Departments

Public Engagement

Communications

The Marketing team plans and implements advertising campaigns to raise awareness of the Gallery, its collection and activities.

The Press team is responsible for managing the Gallery's profile through the media.

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Design

The Design team develops publicity and advertising material for the Gallery as well as working on the installation of temporary exhibitions.

Velazquez poster on display in a tube station

A boy using Artstart and listening to an explanation

A young visitor using ArtStart

Digital Media

The Digital Media team develops and maintains the Gallery's various multimedia resources, including the website, ArtStart, interactive facilities around the Gallery, videos, plasma screens and audio guide tours.

Audio guide management is also a responsibility of the Department, as well as the production of the monthly Podcast, one-off Podcasts and audio guide downloads.

Education

A wide variety of services is provided for adults, families and school children, including lectures, guided tours, study days to complement exhibitions, short talks, short courses and workshops, holiday activities and continuing professional development courses for primary and secondary school teachers.

The department runs an extensive outreach programme of talks and workshops.

Three children rolling up a workshop carpet

A group of adults on a guided tour

Exhibitions

This department organises and mounts temporary exhibitions, working with the curatorial team to plan and co-ordinate exhibition programmes and, with the Design Department, on the installation of exhibitions.

Libraries and Archive

The principal purpose of the Gallery's private library is to assist the curatorial, education and other staff in researching, writing about and lecturing on the collection. It is not open to the general public. It contains over 50,000 books, many of them rare, as well as periodicals, exhibition catalogues and pamphlets.

There is also a photographic and slide library. The Archive preserves letters, reports, minutes, press cuttings and other material relating to the history of the Gallery and its collection from 1824 to the present day.

A man using a book at a table in the gallery library

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National Programmes

We work in partnership and collaboration with museums and institutions throughout the UK to support public learning and enjoyment for all levels and ages. National Programmes manages the Subject Specialist Network for European Painting pre–1900 as well as the Art Fund Curatorial Traineeships.