March 2027
March at a glance: 2 exhibitions opening, 1 closing, and 7 more on view across the city.

Talbot Rice Gallery · Free
First UK show by Fiona Lutjenhuis splits the Georgian Gallery into a descent into Hell below and a watery Atlantis above, world-building on sin, ecology and belief.

Talbot Rice Gallery · Free
The gallery's interdisciplinary student exhibition, showcasing emerging undergraduate and postgraduate creative practice from Edinburgh College of Art and beyond.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.