National gallery of Scotland – national gallery of art, located in Edinburgh. The gallery building, which stands on an artificial hill a mound in the center of the city, was built by the architect William Henry Playfair and open to the public in 1859. The neoclassical style in which the building is in harmony with the purpose of the building. The gallery was built next to the Royal Scottish Academy of Sciences.

The National gallery's collection includes paintings by European masters from the Renaissance to the present. Also in the gallery presents sculptures and a rich collection of graphics - over 30 000 drawings from the early Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. The gallery also has a research library, which collected 50,000 books, magazines and slides 1300g. prior to 1900, Here are stored archival materials relating to the history of the gallery, its collections, exhibitions.

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