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Galleries
National Gallery - Trafalgar Square
The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest
collections of European painting in the world. The National Gallery
houses more than 2000 European paintings from the 13th century to
1900.
National
Gallery Official Web Site
National
Portrait Gallery - Trafalgar Square
Next door to the National Gallery, The Gallery was
founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women.
Explore 120,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day.
National
Portrait Gallery Official Web Site
Tate
Britain - Near Westminster
Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art
from 1500 to the present day. Tate Britain holds the greatest collection
of British art in the world, including works by Blake, Constable,
Epstein, Gainsborough, Gilbert and George, Hatoum, Hirst, Hockney,
Hodgkin, Hogarth, Moore, Rossetti, Sickert, Spencer, Stubbs and
Turner.
Tate
Britain Official Web Site
Tate
Modern - Southwark
The Tate Modern is the UK's premier museum of Modern
Art. Tate Modern displays the Tate collection of international modern
art from 1900 to the present day, including major works by Dalí,
Picasso, Matisse, Rothko and Warhol as well as contemporary work
by artists such as Dorothy Cross, Gilbert & George and Susan
Hiller.
Tate
Modern Official web Site
The
Wallace Collection - Off Oxford Street
25 galleries of unsurpassed displays of French 18th
century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master
paintings and a world class armoury. Displays the works of art collected
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the first four Marquesses
of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace
Wallace
Collection Official web Site
Serpentine Gallery - Kensington Gardens
Galleries for modern and contemporary art.
showcases work by the finest contemporary artists working across
a huge variety of media. In the grounds of the Gallery is a permanent
work by artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, dedicated to the Serpentine’s
former Patron Diana, Princess of Wales.
Serpentine
Gallery Official web Site
Galleries with admission charges
Royal Academy of Arts - Piccadilly
Bit of everything. Remit reads '‘to promote
the arts of design’, that is: to present a broad range of visual
art to the widest possible audience; to stimulate debate, understanding
and creation through education; and to provide a focus for the interests
of artists and art-lovers"
Royal
Academy Official web Site
Dali Exhibition - County Hall
Permanent collection of Dali's works in the former
County Hall building, next to Westminster Bridge and the London
Eye. The permanent exhibition houses the largest collection of Dalí
sculpture in the world as well as rare graphics, jewellery, furniture
and watercolours.
Dali
Exhibition Official web Site
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
- The Mall off Trafalgar Square
The sometimes 'naughty boy' of the galleries. Conceived
in 1947 by a group of artists and patrons i as a "laboratory"
or "playground" for contemporary arts. It continues to
challenge traditional notions and boundaries of art forms.
ICA
Official web Site
Saatchi
Gallery - Sloane Square
Modern gallery of contemporary art, privately managed
by the Saatchi brothers, who made millions out of advertising. Presents
work by largely unseen young artists or by international artists
whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK.
Saatchi
Gallery Official web Site
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