The immense breadth of Scotland's culture - the ancient, the traditional, the contemporary, the diasporic and the newly-arrived - can never be captured in full on one website.

This section of the Scotland Cultural Profile features informative essays on Scottish culture, plus a detailed database of more than 5,250 key agencies working in the Scottish arts, media, heritage, libraries, archives and tourism sectors. Where possible, other web resources are listed to enable the reader to go deeper into each sector. Please use the navigation bar on the left to explore this rich and colourful mix of creativity and heritage.

More information about artists from or working in Scotland is available on the Culturebase.net international artist database.

Use the navigation bar on the left to read this section.