National Galleries of Scotland

This exhibition explores some of the issues facing Scotland right now via stories, portraits and ideas about the future submitted by people across the nation.

This dramatic display considers the Jacobites - those loyal to the deposed Stuart dynasty at home and abroad.

Subtitled Nation, Migration, Globalisation 1760-1860 this display explores the lives and careers of the Scots behind this period of dramatic change.

This display explores the Scottish experience of Italy in the eighteenth-century, the period when fascination with the country reached its height.

At the beginning of the sixteenth century Scotland was a Catholic state governed by the Stewart dynasty. By the close of the seventeenth century the monarchy, church and parliament had all changed drastically.

This exhibition re-examines some major Scottish figures, from Thomas Carlyle to Andrew Carnegie, raises questions about the nature of hero-worship and the values that were upheld by our Victorian forebears. Women artists, scientists, writers and suffragists provide a strong female presence.

At the centre of this display is the intriguing and gory painting of the Execution of Charles I by an unknown Dutch artist.

Focussing on the two 17th-century artists Adrian Vanson and Adam de Colone, this small exhibition presents the findings of a collaborative research project.