National Gallery of Scotland - is a national art gallery, located in Edinburgh. Gallery building, which stands on an artificial hill Mound in the center, was designed by architect William Henry Playfair and opened to the public in 1859. Neoclassical style, which satisfied the building is in harmony with the purpose of construction. The gallery was built next to the Royal Scottish Academy of Sciences.

Collection of the National Gallery includes paintings by European masters from the Renaissance to the present. Also in the gallery are sculptures, and rich collection of graphics - more than 30,000 drawings from the early Renaissance to the end of the XIX century. The gallery has a research library, which collected 50,000 books, magazines and slides 1300g. before 1900 Here are stored archival materials related to the history of the gallery, its collections and exhibitions.

Meeting gallery includes paintings by such masters as Raphael, Botticelli, El Greco, Cezanne, Gauguin, Constable, Gainsborough and many others.