Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is an art museum on Queen Street, Edinburgh , Scotland . It shows a national collection of portraits, mostly but not exclusively, of Scottish statesmen.
It was founded in 1889 and since then it has been housed in a neo-Gothic red sandstone building built between 1885 and 1890 and designed by Robert Rowand Anderson .
The building was donated by John Ritchie Findlay , owner of The Scotsman newspaper . After the gallery had to be closed in April 2009 for a complete building renovation, it was reopened on December 1, 2011.
The Scottish National Photography Collection is also located there.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 57 ′ 19.8 " N , 3 ° 11 ′ 37.4" W.