The Studio Gallery

The Studio Gallery, is the newest gallery in the oldest building in Scotland's newest city, Inverness. The Gallery shows work by the very best of contemporary Scottish painters and applied artists in four rooms.

Two gallery rooms on the ground floor have jewellery, fine silver and ceramic applied art is on show complimented by a selection of art cards, books, wood and stone carvings. Stairs lead up to two further galleries on the first floor with ever changing exhibitions of contemporary Scottish paintings, sculpture, glass and ceramics.

Abertarff House is a stunning 16th century, three storey, townhouse in the heart of the new city, half way down Church Street. The building, the oldest house in Inverness, was built in 1593. The architects are unknown, and little of the early history of the house was recorded until the mid 1700's when it became the town house of Colonel Archibald Fraser of Beaufort and Abertarff, the son of Lord Lovat of the 'forty-five'. It remained Fraser property until the mid C19th. In 1963 Abertarff House was given to The National Trust for Scotland who completed its' restoration in 1966.