Exhibitions in Edinburgh

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 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.

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.

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.

Dynamic Earth

Seasonal live planetarium show: in-house astronomers replay the recent eclipse, tour the autumn constellations and fly to the heart of the Milky Way.

Dynamic Earth

October family trail through the galleries uncovering the science behind dragons, kelpies and werewolves, ending with colour-changing potion-making in the café.

National Galleries Scotland: National

Nearly 80 photographic portraits spanning 30 years by American artist Catherine Opie, her first solo show in Scotland, touring from London's NPG. At the Royal Scottish Academy.

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.

Surgeons' Hall Museums

A 70-minute guided walk through the Old Town — chloroform tea parties, pioneering women, grave robbing and Burke and Hare — with museum entry included. Weekends at 14:00 to 29 November 2026; age 10+.

The Writers' Museum · Free

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

Collective · Free

New film, sculpture and site-specific printmaking by early-career Scotland-based artists Huss Al-Chokhdar, Hetal Chudasama, Gianni Esporas and Abi Lewis.

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.

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.

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.