The National Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6pm, and late on Fridays until 9pm.
It is usually closed 24th to 26th December and 1st January
Opening hours last checked June 2023.
Accessibility
The galleries are fully accessible with lifts to all floors. There are accessible toilets near the main entrance.
For disabled parking, there is some limited parking by the gallery - and you need to contact them in advance to secure a place.
The Gallery offers British Sign Language-interpreted talks on paintings for visitors who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, and art sessions for visitors who are blind and partially sighted.
This exhibition, the first major retrospective of Hals in more than thirty years, means a new generation can discover why he deserves his place as one of the greatest painters in Western art.
For the first time in 250 years, this exhibition reunites the pastel masterpiece by Swiss artist Jean-Etienne Liotard, painted in Lyon in 1754, with the painted version in oil he completed in London almost 20 years later.
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610, lent by the Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, will be displayed alongside another late work by the Italian artist from the National Gallery Collection, Salome receives the Head of John the Baptist, about 1609–10.
Open from Thu 18th April 2024 to Sun 21st July 2024
Degas’s Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando takes centre stage in this exhibition that sheds light on this work with newly discovered information about the painting and its sitter.
Open from Thu 6th June 2024 to Sun 1st September 2024
In 1754, an artist painted a family breakfast scene in pastels. Nearly two decades later, he painted it again in oils, but the two paintings have never been in the same room – until now.
Big moustaches, big smiles, loads of white lace and an awful lot of black fabric dominate the National Gallery’s winter blockbuster exhibition devoted to Frans Hals.
A true riches to rags story is being told in the National Gallery at the moment, with a large exhibition about an Italian, Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, who gave his wealth away to live a life of poverty.
Summer 2023 sees the third iteration of the National Gallery’s acclaimed Visits tour, this year seeing John Constable’s The Cornfield popping up in unusual and unexpected public spaces around England.
London is about to get a new tunnel, albeit a short one, as the National Gallery plans to link two buildings via an underground tunnel so the public can walk between them.
A painting you are unlikely to have seen, and yet will somehow recognise instantly has just gone on display at the National Gallery — and this is An Old Woman by the painter, Quinten Massys.
Two large paintings by Turner have gone on show in London for the first time in over a century, and also for the first time ever, are side by side in the same room.
An illustrator who recorded the USA’s civil war and later turned from drawings to painting to become one of America’s preeminent artists is the subject of a large exhibition at the National Gallery.
The National Gallery will be offering a chance to visit the Lucian Freud exhibition on Friday evenings with tickets from just £1 each, thanks to its first ever “Pay What You Wish” pricing scheme.
Two Turner paintings owned by a US gallery will return to the UK for the first time in over 100 years, to go on display in a free National Gallery exhibition.
Two paintings, one classically 19th-century and another 20th-century modern painting that is its artistic mirror have gone on display together for the first time.
More than his contemporaries, if you wanted a grand painting or church decorated in 16th-century Italy, there was only one person to call on, named after a saint, if without the saintly behaviour, it was Raphael.
For a couple of months, it’s possible to see a painting in London whose sale a century ago to an America caused an outcry to save it for the nation. Unsuccessfully.
A century after it was sold to an American railway tycoon, one of Thomas Gainsborough’s most famous paintings will return to London for a short exhibition.
