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  • Must see
    Exhibition Closing Soon

    Your Art World

    National

    Until Sun 14 Apr 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

    Admission free

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk

    Moses, Two Dogs, and a Halberdier | Paintings in and out of Context

    National

    Wed 20 Mar 2024

    6 - 8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

  • Drop-in event

    Family Fridays

    National

    Every Fri during term time
    10am - 12noon (ages 0–3) & 2 - 4pm (ages 4+)

    Free

    Free, drop-in

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk

    John Michael Wright | Master of Invention and Reinvention

    National

    Mon 25 Mar 2024

    6 - 8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

  • Lecture or talk

    Before and After Coal | Opening Talk (in person)

    National

    Tue 26 Mar 2024

    12:45 - 1:45pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Music concert SOLD OUT

    Live Music Now | Calum & Niamh

    National

    Thu 4 Apr 2024

    6 - 6:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Lecture or talk

    Paolozzi as Designer panel discussion (in person)

    National

    Tue 9 Apr 2024

    12:45 - 1:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Tour SOLD OUT

    Scottish Art in Focus | Thematic Tours of the Scottish Collection

    National

    Every Second Saturday of the month
    3 - 3.30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk

    Alexander Herman on the Parthenon Marbles

    National

    Tuesday 16 April, 6-8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

  • Lecture or talk SOLD OUT

    Woohoo! Let’s celebrate the new Scottish galleries at the National (in person)

    National

    Tue 23 Apr 2024

    12:45 - 1:30pm

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk

    Archaeology, Art, Religion and Diamonds

    National

    Wed 24 Apr 2024

    6 - 8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Lecture or talk

    Rogues and Scholars | The Rise of the London Art Market

    National

    Tue 30 Apr 2024

    6 - 8pm

    £14, Friends and guests

    Booking essential

  • Our Friends
    Special event

    Friends Preview | National Treasures: Vermeer in Edinburgh

    National

    Thu 9 May 2024

    6 - 8pm

    Free

    +1 other sessions

    Booking essential

  • Exhibition Coming Soon

    National Treasures | Vermeer in Edinburgh

    National

    Fri 10 May 2024 - Sun 8 Sep 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

  • 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

  • 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

  • Course or workshop SOLD OUT

    Gallery Social (dementia-friendly) | Old Edinburgh

    National

    Fri 24 May 2024

    10:30am - 12 noon

    Free

    Booking essential

  • Display Just Opened

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

    National

    Until Sun 26 May 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

  • Display Just Opened

    Craft & Cubism | William McCance and Agnes Miller Parker

    National

    Until Sun 26 May 2024

    Open daily, 10am–5pm

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About the National Galleries of Scotland

The National Galleries of Scotland cares for, develops, researches and displays the national collection of Scottish and international art and aims to engage, inform and inspire the broadest possible public.