Abstract
In this paper I will look at the two national portrait galleries in Great Britain (the English institution in London and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh) and compare their strategies for presenting the collections of certain eminent men and women. Such strategies served to convey the significance of these figures both for the nation and for each museum's history. Choices of architecture, style, and decorative scheme, as well as the setting for the collection and its display, will be analysed in order to understand these institutional modes of reconstructing and visualizing national history.
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