Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Queen Street, Edinburgh 🇬🇧

Scotland's national collection of portraits, in a red sandstone neo-Gothic building on Queen Street built in 1889 as the world's first purpose-built portrait gallery. Sitters range from Mary Queen of Scots to today, plus a major photography and miniatures collection.

Explore 1 exhibition on now and 1 coming soon at Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Wendy McMurdo: The Digital Mirror

Until Oct 25

PhotographyVideo & Moving ImageContemporary Art

Two decades of McMurdo's pioneering digital photography on childhood and technology

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Coming Soon

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Scottish Portrait Awards 2026

Starting Nov 28

PaintingDrawing & Works on PaperPhotographyContemporary Art

Contemporary Scottish portrait artists compete for £17,500 in prizes

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