National Galleries Scotland: Modern One

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art sits inside a neoclassical building marked by a distinctive pair of monumental, sweeping staircases that flank the main entrance. Built in eighteen twenty-eight as an orphanage, it housed boys for over a century. Sir Terry Frost and other artists eventually filled those former dormitories with twentieth-century canvases. When the institution moved here in nineteen eighty-four, staff found the orphans' original painted lockers still embedded in the walls, serving as quiet reminders of the building's first inhabitants.