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A journey into the collection...

Palette to plate

Category: Tour | From £20

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

11 am - 12 pm
2 - 3 pm
4 - 5 pm

Annenberg Court

A series of themed guided tours throughout the gallery's collection
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
Picture of the Month: Mary Magdalene

10-minute talk

Category: Talk | Free

Various dates
Wednesday, 30 April 2025

4 - 4.10 pm (drop-in)

Room 9

A brief introduction to our current picture of the month
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
Holbein: The Ambassadors

Members' talk and Q&A

Category: Talk | Online | Members | Free

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

6 - 7 pm BST

This is the story of a beloved Tudor painting

Book now Holbein: The Ambassadors: Members' talk and Q&A
Talk and tour

The language of landscape

Category: Talks & conversations | Free

Thursday, 1 May 2025

1 - 2 pm (drop-in)

Central Hall

Join educators Alex Bowie and Bethan Durie for the language of landscape tour
Curators' online tour of Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300‒1350

Members' stream and Q&A

Category: Talk | Online | Members | From £10

Thursday, 1 May 2025

7 - 8.15 pm BST

Journey through this five-star exhibition

Book now Curators' online tour of Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300‒1350: Members' stream and Q&A
Talk and draw

Cephalus carried off by Aurora in her Chariot

Category: Creative session | Online | Free

Friday, 2 May 2025

4 - 5 pm BST

Accessible:

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Our regular creative sessions consider a Gallery painting in two ways

Book now Talk and draw: Cephalus carried off by Aurora in her Chariot
Art and society

Category: Course | Online | From £42.75

Tuesday, 22 April - Tuesday, 6 May 2025

3.30 - 5.30 pm BST

Join us to learn about art’s relationship to politics and society across centuries through artworks in the National Gallery

Enrol Art and society
A National Gallery birthday quiz

Members' event

Category: Talk | Online | Members | Free

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

6 - 7 pm BST

How well do you know the National Gallery?

Book now A National Gallery birthday quiz: Members' event
Painting with egg tempera

Category: Course | From £288

Wednesday, 7 - Wednesday, 28 May 2025

2 - 5.30 pm

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

Learn how to make your own egg tempera paintings with artist Robin-Lee Hall in this four-week painting course

Enrol Painting with egg tempera
Home-education art session

A creative connection of art, people and ideas

Category: Creative session | Families | Free Fully booked

Thursday, 8 May 2025

10.30 am - 12.30 pm

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

Join Gallery Educator and artist Joanna Conybeare for an explore of the gallery and a creative session in the Art Studio
The art of Siena

Category: Course | Online | From £42.75

Thursday, 8 - Thursday, 22 May 2025

3.30 - 5 pm BST

Explore masterpieces of Sienese art in a short course complementing our exhibition, 'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350'

Enrol The art of Siena
Members' Preview Day

The Sainsbury Wing

Category: Experience | Members | Free

Friday, 9 May 2025

10 am - 9 pm

Sainsbury Wing Entrance

Be the first to see the Sainsbury Wing before it opens to the public

Book now Members' Preview Day: The Sainsbury Wing
A curatorial perspective of C C Land: The Wonder of Art

Curatorial panel discussion

Category: Talks & conversations | Members | From £15

Friday, 9 May 2025

11 am - 12.30 pm

Sainsbury Wing Theatre

Bart Cornelis, Laura Llewellyn , Christine Riding and Per Rumberg

Join our curators for an in-person panel discussion in the reopened Pigott Theatre

Book now A curatorial perspective of C C Land: The Wonder of Art: Curatorial panel discussion
A curatorial perspective of C C Land: The Wonder of Art (Livestream)

Curatorial panel discussion

Category: Talk | Online | Members | From £15

Friday, 9 May 2025

11 am - 12.30 pm BST

Bart Cornelis, Laura Llewellyn , Christine Riding and Per Rumberg

Stream this exclusive Members' event about our once-in-a-lifetime rehang

Book now A curatorial perspective of C C Land: The Wonder of Art (Livestream): Curatorial panel discussion
Fully booked
A tour of the Sainsbury Wing

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

Tour times

1 - 2.30 pm
3.30 - 5 pm
5.45 - 7.15 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A comprehensive tour of paintings in the reopened Sainsbury Wing.
Our collection redisplayed

Rococo to Romanticism

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

1.30 - 2.15 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours
Our collection redisplayed

Towards Modernism

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

2 - 2.45 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours
Our collection redisplayed

Deceiving the eye: Dutch perspectives

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

4 - 4.45 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours

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