Credit Suisse and the National Gallery in partnership

Since 2008, the National Gallery and Credit Suisse have been working together in a unique partnership, the first of its kind for the National Gallery. The partnership will provide a vital funding platform for the Gallery’s exhibitions and educational programmes.

Credit Suisse has a long and distinguished tradition of supporting the arts, working with leading cultural institutions to encourage innovative projects and wider access to theatre, dance, music and the visual arts. Other sponsorship commitments include the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Shanghai Museum, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Salzburg Festival and the Bolshoi Theatre.

Exhibition sponsorship

In 2011 Credit Suisse is sponsoring Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan.

Credit Suisse also sponsored Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals (winter 2010), Picasso: Challenging the Past (spring 2009) and the first partnership exhibition was Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist Painters 1891–1910 (summer 2008).

Late Night openings

Credit Suisse supports the Gallery’s late-night opening programme, which is attended by over 206,000 visitors every year. The Gallery is open late every Friday from 6–9pm.

Friday Lates programme 

Education

The National Gallery also works with Credit Suisse to provide special educational projects for schools and community organisations already supported by the bank.

In 2011 the Gallery worked with The Children’s Trust, Credit Suisse UK’s Charity of the Year, on a series of workshops for children – many of whom have sensory impairments and often complex health needs – to engage with and respond to the collection by creating their own works of art. These finished pieces will shortly be on display at The Children’s Trust Centre in Surrey for parents and carers to enjoy.

Workshops have also taken place with the Alzheimer’s Society and Credit Suisse partner schools.

Read more about outreach projects at the Gallery