Scottish National Gallery

The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.
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  • Opening hours:
    10:00 AM—5:00 PM
    Thursday: 10:00 AM—7:00 PM
  • Type: Art gallery
  • Description: part of National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh
  • Also known as: “Edinburgh National Gallery of Scotland”, “Edinburgh, The Mound, National Gallery Of Scotland”, “National”, “National Galleries of Scotland”, “National Galleries of Scotland: National”, “National Galleries Scotland: National”, “National Gallery of Scotland”, and “National Gallery on the Mound”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and The Mound.

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is a historic castle in , Scotland. It stands on , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. is situated 1,300 feet southwest of Scottish National Gallery.

Square
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is an artificial slope and road in central , Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's and . It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch, which was drained in 1765 and forms today's .

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The is a Victorian Gothic to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the in Havana. is situated 720 feet northeast of Scottish National Gallery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

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is the original settlement of . At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".

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of is 250 years old, in contrast to the settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.

Neighborhood
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is the marketing name given to the mixed use redevelopment of the former site, in , . It was master-planned by architect Foster + Partners and takes its name from the fact it is a quarter mile from Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile and measures a quarter mile from corner to corner.

Scottish National Gallery

Latitude
55.95088° or 55° 57′ 3″ north
Longitude
-3.19562° or 3° 11′ 44″ west
Operator
National Galleries Scotland
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
way 5182746
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Wiki­data ID
Q942713
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Scottish National Gallery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المعرض الوطني الأسكتلندي”
  • Arabic: “المعرض الوطني الإسكتلندي”
  • Arabic: “المعرض الوطني الاسكتلندي”
  • Armenian: “Շոտլանդիայի ազգային պատկերասրահ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şotlandiya Milli Qalereyası”
  • Bashkir: “Шотландия милли галереяһы”
  • Basque: “Eskoziako Galeria Nazionala”
  • Basque: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Basque: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Catalan: “Galeria Nacional d’Escòcia”
  • Catalan: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Chinese: “蘇格蘭國家畫廊”
  • Czech: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Czech: “Skotská národní galerie”
  • Danish: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Danish: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Dutch: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Dutch: “Nationale Gallery van Schotland”
  • Dutch: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المعرض الوطنى الاسكتلندى”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia Galerio de Skotlando”
  • Esperanto: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Esperanto: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Esperanto: “Skota Nacia Galerio”
  • Finnish: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • French: “Galerie nationale d’Écosse”
  • French: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • French: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Galician: “Galería Nacional de Escocia”
  • Georgian: “შოტლანდიური ეროვნული გალერეა”
  • German: “National Galleries of Scotland”
  • German: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • German: “Schottische Nationalgalerie”
  • German: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Greek: “Εθνική Πινακοθήκη της Σκωτίας”
  • Hebrew: “הגלריה הלאומית של סקוטלנד”
  • Indonesian: “Galeri Nasional Skotlandia”
  • Italian: “National Gallery di Edimburgo”
  • Italian: “National Gallery of Scotland di Edimburgo”
  • Italian: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Italian: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Japanese: “スコットランド国立美術館”
  • Japanese: “国立スコットランド美術館”
  • Korean: “스코틀랜드 국립 갤러리”
  • Korean: “스코틀랜드 국립미술관”
  • Lithuanian: “Nacionalinė Škotijos galerija”
  • Macedonian: “Шкотска национална галерија”
  • Mazanderani: “اسکاتلند ملی نگارخنه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nasjonalgalleriet i Skottland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Skottlands nasjonalgalleri”
  • Norwegian: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Persian: “نگارخانه ملی اسکاتلند”
  • Polish: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Polish: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Portuguese: “Galeria de Edimburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Galeria Nacional da Escócia”
  • Portuguese: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Portuguese: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Romanian: “Galeria Națională a Scoției”
  • Russian: “Национальная галерея Шотландии”
  • Serbian: “Шкотска национална галерија”
  • Slovenian: “Škotska narodna galerija”
  • Spanish: “Galeria Nacional de Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Galería Nacional de Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Galeria nacional de Escocia”
  • Spanish: “Galería nacional de Escocia”
  • Spanish: “Galería Nacional de Escocia”
  • Spanish: “Galería_Nacional_de_Escocia”
  • Spanish: “National Gallery de Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “National Gallery de Escocia”
  • Spanish: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Spanish: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Swedish: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Swedish: “Scottish National Gallery”
  • Thai: “National Gallery of Scotland”
  • Thai: “หอศิลป์แห่งชาติแห่งสกอตแลนด์”
  • Turkish: “National Gallery”
  • Ukrainian: “Національна галерея Шотландії”
  • Welsh: “Oriel Genedlaethol yr Alban”

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