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Supporting Critical Conversations | Race and Racism

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Learning
Talks & lectures | Conversations with the Collection: Pat Douthwaite panel discussion

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Audio and Video Artists
Scottish identity

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Learning
British Sign Language (BSL) Tour | National

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Maths in motion

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Friday Night Mixer | Alt-Burns

5 minute read

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Talks & lectures | You Are Here: Keep the Heid

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Explore Deaf history | Walter Geikie

5 minute read

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Talks & lectures | Conversations with the Collection: Rosie O’Grady and Professor Patricia Allmer

30 minute read

Audio and Video Artists
Your Art World Audio Guide

5 minute read

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Audio Described Tour | Alberta Whittle: create dangerously

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Peatlands Study Day

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Talks & lectures | Introducing James’s People

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Talks & Lectures | Not Seeing Straight: LGBTQ+ film screening and live panel

30 minute read

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Talks & lectures | The Gentle Shepherd(ess): George Chalmers and the artistic language of Jacobitism

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Opening talk: Alberta Whittle | create dangerously

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Talks & Lectures | Edinburgh Art Festival Keynote Lecture: Jeanne van Heeswijk 

30 minute read

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Talks & lectures | Conversations with the Collection: Anna Barriball and Dr Stephanie Straine

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Talks & Lectures | Scottish Portraiture 1644–1714, David and John Scougall and Their Contemporaries

30 minute read

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Talks & Lectures | Queer Lives & Art: 40 Years of Lavender Menace

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Talks & Lectures | Carol Rhodes and Prunella Clough: Affinities

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Scotland in Europe | Curating Connections from 1939 to the Present

10 minute read

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Talks & Lectures | In Focus: In the Orchard by Sir James Guthrie

5 minute read

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

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Talks & Lectures | Counted: Gingers

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Talks & Lectures | Hepworth: Operating Theatre/Opera and Theatre

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Art chat | Conversations with the Collection

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Form and Colour: Friendship, Patronage and Collaboration between Barbara Hepworth, Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight

10 minute read

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Edinburgh Through Art | City Walking Tour

5 minute read

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Young People, Art, Uncertainty and the Curriculum

10 minute read

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Good art | Who decides?

5 minute read

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Does a portrait need a face?

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Audio Described Tour | Conversations with the Collection

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Celebrating the visually impaired programme

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Town Takeover | A Young Peoples’ Outreach Project

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Label Writing with Pupils across Scotland | Fife – West Lothian – Orkney.

5 minute read

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The beauty of maths

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Life Hacks Project | Youth led, visual art interventions in North Ayrshire

10 minute read

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

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Art Helps

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The MacKinnon Collection Digitisation | Cased Photographs

10 minute read

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

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Art in the open | At home

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Audio and Video Learning
Patricia NicDhòmhnaill | Beachdachadh air èirigh na mara

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Patricia NicDhòmhnaill | Beachdachadh air deigh ri leaghadh

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Blog Scottish Art
A’ sgrùdadh atharrachadh àrainneachd sa Mhonadh Ruadh le Patricia NicDhòmhnaill

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Henry & Sula Walton: A Bequest and Legacy

5 minute read

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Music at National Galleries of Scotland | Live Music Now

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Watson Gordon Lecture | Shadowing Diana: Paint and the Black Body

5 minute read

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Audio Described Tour | National

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
80 Years of Music at National Galleries of Scotland

5 minute read

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Frederick Douglass : Witness to Early Scottish Photography

10 minute read

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Make and Resist |​ Art activities inspired by artists of colour

5 minute read

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Scotland and chattel slavery through the lens of art

5 minute read

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

10 minute read

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

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Flashback | The game

5 minute read

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Ruined | Reinventing Scottish History

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
In Conversation with Ken Currie

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
A Year of The Drawing Room online

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

5 minute read

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Queer Creatures

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Talks & Lectures | Ray Harryhausen and Aardman Animations

5 minute read

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Outdoor learning

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Art Fuel: ideas to fuel your art-making at home

5 minute read

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Art in the open

5 minute read

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Highlights tour | Scottish National Gallery

10 minute read

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Art Spot

5 minute read

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GIF it a go!

10 minute read

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Remaking our histories | Scotland, Slavery and Empire

15 minute read

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Dismal Thoughts | Thomas Carlyle on Race

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Sensory Sculpture Stories

5 minute read

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Talk | Mary Paulson-Ellis - What makes a hero?

10 minute read

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Artist talk | Katie Paterson answers questions on Future Library 2014-2114

10 minute read

Artists Blog
Concerts at home | Live Music Now

5 minute read

Learning Scottish Art
Sensory trail

5 minute read

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Home entertainment for children

10 minute read

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Talk | Maggie Craig - Scotland’s Forgotten Heroes

10 minute read

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Mindfulness and Art | British Sign Language (BSL) videos

5 minute read

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Art Around You

5 minute read

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From our archive | La Dame Ovale

10 minute read

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Past event | Friday Night Mixer: Where are the Women?

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Audio Described Tour | Portrait

30 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Outreach team | Helping people access visual art

5 minute read

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Past event | Joan Eardley: A Private View

15 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Titan of Cinema | Student competition

15 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Past event | Bridget Riley: Writing the Body - live performance

15 minute read

Blog Artists
Gallery Social at home | for anyone affected by dementia

5 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
The MacKinnon Collection | Can you help identify these images?

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
You are Here | At home holiday activities

5 minute read

Learning
From our archive | Toyen

5 minute read

Blog Learning
In the Mind’s Eye

5 minute read

Audio and Video Blog
Walk, Talk, Make Sculpture Trail

5 minute read

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From our archive | Artist book of proverbs

5 minute read

Blog Learning
Richard Demarco | 90th birthday interview

5 minute read

Audio and Video Scottish Art
2020: Stories, Portraits, Visions

5 minute read

Learning
From our archive | Penny Slinger

5 minute read

Blog Learning
Talk | Liz Louis - The life and work of James Tassie

10 minute read

Blog Scottish Art
Activities for all at the National Galleries of Scotland

10 minute read

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Visually Impaired Tour | Sculpture Park

30 minute read

Audio and Video Learning
Beings | An exhibition created by young people from across Scotland

5 minute read

Blog Learning
Careers in the visual arts

5 minute read

Learning
The Art of the Future

5 minute read

Blog Learning
Scottish identity: Who decides who we are?

20 minute read

Learning
Fèin-aithne Albannach: Cò aige a tha an co-dhùnadh air cò th’ annainn?

20 minute read

Learning
National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools and Families

5 minute read

Learning
Vija Celmins Learning Resource

30 minute read

ARTIST ROOMS Learning
Roy Lichtenstein Learning Resource

30 minute read

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Joseph Beuys Learning Resource

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Ed Ruscha- Learning Resource

15 minute read

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Louise Bourgeois Learning Resource

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