National Galleries of Scotland

Gaelic may be introduced to National Galleries »

The National Galleries of Scotland are holding public consultations over whether to provide signs for their visitors in both English and Gaelic. The plans to erect the bilingual signs in their five institutions across Edinburgh have been met with crit...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Greg Bianchi | Read more »

The Young Vermeer »

Wed 26 Jan 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Mirrors: Prison Portraits »

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Jennifer Owen | Read more »

Is Edinburgh the best city in Britain to live in? »

Despite the gloom created over the capital's gaffe-prone Tram construction and the seemingly never ending commentary on the cities economic woes, residents have been reminded off the cities world class attributes after Edinburgh's status as one of the ...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Diana and Actaeon »

From start to finish, the five month-long campaign to secure Titian’s Diana and Actaeon has been, like the painting itself, an extraordinary tale of drama and controversy. However, unlike the ill-fated Actaeon it features, on Monday the National ...

Sun 08 Feb 2009 by Rachael Cloughton | Read more »

Nice caff, with a gallery on the side »

There’s a famous Saatchi & Saatchi sequence of adverts which, during the ‘80s, sold London’s V&A museum as “an ace caff with quite a nice museum attached.” Fortunately, Edinburgh, too, has a few “quite nice&r...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Rebecca Penneck | Read more »