The Scottish government is studying an idea of transforming an old building into A Scottish version of Tate Modern or the Guggenheim. “Arts insiders say the 15,000sqm building could become a Scottish version of the Tate Modern or the Guggenheim.” But Sir Timothy Clifford, the flamboyant director general of the National Gallery of Scotland, has told culture minister Patricia Ferguson that the project smacked of “regional towns in England.”