The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, holds the national collection of modern art. When opened in 1960, the collection was held in Inverleith House, at the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1980 it moved to its current home: a Neo Classical building in the west of Edinburgh, near the Water of Leith, built in 1825-1828 by William Burn for John Watson’s Hospital, a school now incorporated in George Watson’s College. The Sculpture garden to the front of the building contains work by Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread, Tony Cragg and Barbara Hepworth. In 2002 the front lawn was converted into the giant “Landform” sculpture by Charles Jencks, in collaboration with Terry Farrell. The sculpture is said to be inspired by chaos theory or Seurat’s La Grand Jatte. In 2004 the gallery won the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for the Landform. Edinburgh travel attractions.
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