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  • Exhibition Coming Soon

    National Treasures | Vermeer in Edinburgh

    National

    Fri 10 May 2024 - Sun 8 Sep 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

  • Tour

    Scottish Art in Focus | Thematic Tours of the Scottish Collection

    National

    Second Saturday of the month
    3 - 3:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Special event

    Sensory-Friendly Sundays for families (autism and learning disability friendly)

    Portrait

    Sun 12 May 2024

    10:30 - 11:30am

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk SOLD OUT

    Vermeer | Biblical Stories to Domestic Scenes

    National

    Tue 14 May 2024

    6 - 8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

  • Course or workshop

    Visually Impaired Programme Live (in gallery) | Vermeer in Edinburgh

    National

    Wed 15 May 2024

    10:15am - 3:45pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Music concert

    Live Music Now | Matthew Shiel

    National

    Wed 15 May 2024

    6 - 6:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Special event SOLD OUT

    Visit to Alnwick Castle and Gardens

    Alnwick Castle & Garden

    Tue 21 May 2024

    8:45am - 6:45pm

    £95, Friends and guests

    SOLD OUT

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk SOLD OUT

    The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874 | a perspective after 150 years

    National

    Wed 22 May 2024

    6 - 8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Special event

    Friends Preview | Women in Revolt

    Modern Two

    Thu 23 May 2024

    5:30 - 8:30pm

    Free, booking essential

    +7 other sessions

    Booking essential

  • Course or workshop SOLD OUT

    Gallery Social (dementia-friendly) | Old Edinburgh

    National

    Fri 24 May 2024

    10:30am - 12 noon

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Lecture or talk

    Opening talk | Women in Revolt! (in person)

    National

    Fri 24 May 2024

    3 - 4pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Exhibition Coming Soon

    Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–1990

    Modern Two

    Sat 25 May 2024 - Sun 26 Jan 2025

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

    £4 - £14

  • Course or workshop

    Your Art World | Portrait

    Portrait

    Sat 25 May 2024

    11am - 12:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Display

    Between Weathers | Scottish Artists in the Landscape (1760–1945)

    National

    Until Sun 26 May 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

  • Display

    Craft & Cubism | William McCance and Agnes Miller Parker

    National

    Until Sun 26 May 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

  • Display

    Joseph Noel Paton | Drawing Shakespeare

    National

    Until Sun 26 May 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

  • Lecture or talk

    In Focus | A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal by Vermeer (in person)

    National

    Tue 28 May 2024

    12:45 - 1:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Lecture or talk

    In Focus | A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal by Vermeer (online)

    Online via YouTube

    Tue 28 May 2024

    12:45 - 1:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Course or workshop

    Relaxed afternoons for adults (autism and learning disability friendly)

    Portrait

    Tue 28 May 2024

    2 - 3pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk

    Robin Gillanders | Ian Hamilton Finlay and Collaborations

    National

    Tue 28 May 2024

    6 - 8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

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