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ArtSpace in the City Art Centre

Come and have fun in our family area in the Lower Ground Floor at the City Art Centre!

ArtSpace in the City Art Centre

About ArtSpace in the City Art Centre

25th Feb 2025 to 31st Dec 2025
Open in line with exhibitions on lower gallery, 10am-5pm
City Art Centre
2 Market Street, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1DE
This is a free event
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Our activity area is packed full of art materials and worksheets relating to our exhibitions. We offer a warm and welcoming space for family groups to work creatively together and to stay as long as you like. Open daily 10am-5pm.

The City Art Centre and ArtSpace is a venue and space which is part of the ‘Warm and Welcoming Spaces’ programme in City of Edinburgh Council.

With the colder months of the year now upon us City of Edinburgh Council is pleased announce the launch of a network of Warm and Welcoming Spaces across the capital.

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