Exhibitions in Edinburgh

April 2026

April 2026 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 4 more were on view across the city.

Tai Shani's blue sculpture The Spell in the orchard at Jupiter Artland

Silk dress made from Second World War escape and evade maps

Sekai Machache, Light Divine Sky II (2021), shown in Earth Matters

James Hutton Tercentenary event artwork

Was on view in April

Tai Shani: The Spell or The Dreamto 30 Sept
Jupiter Artland
Turner Prize winner Tai Shani's luminous blue sleeping figure in the orchard, paired with The Dream, a 24/7 radio broadcast on dreaming as radical imagination.
Maps: Memories from the Second World Warto 4 Oct
National War Museum · Free
How WWII military maps became personal keepsakes: silk escape-and-evade maps, aerial photography, war diaries and a dress made from escape maps. Final weeks.
Earth Mattersto 1 Nov
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh · Free
Seeing soil through art: 30+ artists mark 300 years since geologist James Hutton's birth with paintings, sculpture, ceramics and photography on the living ground beneath our feet.
James Hutton Tercentenaryto 31 Dec
Dynamic Earth
A year of activities marking 300 years since the birth of James Hutton, father of modern geology and of "Deep Time", including the Scotland's Time Lords gallery.

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