Exhibitions in Edinburgh

Museum of Edinburgh · Free

Marking 30 years since UNESCO listed Edinburgh's Old and New Towns, with artworks by a Primary 4 class from Granton Primary School made with artist Stephanie Walker after visiting the museum and the Old Town.

Dovecot Studios

Costumes, accessories and sketches from London costume house Cosprop, founded by John Bright in 1965, from Pride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey and A Room with a View.

Talbot Rice Gallery · Free

International group show on living through the breakdown of systems, as artists confront generative AI, neo-colonialism, war and climate change, insisting no condition is permanent.

City Art Centre

Retrospective of Edinburgh abstract artist Kenneth Dingwall's 60-year career: around 70 drawings, paintings, prints and constructions, some never shown before.

Dovecot Studios · Free

A full-size print of the Bayeux Tapestry unrolled across Dovecot's Balcony Gallery, the first time its full scale is shown in Scotland, with insight from the British Museum.

City Art Centre

Major solo show of Aberdeen-based printmaker Ade Adesina: monumental woodcuts, etchings and linocuts on climate change and colonial histories, plus a new Edinburgh commission.

National Galleries Scotland: Portrait

The Scottish Portrait Awards come to the Portrait for the first time: fine art, photography and Scotland Now! phone portraits by artists born, living or studying in Scotland.

National Museum of Scotland

Rome's most northerly frontier brought to life, centred on finds from the Inveresk fort, including two altars from the world's most northerly Mithraeum shown for the first time.

National Museum of Scotland · Free

Over 200 objects trace conflict in prehistoric Scotland from the Neolithic to Rome, including six Bronze Age shields and the richest Iron Age warrior burial yet found.

City Art Centre · Free

Recent gifts and bequests to the city's Scottish art collection: paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs by Barns-Graham, Bellany, Crowe, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jessie M. King and more.

National War Museum · Free

The making of the Scottish National War Memorial, 1917-1927, through architectural drawings, artworks and archives, including cast iron angels by Alice Meredith Williams.