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The Castle Gallery on Castle Street, a white building with a dark red shopfront and window boxes of flowers above.
Inverness

Castle Gallery

An independent contemporary art gallery on Castle Street in Inverness since 2001, showing original work by Highland and British artists over two floors.

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Welcome

On Castle Street, just below the castle, a dark red shopfront with flowers in the windows above is the Castle Gallery.

It has shown contemporary art since 2001, and it is independent, locally owned and award-winning.

The work fills two floors of an eighteenth-century building: original paintings, prints, glass, ceramics and sculpture, by artists who live and work in the Highlands and by others from across Britain. Landscapes of the sea and the hills sit beside abstract and figurative work, and there are exhibitions through the year.

It is free to wander in and look. If something catches your eye, the gallery can ship it home, anywhere in the world. It opens Tuesday to Saturday.

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Before you go

Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, according to the gallery.

Exhibitions change through the year.

Where
43 Castle Street, Inverness, IV2 3DU.
Open
Tue to Sat, 10am to 5pm.
Since
2001.

Opening hours

Their website
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
11am–6pm
Wednesday
11am–6pm
Thursday
11am–6pm
Friday
11am–6pm
Saturday
11am–6pm
Sunday
Closed

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Where it is

On Castle Street, just below Inverness Castle, IV2 3DU.

Close byInverness.
  1. River Ness WalkRiver Ness WalkUnder a mile 1 min by road
  2. Inverness Museum and Art GalleryInverness Museum and Art GalleryThe museum's art galleries.Under a mile 1 min by road
  3. XOKO BakehouseXOKO BakehouseCinnamon rolls on Bridge Street.Under a mile 1 min by road
  4. A tray of sponge cakes dusted with icing sugar and filled with jam and cream.Harry GowUnder a mile as the crow flies
  5. Inverness CastleInverness CastleThe castle just above.Under a mile 1 min by road
  6. Coyote BurgerCoyote BurgerUnder a mile 1 min by road
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