The Fruitmarket Gallery at 45 Market Street in Edinburgh brings artists and audiences together through exhibitions, commissions, interpretation, education and publishing. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow.
It hosts exhibitions showing new and existing work by Scottish and international artists in solo and group presentations, and also undetakes commissions which enables artists to develop and make new work.
The Fruitmarket is a not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity. It is partially funded by the Scottish Arts Council but generates the majority of its income through commercial sponsorship, and trading. The Scottish Arts Council ( Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Ealain na h-Alba) is a public body that distributes funding from the Scottish Executive Education Any surpluses fund its creative programme.
The gallery, which openned in 1974, is located in a building which was originally built as a fruit and vegetable market in 1938.
The Fruitmarket is centrally located in Edinburgh's city centre, and close to Edinburgh's Waverley station. Edinburgh Waverley railway station, commonly referred to as just " Waverley " locally is the main Railway station in the Scottish capital It has an excellent café which is well used.
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