Edinburgh Art Galleries

The city of Edinburgh is home to an exuberant array of modern art incorporaring a variety of media. The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art houses more than 5,000 works of art dating the 19th Century to the present. The showpieces and highlights of its stunning collection includes paintings by France's great artists, Bonnard, Matisse and Vuillard, 20th Century oils by Russian artists, Larionov and Gonacharnova and a spectacular array of Experssionis art by Barlach, Nolde and Kirchner.

Edinburgh's City Art Centre is also one of the city's foremost venues to showcase an oustanding array of contemporary and fine art. Described as 'Scotland's leading Emporium of visual art', the Art Centre is home to six exhibition spaces that display Edinburgh's finest collections of Scottish Art in its host of temporary exhibitions that have included Star Trek memorabilia, tapestries, modern sculptures and sketches from Michelangelo.

Art is omnipresent in Scotland's historic capital and housed within Edinburgh's stunning mediaval buildings and castles, victorian galleries and the labyrinth of lanes and mews in Edinburgh's Old Town. Edinburgh is home to some of the finest collections of art in the world and contributes significantly to the arena of contemporary visual art.