Wallace Collection, London

The Wallace Collection
Hertford House
Manchester Square
London
W1U 3BN
England

Website

www.wallacecollection.org

E-mail

booking@wallacecollection.org

Telephone

Education Department

020 7563 9551

General Enquiries

020 7563 9500

Fax

020 7224 2155

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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A national museum in a historic London town house. Its works of art were acquired in the 19th Century by 4 generations of the Hertford family and the Fourth Marquess of Hertford's illegitimate son, Sir Richard Wallace.

Venue type

Museum

 Opening hours

Mon-Sun 10:00-17:00

 Admission charges

FREE ADMISSION

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language audio guide available
  • Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
  • General audio-guide available
  • Guided tours
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Auditorium
  • Cafeteria
  • Gardens open to public
  • Picnic area
  • Refreshments
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • 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
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Research and adult learning
Commercial and hire services
  • Licensed for weddings
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

The Wallace Collection
Hertford House
Manchester Square
London
W1U 3BN
England

Website

www.wallacecollection.org

E-mail

booking@wallacecollection.org

Telephone

Education Department

020 7563 9551

General Enquiries

020 7563 9500

Fax

020 7224 2155

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 twenty five galleries are a feast of French 18th Century paintings, furniture and porcelain from the Courts of Louis IV & IV of France and Marie Antoinette. The Wallace is also famous for Frans Hals's Laughing Cavalier and a host of other superb Old Master Paintings, as well as the biggest collection of antique arms and armour outside the Royal Armouries in Leeds.

Collection details

Archives, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Weapons and War, World Cultures

Key artists and exhibits

  • Hals
  • Boucher
  • Canneletto
  • Rubins
  • Rembrandt
  • Velasquez
  • Van Dyke
  • Reynolds
  • Gainsborough
  • Fragonard
  • Titian
  • Guardi
  • Watteau
  • Riesner & Boule furniture
  • Sevres Porcelain

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available
  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Public access available to collections information
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

The Wallace Collection
Hertford House
Manchester Square
London
W1U 3BN
England

Website

www.wallacecollection.org

E-mail

booking@wallacecollection.org

Telephone

Education Department

020 7563 9551

General Enquiries

020 7563 9500

Fax

020 7224 2155

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

Shooting Buildings website

http://www.shootingbuildings.com

During the Shooting Buildings project in 2008, students from two London schools worked with a professional photographer to explore architecture and space through digital photography, both at the Wallace Collection and at their schools. This online gallery is the exciting culmination of the 2008 workshops.

Creator

  • Wallace Collection
  • Olivia Hemingway
  • Elthorne Park High School
  • West London Academy School

How to obtain

We are running a similar project in spring term 2009. If you would like your school to participate please contact the Education Administrator on 020 7563 9551, or go to www.wallacecollection.org/learning

The Wallace Collection
Hertford House
Manchester Square
London
W1U 3BN
England

Website

www.wallacecollection.org

E-mail

booking@wallacecollection.org

Telephone

Education Department

020 7563 9551

General Enquiries

020 7563 9500

Fax

020 7224 2155

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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