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Some behind the scenes shots of the installation of our "Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh Street Photography An Unseen Archive" which opens Friday 24 November. Not be missed! Robert Blomfield Photography The Scotsman The Edinburgh Reporter The List What's On Edinburgh

You can see this and other extraordinary Victorian Begbie images in our current photography exhibition 'In Focus: Scottish Photography" In this photo we see the construction of Waverley Bridge and in the distance Princes Street.
The Building of a New Arch, Waverley Bridge Thomas Vernon Begbie
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Collective will open its doors at 10am on Saturday 24 November. There is a whole weekend of events to look forward to. http://ow.ly/yTEI30mDOs3

Every year the City Art Centre lends out artworks from its collection to other museums and galleries across the country for temporary exhibitions. This stunning painting ‘Rocks, St Mary’s, Scilly Isles’ by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, is currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for their exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An exhibition inspired by her writings’: https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/virginia woolf (Image courtesy of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust)

The hang of our amazing Robert Blomfield photographs is progressing and we can report they look fantastic in our gallery. You are going to love them!

We have a fresh new look here at the City Art Centre. Our front of house teams have a new uniform as well as their management team (here pictured in Royal Blue). They are looking forward to welcoming you to the gallery. :)

'Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh Street Photography - An Unseen Archive' opens on 24 November. Robert Blomfield, who celebrated his 80th birthday in February, moved from Leeds to Edinburgh to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1956, when he was 18. He pursued his passion for photography and, over the next decade, spent his free time capturing life on the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The amateur photographer used a pair of Nikon F SLRs, shot mainly in black and ...white and did his own developing and printing in a makeshift darkroom set up in his student halls.
Here is the very camera that captured all that magic.
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Edinburgh, 1966 An example of the fantastic atmospheric work of street photographer Robert Blomfield, to be exhibited at the City Art from 24 November.
#timeless #Edinburgh

Our curator is getting down to the nitty gritty of hanging our Robert Blomfield exhibition. It opens on 24 November.

We are very much looking forward to Dark Edinburgh's talk on Saturday 1 December.
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Beautiful atmospheric shots of a past era in Edinburgh.
'Robert Blomfield: Edinburgh Street Photography' will be on show from Saturday 24 November.
Robert Blomfield, Pram on Cobbles, Dean Village, Edinburgh, 1965. © the artist

We are finding that we can’t resist buying take-away from Mimi's Bakehouse for lunch here in the City Art Centre office... surely the prettiest take-away ever🌺🌸🌼🌻🌹🌷🌺 #avocadotoast

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." - George Eliot
Woods at Arniston, Midlothian William George Gillies (1898–1973) City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh
... ©Estate of William Gillies/Royal Scottish Academy. All Rights Reserved 2018/ Bridgeman Images
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We have some wonderful images of Victorian Edinburgh in our collection by a very early photographer, Thomas Vernon Begbie, and some are currently on show in our current exhibition, 'In Focus: Scottish Photography' (Sat 7 Jul 2018 to Sun 12 May 2019). These old photographs are an invaluable record of Victorian Edinburgh. Oh how we would loved a browse in Paul Wishart!
Shop Fronts, Leith Street Terrace.
Thomas Vernon Begbie, c.1857-1860. City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh.

At last, the lovely photographs by Robert Blomfield have arrived at the City Art Centre, and here is Robert's son Ed laying them out for their hang! This is going to be a spectacular show and one you don't want to miss. The exhibition opens on Saturday 24 November.

Today is RLS Day - the birthday of one of our most treasured writers.
No.8 Howard Place, Edinburgh Robert Hope (1869–1936) City Art Centre, Museums & Galleries Edinburgh
... This was the house where Robert Louis Stevenson was born on 13 November, 1850 and lived till 1853.
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Just received a fantastic review for the catalogue accompanying our current exhibition ‘Edwin G. Lucas: An Individual Eye’! https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/… /…/anyone-for-tennis/ The exhibition runs until February 2019, and the catalogue can be purchased from the City Art Centre shop!

Happy #RLSDay. On this day, 13 November 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh.
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson,
... An extraordinary image from the photograph album entitled 'The Cruise of the Casco' of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels around Hawaii and French Polynesia in 1888.
A group comprising Robert Louis Stevenson (flageolet), Professor Marion M. Scott (with flute), Fanny, Isobel (at piano), Lloyd (with violin), Captain Otis (with violin), Margaret Stevenson (back facing), and Henry Poor.
Taken at Waikiki, photographer unknown, but most likely Joe Strong, Stevenson's stepson-in-law, who had an interest in flash-light photography.
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very nice and helpful staff. Free Ceramic workshop great idea

excellent exhibition of works by Gillies and Maxwell, truly wonderful walking through, reading the scripts and enjoying the works.

Went back to see the Edinburgh Alphabet for a second time and was lucky enough to coincide with one of your tours on Saturday. Our guide (sorry, I didn't catch his name) brought a lot of enthusiasm and drew our attention to things we would otherwise have missed ourselves.

Thank you.

Very nice exhibit of the work of Edwin Lucas.

The Edinburgh art centre is contemporary and modern and stylish with welcoming staff. Lots of interesting artists work to see with a lovely open plan shop selling a wide range of contemporary items. I very much enjoyed my visit to the city art centre and hope to return sometime in the future.

Sublime exhibition of William Gillies and John Maxwell but why oh why isn't there an accompanying book or brochure?

Nice building. Loved the A-Z exhibition. Would visit again.

Magnifique.

Lovely space and I really enjoyed the paintings in the basement and exhibtion of stitching and quilts upstairs. Very friendly helpful staff too. Thank you very much.

It's fantastic fine arts center with lots seasonal, very interesting exhibitions!

I wil return again!!

I always enjoy a visit to the City Art Centre but the current exhibition is exceptional. Interesting, stimulating and fun! I got the impression that all those who collaborated to bring together such an eclectic mixture of things from the city's collection had really enjoyed the experience. I certainly did.

Great exhibition, Gillies watercolours are beautiful, Maxwells impasto oils superb! The paper trail on -1 exhibition is good too. Ernest Stephen Lumsden's work was a revelation.

Great experience at Edinburgh science festival, really well thought out age appropriate exhibits and workshops for the kids. The teaching staff and gallery staff were excellent. The cloakroom was full and the cafe very overcrowded but we loved the shop and accessibility from Waverley.

Excellent exhibit. Maybe a bit more "schooling " of the staff on the actual exhibits.

VERY noisy escalator.

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very nice and helpful staff. Free Ceramic workshop great idea

excellent exhibition of works by Gillies and Maxwell, truly wonderful walking through, reading the scripts and enjoying the works.

Went back to see the Edinburgh Alphabet for a second time and was lucky enough to coincide with one of your tours on Saturday. Our guide (sorry, I didn't catch his name) brought a lot of enthusiasm and drew our attention to things we would otherwise have missed ourselves.

Thank you.

Very nice exhibit of the work of Edwin Lucas.

The Edinburgh art centre is contemporary and modern and stylish with welcoming staff. Lots of interesting artists work to see with a lovely open plan shop selling a wide range of contemporary items. I very much enjoyed my visit to the city art centre and hope to return sometime in the future.

Sublime exhibition of William Gillies and John Maxwell but why oh why isn't there an accompanying book or brochure?

Nice building. Loved the A-Z exhibition. Would visit again.

Magnifique.

Lovely space and I really enjoyed the paintings in the basement and exhibtion of stitching and quilts upstairs. Very friendly helpful staff too. Thank you very much.

It's fantastic fine arts center with lots seasonal, very interesting exhibitions!

I wil return again!!

I always enjoy a visit to the City Art Centre but the current exhibition is exceptional. Interesting, stimulating and fun! I got the impression that all those who collaborated to bring together such an eclectic mixture of things from the city's collection had really enjoyed the experience. I certainly did.

Great exhibition, Gillies watercolours are beautiful, Maxwells impasto oils superb! The paper trail on -1 exhibition is good too. Ernest Stephen Lumsden's work was a revelation.

Great experience at Edinburgh science festival, really well thought out age appropriate exhibits and workshops for the kids. The teaching staff and gallery staff were excellent. The cloakroom was full and the cafe very overcrowded but we loved the shop and accessibility from Waverley.

Excellent exhibit. Maybe a bit more "schooling " of the staff on the actual exhibits.

VERY noisy escalator.

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very nice and helpful staff. Free Ceramic workshop great idea

excellent exhibition of works by Gillies and Maxwell, truly wonderful walking through, reading the scripts and enjoying the works.

Went back to see the Edinburgh Alphabet for a second time and was lucky enough to coincide with one of your tours on Saturday. Our guide (sorry, I didn't catch his name) brought a lot of enthusiasm and drew our attention to things we would otherwise have missed ourselves.

Thank you.

Very nice exhibit of the work of Edwin Lucas.

The Edinburgh art centre is contemporary and modern and stylish with welcoming staff. Lots of interesting artists work to see with a lovely open plan shop selling a wide range of contemporary items. I very much enjoyed my visit to the city art centre and hope to return sometime in the future.

Sublime exhibition of William Gillies and John Maxwell but why oh why isn't there an accompanying book or brochure?

Nice building. Loved the A-Z exhibition. Would visit again.

Magnifique.

Lovely space and I really enjoyed the paintings in the basement and exhibtion of stitching and quilts upstairs. Very friendly helpful staff too. Thank you very much.

It's fantastic fine arts center with lots seasonal, very interesting exhibitions!

I wil return again!!

I always enjoy a visit to the City Art Centre but the current exhibition is exceptional. Interesting, stimulating and fun! I got the impression that all those who collaborated to bring together such an eclectic mixture of things from the city's collection had really enjoyed the experience. I certainly did.

Great exhibition, Gillies watercolours are beautiful, Maxwells impasto oils superb! The paper trail on -1 exhibition is good too. Ernest Stephen Lumsden's work was a revelation.

Great experience at Edinburgh science festival, really well thought out age appropriate exhibits and workshops for the kids. The teaching staff and gallery staff were excellent. The cloakroom was full and the cafe very overcrowded but we loved the shop and accessibility from Waverley.

Excellent exhibit. Maybe a bit more "schooling " of the staff on the actual exhibits.

VERY noisy escalator.