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Website. www.nationalgalleries.org. The National (formerly the Scottish National Gallery) is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.
History. The first Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) opened in August 1960 in Inverleith House, a Georgian building set in the middle of Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden. In 1984 the SNGMA moved to the former premises of the John Watson's Institution on Belford Road in the west of the city, a large neo-classical building which was ...
The National Galleries of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Gailearaidhean Nàiseanta na h-Alba, sometimes also known as National Galleries Scotland) is the executive non-departmental public body that controls the three national galleries of Scotland and two partner galleries, forming one of the National Collections of Scotland.
The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum (opened in 1866 as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art ...
The National Portrait Gallery building is a large edifice at the east end of Queen Street, built in red sandstone from Corsehill Quarry, outside Annan in Dumfriesshire.It was designed by Robert Rowand Anderson in the Gothic Revival style with a combination of Arts and Crafts and 13th-century Gothic influences, and is a Category A listed building.
Royal Scottish Academy Building: The Mound: Edinburgh: Scottish Flair Victorian Art Gallery [1] Inverness: Scottish Highlands: Scottish National Gallery: The Mound: Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Edinburgh Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery: Glasgow: St Mungo Museum of Religious Life ...
Artist Rooms. Photos taken at the Developing Digital Resources event at The Studio, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, on Tuesday 25 March 2014. Artist Rooms is a touring collection of international modern and contemporary art in the United Kingdom, established through the d'Offay donation in 2008. [1]
Scottish National Gallery [1], Edinburgh The Monarch of the Glen is an oil-on-canvas painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer . It was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster , in London .