It's wonderful that the gallery is back up and running. Pre-booking has to be made and only some galleries are open. Nevertheless, the iconic Scottish pictures - the Monarch of the Glen and the Reverend Walker are still proudly on view alongside the Rembrandt self portrait. Drink it all in in the peace and quiet of restricted viewing and you will do wonders for your wellbeing. Visitors please leave a donation to help the Gallery in this difficult time - it's worth it.

Visited the gallery during October. Very well organised entry and management of numbers. Be aware that currently (Oct 2020) you have to book online a day in advance and you get an hour slot. We really enjoyed our visit here. Peaceful and relaxing walk around the various rooms. Excellent range of traditional paintings on display from a wide range of artists. There are places to sit inside and plenty of space to stand back and look. Below the gallery is an excellent shop selling a range of affordable and more expensive gifts and books. There is also a cafe/restaurant that was very popular and served a great range of tasty treats, coffee or larger meals. Easy to find, mid-way down Princes’ Street. Would definitely visit again.

Lovely collection albeit quite small. We were lucky to be here in January as the museum has an excellent collection of Turner watercolours that can only go on public display in the month of January. The museum is undergoing an expansion so keep it on your list for 2021. We went to the building just across from the main budding and stumbled upon a marvellous exhibition from the Royal Scottish Society of painters in watercolour. Really wonderful works - and they are for sale.

This is a splendid gallery off Princess Street. During January there is a Turner exhibition of very fine watercolours. These works are wonderful and part of a rivals collection. These paintings are only ever shown in the month of January. Do visit, they are beautiful.

If you like art then this gallery is obviously a must. However, if you are unsure about art, I would still definitely recommend this gallery. It is bang in the centre of the city so you will almost certainly walk past it at some point and it is free so you have nothing to lose. It is small, so if you hate it, you can walk around it in 5 minutes, so no harm done. If you love it you will spend at least a wonderful hour here. I really enjoyed it, especially "monarch of the glen" which is an iconic scottish scene of a majestic deer in the highlands.

We had a lovely morning strolling round the gallery with some fantastic pieces on display. It was an ideal way to pass time ahead of catching our train and the use of lockers was a bonus. Only strange thing was their decision to charge and extra 50p for decaffeinated coffee, normally its the same prices in other cafes. Not sure why us non caffeine drinkers are penalised but the cakes were fantastic.

An excellent gallery with a wide variety of Scottish art. The Turner exhibition on at present is a delight. We had lunch in the cafe/ restaurant and the food was delicious, if a little pricey. Our waitress, Lisa was a delight- helpful and friendly. Thoroughly recommend the whole experience.

The outside of this gallery and the surroundings are beautiful. That is until you realise that the gallery themselves just requested that 52 trees be cut down in the gardens beside it to give better views and make way for their expansion. These trees had been there for decades, it now looks like a wasteland, as usual money gets you what you want. If you value the area around this gallery avoid supporting this gallery in any way, it obviously thinks nature should give way and has no place in modern society. Good luck with your multi million pound extension. Oh and they say they will replace these trees with 22 saplings, I’ll let you do the maths.

Our visit was lovely. Staff was very friendly and they have a very nice collection or art. I give 4 stars not 5 because we wished we could have visited the full collection including The Monet pairings they have. The rooms were closed due to Covid19 regulations but still one household at a time would have been safe and they already kept visitor numbers very low at one time (that was good). So I feel it would have been Ok to. Visit maybe just controlling entrance to the smaller rooms (we visited edinburg castle which had smaller spaces with just 1 or 2 households at the one time). I anyway recommend visiting to anyone in Edinburgh!!

Family of four with 11 and 13 year old boys. We had paid to see the Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema exhibition at Modern Two in the morning and we had come into the city centre for a wonder around. Popped into the gallery because my older son wanted to see Monarch of the Glen and wow - I can't believe I've never been here before. It is a spectacular gallery and it's all FREE! Had a lovely conversation with a staff member (lady wearing glasses, English accent) and she gave me some interesting information about some of the paintings. Loved it.