Departments
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.
The department also organises occasional exhibitions, and is responsible for the Associate Artist programme.
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.
Find out more about the National Gallery Library
New Media
The New 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.
Information
The Information team (which also reports to the Visitor Services and Security Department) is responsible for the provision of information and assistance to visitors to the Gallery.
See also
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A list of current Trustees to the Board of the National Gallery -
Biography of Nicholas Penny, the Director of the National Gallery.
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Discover how the Gallery is organised and funded
