Museum · New Town
Scottish National Portrait Gallery (the Portrait)
1 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD
The world's first purpose-built portrait gallery, a red sandstone neo-Gothic building on Queen Street in the New Town. It tells Scotland's story through portraits from the Stuarts to today, with a richly painted Great Hall and a photography collection. Entry is free.
Permanent exhibitions
- Great Hall with its painted processional frieze of Scottish history
- Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots and the Stuarts
- The Jacobite cause in visual culture
- Heroes and heroines of the Victorian age
- Modern and contemporary Scottish portraits
- Photography collection
