2 Mar – 16 Sept

Daily 9.30am – 6pm
Admission
Adult £5
Over 60/Student £4.50
Under 17 £3

Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

This extraordinary exhibition brings together the works of four artists and a collector who have shaped our knowledge of the world around us. It has been selected from the collections of the Royal Library in collaboration with the distinguished naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. Leonardo da Vinci, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian and Mark Catesby are diverse figures who shared a passion for enquiry and a fascination with the beautiful and bizarre in nature. Many of the plants and animals in these remarkable drawings were barely known in Europe. Today some are commonplace, others are extinct.

www.royalcollection.org.uk

Palace of Holyroodhouse Edinburgh EH8 8DX
0131 556 5100