What's on in Edinburgh

National Galleries Scotland: PortraitNew Town

Heroes and Heroines: Idealism and Achievement in the Victorian Age

Now showingPermanent collectionFree

Victorian Scots from Thomas Carlyle to Andrew Carnegie, with women artists, scientists and suffragists, questioning hero-worship and the values of the age Queen Victoria presided over.

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On nowAll of November 2026

Also at National Galleries Scotland: Portrait

On now nearby

Ade Adesina, Borders, 2025: two-panel print of a cloudy sky over woodland with birds, a deer and a wheelbarrow

Ade Adesina: Bard

City Art Centre

Jessie M. King, Fraunchyse (detail), c.1907, illustration of two women

Gifted: New Acquisitions at the City Art Centre

City Art Centre

Elizabeth Blackadder: A Life in Colour at Dovecot Studios

Elizabeth Blackadder: A Life in Colour

Dovecot Studios

All exhibitions in Edinburgh this month Coming up in December

Nearby

Exterior of Fruitmarket gallery on Market Street, Edinburgh

Fruitmarket

ArtFree6 min walk
The neoclassical Playfair building of National Galleries Scotland: National on the Mound, Edinburgh

National Galleries Scotland: National

ArchitectureFree6 min walk
Exterior of the City Art Centre on Market Street, Edinburgh, with exhibition banners

City Art Centre

ArtFree7 min walk
Stills gallery and tenement at 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

Stills: Centre for Photography

ArtFree7 min walk

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