National Gallery

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
Greater London
WC2N 5DN
England

Website

National Gallery website

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Gallery online shop

www.nationalgallery.co.uk

E-mail

information@ng-london.org.uk

Telephone

020 7747 2885

Fax

020 7747 2423

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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One of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free.

Venue Type:

Gallery

 Opening hours

Open daily 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-21.00

 Admission charges

Admission free

 General services and facilities
  • Foreign language audio guide available
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • General audio-guide available
  • Guided tours
  • Information point provided
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Auditorium
  • Cafeteria
  • Refreshments
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Braille information and/or interpretation
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Induction loops in lecture theatres
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
  • Wheelchairs available for loan
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
  • Adult lectures and courses held

Additional info

The Gallery holds regular events given or interpreted in British Sign Language (BSL).
On the last Saturday of every month the ‘Art Through Words’ programme for blind and partially-sighted visitors examines one painting in the collection in detail.

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
Greater London
WC2N 5DN
England

Website

National Gallery website

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Gallery online shop

www.nationalgallery.co.uk

E-mail

information@ng-london.org.uk

Telephone

020 7747 2885

Fax

020 7747 2423

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

The National Gallery’s permanent collection spans the period from about 1250 to 1900 and consists of Western European paintings.

Collection details

Fine Art, Personalities, Religion, Social History

Key artists and exhibits

  • 'The Wilton Diptych'
  • Jan van Eyck 'The Arnolfini Portrait'
  • Paolo Uccello 'The Battle of San Romano'
  • Piero della Francesca 'The Baptism of Christ'
  • Sandro Botticelli 'Venus and Mars'
  • Leonardo da Vinci 'The Virgin of the Rocks'
  • Michelangelo 'The Entombment'
  • Giovanni Bellini 'The Doge Leonardo Loredan'
  • Raphael 'The Madonna of the Pinks'
  • Jan Gossaert 'The Adoration of the Kings'
  • Titian 'Bacchus and Ariadne'
  • Hans Holbein the Younger 'The Ambassadors'
  • Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 'The Supper at Emmaus'
  • Peter Paul Rubens 'Samson and Delilah'
  • Anthony Van Dyck, 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles I'
  • Rembrandt 'Self Portrait at the Age of 34'
  • Claude 'Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula'
  • Diego Velázquez 'The Rokeby Venus'
  • Johannes Vermeer 'A Young Woman standing at a Virginal'
  • Canaletto 'The Stonemason's Yard'
  • Thomas Gainsborough 'Mr and Mrs Andrews'
  • George Stubbs 'Whistlejacket'
  • François-Hubert Drouais 'Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame'
  • John Constable, 'The Hay Wain'
  • Joseph Mallord William Turner 'The Fighting Temeraire'
  • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 'Madame Moitessier'
  • Claude-Oscar Monet 'Bathers at La Grenouillère'
  • Georges Seurat 'Bathers at Asnières'
  • Vincent Van Gogh 'Sunflowers'
  • Paul Cezanne, 'Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses)'

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Specialist publications on collections available

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
Greater London
WC2N 5DN
England

Website

National Gallery website

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Gallery online shop

www.nationalgallery.co.uk

E-mail

information@ng-london.org.uk

Telephone

020 7747 2885

Fax

020 7747 2423

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude

14 March — 5 June 2012

Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude is the most in-depth examination of Turner's experience of Claude's art to date.

The exhibition includes oils, watercolours and sketchbooks and introduces visitors to the story of the Turner Bequest and its importance in the history of the National Gallery. The final room of the show exhibits archive material dedicated to this relationship.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

Sainsbury Wing

Admission

Admission charge

Website

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/turner-inspired

Titian's First Masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt

4 April — 2 September 2012

The exhibition will display Titian's masterpiece alongside contemporary Venetian works – both from the National Gallery and loans from other British collections – to demonstrate how Titian adapted ideas from other artists's work in order to create his sophisticated composition.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

Sunley Room

Admission

Free.

Website

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/titians-first-masterpiece-the-flight-into-egypt

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012

11 July — 23 September 2012

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 brings together a group of specially commissioned works by contemporary artists, choreographers, composers, dancers and poets in response to three of Titian's paintings – Diana and Actaeon, The Death of Actaeon and 'Diana and Callisto' – all of which were inspired by Ovid’s poem 'Metamorphoses'.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

Sainsbury Wing

Admission

Admission charge

Website

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/metamorphosis-titian-2012

Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present

31 October 2012 — 20 January 2013

This groundbreaking exhibition brings together exceptional examples of early and contemporary photography.

Works include those by leading photographers – including Tom Hunter, Thomas Struth, Craigie Horsfield, Sam Taylor-Wood and Beate Gütschow – who trace their sources back to 19th-century photography or, in some cases, even older historical art traditions.

Suitable for

  • Any age

Where

Sainsbury Wing

Admission

Admission charge

Website

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/seduced-by-art-photography-past-and-present

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
Greater London
WC2N 5DN
England

Website

National Gallery website

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Gallery online shop

www.nationalgallery.co.uk

E-mail

information@ng-london.org.uk

Telephone

020 7747 2885

Fax

020 7747 2423

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.
St James's Park

Photography workshop: Reconstructing the Ideal

24 March 2012

Inspired by the Gallery’s exhibition on Turner and Claude Lorrain, this workshop will investigate the process of making an ideal landscape image. Using digital cameras to record landscape elements in nearby St James’s Park, participants will then be introduced to simple photography and collage techniques back in the studio, in order to construct an ideal landscape. With Aliki Braine. Advance booking recommended.

Suitable for

  • 18+

When

10:30am-4:30pm

Where

Education Centre, The National Gallery

Admission

£38/£30 concessions

Website

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/workshop-24-march-2012

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
Greater London
WC2N 5DN
England

Website

National Gallery website

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Gallery online shop

www.nationalgallery.co.uk

E-mail

information@ng-london.org.uk

Telephone

020 7747 2885

Fax

020 7747 2423

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

Noisy Paintings

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/art_action_zone/noisy/interactive_structure/interactive.asp

Take One Picture

http://www.takeonepicture.org/

Take One Picture
Each year the National Gallery's Take One Picture scheme focuses on a painting from the Collection to inspire cross-curricular work in primary classrooms.
Paintings can be used for work in literacy, numeracy, ICT, science, history, art and design, craft, design and technology, and PSHEE and citizenship.
Each year the Gallery displays a selection of schools' work in the Take One Picture exhibition.

How to obtain

BOOKING NOW FOR WHOLE PRIMARY STAFF CPD DAYS
Please telephone 020 7747 2844 or email education@ng-london.org.uk for dates and availability.

Zoomable Pictures

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/collection?collectionName=Zoomable+Pictures

 Face to face resources

Magic Carpet Storytelling on Sundays

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/what/events/familysundays/under5.htm

Fly away on the magic carpet at The National Gallery as it comes to land in front of a different painting each Sunday. Enjoy stories that tie in with creative workshops happening on the same day, suitable for children under 5 years old. Come along at 10.30-11.00 or 11.30-12.00 to the Education Centre.

How to obtain

Booking is not necessary but places are limited and allocated on arrival. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Email information@ng-london.org.uk for further details.

The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
Greater London
WC2N 5DN
England

Website

National Gallery website

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Gallery online shop

www.nationalgallery.co.uk

E-mail

information@ng-london.org.uk

Telephone

020 7747 2885

Fax

020 7747 2423

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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