Edinburgh
Edinburgh
+ Exploring Edinburgh
Sights
* Ann Street
* Assembly Hall
* Assembly Rooms
* Blackford Hill
* Braid Hills
* Calton Hill
* Camera Obscura
* Charlotte Square
* City Art Centre
* The Colonies
* Corstorphine
* Cowgate
* Craigmillar Castle
* Cramond
* Dean Village
* Duddingston
* Edinburgh Castle Museums
* Edinburgh Exchange
* Edinburgh's Festival Centre - The Hub
* Edinburgh Zoo
* George Street
* The Georgian House
* Gladstone's Land
* The Grassmarket
* Greyfriars Kirk
* Hanover Street
* The Heart of Midlothian
* Holyrood Abbey
* Holyrood Park
* Huntly House Museum
* John Knox's House
* Lady Stair's House, The Writers' Museum
* The Lawnmarket
* Leith
* The Meadows
* Mercat Cross
* Morningside
* The Mound
* Murrayfield
* Museum of Childhood
* Parliament House
* Parliament Square
* The People's Story museum
* Princes Street
* Princes Street Gardens
* Queen Street
* Register House
* Royal High School
* Royal Scottish Academy
* Royal scottish Observatory
* The Royal Yacht Britannia
* St Andrew Square
* St Giles Cathedral
* St Mary's episcopal Cathedral
* Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre
* The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery
* Scottish National Portrait Gallery
* The Scottish Parliament
* Stockbridge
* Swanston
* Talbot Rice Art Gallery
* The Tron Kirk
* The University of Edinburgh
* Victoria Street
* The Water of Leith
* Waterloo Place
* Waverley Market (princes mall)
Vicinity
+ Vicinity
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Highly Recommended )
An afternoon in Edinburgh's superbly designed and exciting modern art galleries makes a fascinating and stimulating contrast to medieval and Georgian Edinburgh. In 1999 Edinburgh's permanent exhibition space for modern art doubled with the opening of the Dean Gallery. The two galleries lie on either side of Belford Road, the Gallery of Modern Art housed in a 19th-century neo-classical ex-school, the Dean in a slightly earlier ex-hospital. The Gallery of Modern Art has a fine collection of international and Scottish 20th-century art, with examples of modern art movements such as Expressionism, Fauvism, and Surrealism. Look out for Francis Bacon and Jackson Pollock. Across the road, the Dean contains Edinburgh's renowned Dada and Surrealist collection, as well as many works by Eduardo Paolozzi, the Scottish sculptor whose work you may also have seen in the Museum of Scotland.
Address: Belford Road
Phone: 0131 624 6200
Open: Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun 2-5 (till 6pm during Festival).
Restaurant: Café in Gallery of Modern Art (Inexpensive-Moderately priced)
Bus: 13
Accessible: Very good
Admission: Free
Practical: Charges for special exhibitions
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