Amongst the many old-fashioned (boring?) portraits there are some recent ones that are very refreshing. Ken Currie painted "The Oncologists" in a serious way. And there is a lively painting of Peter Higgs by Lady Lucinda Mackay that I liked very much. When I told an old friend about it at dinner that night, she said, 'Oh, we have two sketches by her." I see that the writer Alexander McCall Smith dedicated his novel "44 Scotland Street" to her.
There is much to explore in the old/new museum and I hope to have more time on my next visit to Scotland.
