The Scottish National Gallery on The Mound in central Edinburgh was designed by William Henry Playfair. The article names no client. Prince Albert laid the foundation stone on August 30, 1850, and the gallery first opened to the public in 1859. The article gives no completion date.
The article calls the style Neoclassical, designed in the form of an ancient Greek temple using the Ionic order. It gives no materials or dimensions. The Royal Scottish Academy moved in 1912, and William Thomas Oldrieve remodeled the interior.
An upper floor was added in 1972, a basement gallery in 1978 and a Princes Street Gardens entrance in 2004. The gallery was renamed in 2012 and rebranded in 2023. It holds a Prints and Drawings collection of over 30,000 works and a research library of about 50,000 volumes, open by appointment. It had 1,583,231 visitors in 2019.
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