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Edinburgh Art Galleries

Contemporary Art Gallery Designs in the Capital of Scotland, UK.

post updated 19 February 2025

Major Art Gallery Buildings in the Scottish capital city, alphabetical:

Edinburgh Art Gallery Buildings

Scottish Capital Art Space / Facility Properties – Popular Pages selection:

Dean Gallery, 73 Belford Road, northwest of the city centre
Date built: 1999
Design: Terry Farrell & Co

image © Tim Soar
Dean Gallery

Fruitmarket Gallery, 29 Market Street, Old Town – south side of the main railway station
Date built: 1991
Design: Richard Murphy Architects

photo : Richard Murphy Architects
Fruitmarket Gallery

Ingleby Gallery, 15 Calton Road, east part of the city centre
Date built: 2008
Design: Helen Lucas Architects

picture from the architect
Ingleby Gallery

National Gallery of Scotland, The Mound, between the Old Town and the New Town
Date built: 1858
Design: William Playfair

photo © Adrian Welch
National Gallery of Scotland

Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound
Dates built: 1826; 1836
Design: William Playfair

photo © Adrian Welch
RSA

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen St, New Town
Date built: 1895
Design: Robert Rowand Anderson

photo © Adrian Welch
Scottish Portrait Gallery

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Belford Road, near the Dean Village, north west of the city centre
Date built: 1828
Design: William Burn

image © Adrian Welch
Landform Charles Jencks at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art + SNGMA additional building

Weston Link, The Mound, between the Old Town and the New Town
Date built: 2004
Architects: John Miller & Partners

photo © Adrian Welch
Playfair Project Edinburgh – Weston Link
This was a difficult challenge for the design team, based in London: insert a large volume of new GFA right in the heart of the Scottish capital. Most of the building is concealed below the exist structure which sites between Princes Street Gardens West and East, on the Mound.