Our Research Facilities comprise a number of study spaces and storage facilities across the city, where visitors are able to view collections not on display. This includes works of art, as well as ...

As a charity we rely on generous support from people like you to help us in our mission to make art work for everyone. By supporting the National Galleries of Scotland, you can help us to deliver ...

Discover the inspiration and power of the visual arts, through historic, modern and contemporary art. Gallery visits align closely with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence to nurture creativity, ...

Welcome! On this page you will find information about events and resources that have been created specifically with people with a visual impairment in mind. Join us for free, relaxed and sociable art ...

Achilles refuses the comfort of his Greek comrades as he grieves over the dead body of his close friend and possible lover, Patroclus, who was killed by the Trojans. The enormous size of Hamilton's ...

This is one of Gainsborough's finest full-length portraits. The costume and accessories evoke the era of King Charles I and the opulent court portraits of Sir Anthony van Dyck. The sitter was born the ...

Church's large canvas captures magnificently the drama of Niagara Falls, one of his country's most famous landmarks. This painting, based on a drawing Church made at Niagara in July 1856 and on a ...

Welcome! On this page you will find information about sensory-friendly events and resources created for and with autistic visitors, visitors with learning disabilities and those with additional ...

Welcome! On this page you will find information about our Deaf-led tours in British Sign Language (BSL) as well as resources created for visitors with BSL as a first or preferred language. We run a ...

In 2017 the National Galleries of Scotland was able to acquire The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer for the nation. The painting had been in private and corporate collections since 1851. This ...

Sir John Lavery Edward Arthur Walton, 1860 - 1922. Artist. With his fiancée Helen Law, 1859 – 1945 (Hokusai and the Butterfly) Dated 1889 At this date Glasgow was second city of the Empire, home to a ...

This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works. The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a ...