National Gallery London's 200th anniversary

The National Gallery: a place of learning in its (public) archive

The London museum has a remarkable archive and library, available to all, and a research strategy that includes the opening of a new research centre in 2028

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London’s National Gallery acquires major work by Lawrence Alma-Tadema for £2m

The painting, purchased with the help of Christie’s auction house, is a prime example of the Victorian artist’s interest in antiquity

The National Gallery: a place of learning on the road

With workshops, crafting sessions and special events, Art Road Trip is collaborating with communities across the UK to produce inspired results

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'We’re embedding learning into the building': inside the National Gallery's upscaled education programme

The National Gallery, which once housed the Royal Academy of Arts, has been home to study, scholarship and education since its earliest days

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The National Gallery's birthday wish: social media fame for its Creative Collaborators

Chosen from an open call, 20 influencers are creating content inspired by the gallery’s treasures, from pot-throwing to painting and a comedy Regency romp

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'What is the museum of the future?' The National Gallery's forward-looking digital strategy

Experimentation, freedom and in-house content are key to how the gallery engages with its five million followers on social media

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Medieval Siena gets its place in the spotlight at the National Gallery

An exhibition at the London museum, organised with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings together masterpieces by the likes of Duccio and Simone

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The Triumph of Art: Jeremy Deller prepares the National Gallery's concluding bicentenary celebrations

The gallery’s bicentenary celebrations will be completed in Trafalgar Square next summer with a “bacchanal” event masterminded by the artist with the help of institutions from around the UK

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A very national gallery: how the London museum's collection is being shown around the UK this summer

Under the National Treasures scheme, 12 UK museums are mounting exhibitions around the loan of masterpieces from the National Gallery

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Something (free) for everyone at the National Gallery

The London institution was founded in 1824 to be “free to anyone who applied at the door”. That principle, epitomised by the exhibition "Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look", sits at the heart of the bicentennial celebrations

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From Wornum's diary to EM Forster's fire-watching: tales from the National Gallery’s archive

Nick Smith, the gallery's archivist, tells three of his favourite stories from 200 years of records at the Trafalgar Square institution

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More than 1,100 works by 400 artists: how the National Gallery collection will be redisplayed

In May 2025, after a nine-month programme of refurbishing, redesigning and relighting rooms, a new interpretation of the museum will be unveiled

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National Gallery's £85m anniversary capital projects to offer visitors a new welcome

Gabriele Finaldi, the gallery’s director, speaks of the opportunities and challenges that come with the sheer scale of the NG200 programme, and beyond

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In residence: how contemporary artists reimagine the National Gallery's paintings

For more than 30 years, the National Gallery has invited artists to respond to the art inside. Here are three highlights

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The National Gallery, London: an artists’ collection for two centuries

The gallery's curators reveal the role played by living artists and women in building the institution’s all-embracing character over the past 200 years

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The Constable trail: National Gallery to focus on the social, political and artistic context of the artist's 'The Hay Wain'

Visitors on foot to Dedham Vale, in Suffolk, can view the remarkably well preserved locations of John Constable's paintings of the countryside in which he was nurtured

‘It's stuck with me all my life’: David Hockney on Piero della Francesca’s Baptism of Christ

Ahead of an exhibition at the National Gallery in London that will pair two of his works with the Renaissance masterpiece, Hockney talks about what makes the work so special

Hockney meets a Renaissance master in National Gallery two-hander

Exhibition to explore David Hockney’s lifelong association with the London museum and engagement with Piero della Francesca’s “The Baptism of Christ“

The National Gallery, London, celebrates its bicentenary with a full-colour Big Birthday Weekend

Music, poetry, and Renaissance selfies are on the menu and—for two nights only—the Trafalgar Square frontage will be lit up with a dazzling, projection-mapped show on the museum's 200-year history

Gabriele Finaldi welcomes a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity to rethink London’s National Gallery

As the London museum celebrates its 200th birthday, its director speaks to The Art Newspaper about plans to reopen the Sainsbury Wing in May 2025, rehang the collection and consider work on a further extension

Revealed: London's National Gallery will stage a Van Gogh blockbuster as part of its 2024 bicentenary celebrations

Star loans include The Bedroom, Garden of the Asylum and—of course—the exhibition will show the museum's own Sunflowers

London's National Gallery appoints architect Annabelle Selldorf for its major renovation

First phase of the work is due to be completed by May 2024, in time for the gallery’s 200th anniversary