Exhibitions in Edinburgh

Museum of Edinburgh · Free

Photography and film by five young people in kinship care, made over a 12-week multimedia programme — close observation of details we usually overlook, from perspectives often seen but rarely heard.

Fruitmarket · Free

Major show by London-based Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild across all three galleries: bronze, plaster, steel and concrete works staging bodily encounters with space.

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.

Edinburgh Printmakers · Free

Jamie Fitzpatrick probes Edinburgh's statues, monuments and civic decoration through bronze-pigment screenprints and sculptures that puncture monumental authority.

Edinburgh Printmakers · Free

Berlin-based Ukrainian duo Etchingroom1 (Kristina Yarosh and Anna Khodkova) present whimsical, socially sharp etchings, sculpture and mixed media about love, death and money.

The Writers' Museum · Free

Writing produced in creative workshops responding to objects from the city's collections, shown alongside the museum's literary displays.

Stills: Centre for Photography · Free

First major survey of documentary and portrait photographer Jillian Edelstein, spanning four decades of everyday lives and pivotal historical moments.

City Art Centre

The largest show to date of Sandra George (1957-2013): over 200 photographs of community, identity, activism, home and young lives, plus personal artefacts.

Talbot Rice Gallery · Free

Anne Hardy turns the Georgian Gallery into 'Feelings', an immersive installation of sculptural beings, weather-driven light from Marfa, Texas, and a new sound landscape.

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.

City Art Centre · Free

Celebrates the bequest that bought 1,000+ artworks for Edinburgh, with works by Fergusson, Redpath, Eardley, Paolozzi, Blackadder and Alison Watt. Part of RSA200.

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.

National Galleries Scotland: Portrait · Free

Over 50 photographs and digital animations (1995-2018) by Wendy McMurdo on childhood, learning and computers, including never-before-seen work. Her biggest show to date.

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.

Dovecot Studios · Free

Still lifes, botanical studies and prints by Elizabeth Blackadder alongside tapestries and rugs from her 50-year collaboration with Dovecot, incl. the new rug The Red Bouquet.

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.

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.