Edinburgh's Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is home to the country's national collection of modern art. Inaugurated in 1960, twenty years later in 1980 it moved to where it is still today: in the large neoclassical building adjacent to the Water of Leith park. The building was built between 1825 and 1828 by the Scottish architect William Burn and is now known as Modern One, while a second building, built in 1883, is the Modern Two where a large collection of Dada and Surrealist art is kept. .

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is also known for the 'Garden of Statues' opposite the building where works by Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread, Tony Cragg and Barbara Hepworth are exhibited. The front lawn was also converted into a "giant sculpture" titled Landform by architect Charles Jencks which later won the Gulbenkian Prize.

The Gallery has works by Braque, Mondrina, Matisse, Picasso, Ben Nicholson, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, the Scottish colorists, Peter Howson, Levannah Harris, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, the Boyle Family and Douglas Gordon.