National Gallery
Guide
Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeMuseumAllow 1.5–3 hPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
Western European painting from the 1200s to about 1900, hung in grand top-lit rooms: Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Turner's ships, Constable's countryside and Renaissance altarpieces.
A brief history
The nation bought its first 38 pictures in 1824 and showed them in a private house on Pall Mall before this building opened in 1838.
Tips
- Best time
- Weekday mornings
- Cost
- Free; donations welcome
- Allow
- 1.5–3 h
- Free days
- Always free
- Hours
- Usually daily 10:00–18:00, later on Fridays (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- Westminster and St James's: Royal and political London: Trafalgar Square, Parliament, the Abbey and Buckingham Palace, linked by parks.
- Access
- Step-free
- Indoors or out
- Indoors: good on a hot or rainy day
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