The Scottish National Gallery is one of Britain's leading art galleries. It is located in the very center of Edinburgh.

It was designed by William Henry Playfair and built in a neoclassical style.

The museum has grown richer over time, thanks to permanent donations and loans. For example, in 1946 he received on permanent loan from the Dukes of Sutherland, the works of the famous Bridgewater collection (three works by Raphael, five by Titian, a self-portrait by Rembrandt, and eight paintings by Poussin).

Years later, in 1961, the art gallery received the Maitland collection of French impressionists as a gift.

Here are preserved works by great masters of modern art such as Botticelli, Raphael, Tiziano, El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, van Dyck, Tiepolo, Landseer, Gainsborough, Constable, Turner and Angelica Kauffmann. There is also a good collection of Scottish painters including Ramsay, Raeburn and Wilkie. The gallery also owns works by Vitale da Bologna, Bernardo Daddi, Andrea del Sarto, Tintoretto, Veronese, Ludovico Carracci, Domenichino Claude Lorrain, Pittoni, Rubens, Van Dyck, Steen, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, John Crome, Chardin, Watteau, Boucher, Greuze, Zurbaran, Adam Elsheimer, Lorenzo Lotto, Jacopo Bassano, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Gauguin.