The National Galleries

Excavation work for the Playfair Project

 

The Natonal Gallery of Scotland - View of the newly re-covered ground beteween the two galleries at the Foot of the Mound - 8 April 2003

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

The Playfair Project

Restoration

The photograph above was taken on 8 April 2003 from The Mound.

It looks towards the Royal Scottish Academy, across the newly covered area, that was opened several months earlier to create an underground link between the Royal Scottish Academy and the National Gallery of Scotland.

 The National Galleries - Excavation work for the Playfair Project - 18 September 2002 ©

This construction work is part of the Playfair Project.

 Aristi's impression of the proosed link between the Royal Scottish Academy and the National Gallery of Scotland ©

 

 

 

 

The National Galleries

Story

1840s      Earthen Mound      2 Galleries      4 Galleries     Future      Artists

Photography

Thumbnails     Future     Exhibitions

Exhibitions

1850s    1876    1890    1995

 Art Manufactures 1856   1857   1861

Maps:

The Mound     6 small maps      1830      1840     1850     1860     1870     2001

 

 

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