Scottish National Portrait Gallery

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Explore the lives and achievements of great Scots, past and present, from Robbie Burns to Robbie Coltrane.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery provides a unique visual history of Scotland, told through the portraits of those who shaped it. It explores the lives of great Scots who have inspired and changed the world – royals and rebels, poets and philosophers, heroes and villains.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery was the first purpose-built portrait gallery in the world. The impressive building, overlooking Edinburgh’s historic New Town, has become a favourite destination for 200,000 locals and tourists every year, with its welcoming mix of special exhibitions, two floors of portraits from the national collection, and its fantastic shop and café.
This winter the Portrait Gallery is home to the BP Portrait Award 2007 from 14 December to 27 April and Joanna Kane, The Somnambulists: Photographic Portraits from Before Photography from 22 January to 6 April.

Admission: free entry apart from major exhibitions

Part of the National Galleries of Scotland.

Opening Hours

Open daily 1000 – 1700, Thursday late night opening until 1900

Contact

Enquiries

1 Queen Street
Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh
EH2 1JD
Scotland

Tel: +44 (131) 624 6200
Tel: +44 (131) 332 2266
E-Mail: info@nationalgalleries.org
WWW: http://www.nationalgalleries.org