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Welcome space weekends and holidays

Our dedicated space for families

Category: Creative session | Families | Free

Saturday and Sundays, Bank holidays and school holidays (Westminster Borough)

10 am - 6 pm (drop-in)

The Welcome Space

We have free drop-in activities and drawing sessions every weekend and school holiday
Curator's introduction

The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making

Category: Lunchtime talk | Free

Monday, 2 June 2025

1 - 1.45 pm, doors open at 12.30 pm

Pigott Theatre

Curator Christine Seidel introduces our Carracci exhibition
Mud Sun: Richard Long and the National Gallery

Category: Talk | Free

Monday, 2 June 2025

3 - 3.20 pm (drop-in)

Sainsbury Wing staircase

Daniel F. Herrmann

Curator Daniel F. Hermann introduces a brand-new work by Richard Long, now on permanent display in the Sainsbury Wing
The Renaissance cartoon

Members' online talk and Q&A

Category: Talk | Online | Members | Free

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

1 - 2 pm BST

Preparatory drawings or art in their own right?

Book now The Renaissance cartoon: Members' online talk and Q&A
Guided tour

Category: Tour | Free

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays (excluding public holidays)

3 - 4 pm

Central Hall

Experience a 60-minute taster tour of the collection
Brilliant light: A history of light in Western European painting

Category: Course | Online | From £57

Tuesday, 3 - Tuesday, 24 June 2025

3.30 - 5.30 pm BST

Learn about the role of light symbolically and technically in paintings throughout the centuries in this four-week art historical course

Enrol Brilliant light: A history of light in Western European painting
C C Land: The Wonder of Art

Spotlight on Room 45

Category: Talk | Free

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

4 - 4.10 pm (drop-in)

Room 45

A bite-sized introduction to one of our redisplayed galleries
Our collection redisplayed

Led by Kate Davey

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

11 am - 12.30 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A complete tour of 'C C Land: The Wonder of Art'

Book Our collection redisplayed: Led by Kate Davey now
Our collection redisplayed

Radical innovation and rivalry

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

2 - 3 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided tours of Renaissance and Baroque paintings in the collection

Book Our collection redisplayed: Radical innovation and rivalry now
Picture of the month: Boy bitten by a Lizard

10-minute talk

Category: Talk | Free

Various dates, first upcoming
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

4 - 4.10 pm (drop-in)

Room 32

A brief introduction to June's picture of the month
Our collection redisplayed

Power and piety

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

4 - 5 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided tours of Renaissance and Baroque paintings in the collection

Book Our collection redisplayed: Power and piety now
Stories of Art 1700-1800

Category: Course | Online | From £85.50

Wednesday, 30 April - Wednesday, 4 June 2025

5.30 - 7.30 pm BST

Discover vibrant, dynamic and complex 18th-century art, from the Rococo to the Enlightenment

Enrol Stories of Art 1700-1800
Poussin

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Tour times

10.15 - 11.15 am
11.45 am - 12.45 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A guided tour of paintings in the collection by Nicolas Poussin
Lunchtime listen

Titian in music

Category: Music | Free

Thursday, 5 June 2025

1 - 2 pm (drop-in)

Room 8

London Obbligato Collective explore the mythological stories of Bacchus and Ariadne, and Actaeon, through music
Rembrandt: Painting the light

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Tour times

2 - 3 pm
4 - 5 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A guided tour of paintings by Rembrandt in the Gallery
Creative workshop

Capturing clouds in art: Week 1

Category: Creative session | Free

Thursday, 5 June 2025

2.45 - 3.45 pm (drop-in)

Room 41

Bethan Durie

Join us for a cloud sketching workshop inspired by our current exhibition 'Jose Maria Velasco: A View of Mexico'
One Painting, One Story: Monet's The Water-Lily Pond

Online Members' talk and Q&A

Category: Talk | Online | Members | Free

Thursday, 5 June 2025

4 - 5 pm BST

Dive into Monet's water-lilies

Book now One Painting, One Story: Monet's The Water-Lily Pond: Online Members' talk and Q&A
British Sign Language talk

The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the making

Category: Talk | Free

Friday, 6 June 2025

6 - 7 pm (drop-in)

Room 1

Accessible:

Deaf lecturer Edward Richards gives an introduction to our Carracci exhibition, in British Sign Language (BSL)
Art distilled

Nancy meets Per

Category: Talks & conversations | Members | From £25

Friday, 6 June 2025

6.15 - 7.15 pm

Supporters' House Salon

A spirited blend of art and expertly crafted cocktails

Book Art distilled: Nancy meets Per now
In focus: Canaletto

Category: Talks & conversations | Members | From £15

Monday, 9 June 2025

11 am - 12 pm

Supporters' House Salon

A course preview

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