing Jazz

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Edinburgh Through Art | City Walking Tour

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Visually Impaired Tour | Conversations with the Collection

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Life Hacks Project | Youth led, visual art interventions in North Ayrshire

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Talks & Lectures | Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life

5 minute read

Audio and Video Artists
Bloodlines | Amie Siegel in conversation

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Scotland's Photograph Album tour | Stornoway concert

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Edyta Majewska | Other White

10 minute read

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Talks & Lectures | Counted: Scotland’s Census Eigg panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
New Arrivals podcast | Marie Harnett

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Who was...

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Find Your Surreal

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Amara Eno | The 25 Percent

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema | Women in Animation panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Mahtab Hussain | You Get Me?

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Danny North | As I Found Her: A Portrait of Eigg

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Art in the open | At home

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Not Seeing Straight: Celebrating Queer Art

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
The World's Edge | Cartography panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
New Arrivals podcast | At the Edge of Town by Peter Doig

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
New Arrivals podcast | Bachelorette by France-Lise McGurn

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Discovering Harryhausen

5 minute read

Audio and Video
COP26 | Is culture the untapped ally for climate action?

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
The World's Edge | Thomas Joshua Cooper in conversation

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Climate Action Needs Culture

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
New Arrivals podcast | Portrait of Max Ernst by Leonora Carrington

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Visually Impaired Tour | Scottish National Gallery Highlights

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Monster Chetwynd | Prolific Potato

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Talks & Lectures | Lessons of the Hour | Isaac Julien in conversation with Celeste-Marie Bernier

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Scotland's art | Styles and schools

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Preserving pasts | Imagining futures

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Thomas Joshua Cooper musical commission written by Andrew Wasylyk

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Talks & Lectures | Joan Eardley & Catterline panel discussion

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Ruined | Reinventing Scottish History

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Questions about art

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Scotland's art | In focus

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
What is...

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talk | Sorcha Dallas - Alasdair Gray Magnificent Citizen

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Queer Creatures

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Talks & Lectures | Ray Harryhausen and Aardman Animations

5 minute read

Audio and Video
Joan Eardley podcast

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Highlights tour | Scottish National Gallery

10 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Tam Dean Burn | Mask Made

20 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Dismal Thoughts | Thomas Carlyle on Race

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Katie Paterson, Future Library: A Century Unfolds, 2019

10 minute read

Audio and Video
The Clearing - A Memoir of Invisible Light: Author Talk With Samantha Clark

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Mindfulness and Art | British Sign Language (BSL) videos

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Film | Richard Demarco remembers Strategy: Get Arts fifty years on

10 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Visually Impaired Tour | Portrait Gallery Highlights

30 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Dr Elsie Maud Inglis | A Scottish Superhero

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Gallery social at home | for anyone affected by dementia

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
In the Mind’s Eye

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Richard Demarco | 90th birthday interview

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
Reflections: Art, Life and Love

5 minute read

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Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Artistic Partnerships

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | The Artist and Travel

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Depicting Scotland

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Representing Women

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Reflections: Art, Life and Love | Identity

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Podcast series | The Making of a Portrait

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
15,000 photographs of Scotland | Introducing the MacKinnon Collection

10 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Snapchats | Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe

10 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Audio and Video
Visually Impaired Tour | Sculpture Park

30 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Artists in Profile

15 minute read

Audio and Video
THE WORK OF ART

30 minute read

Audio and Video Artists
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