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Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between

Book talk

Category: Talks & conversations | Members | From £15

Friday, 13 June 2025

11 am - 12 pm

Supporters' House Salon

Author Gemma Rolls-Bentley in conversation with arts journalist, Amelia Abraham

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The National Gallery: A History

Book talk

Category: Talks & conversations | Members | From £15

Friday, 13 June 2025

2 - 3 pm

Supporters' House Salon

Author Jonathan Conlin in conversation with Alan Crookham

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The Antinori wine tasting

Category: Experience | Members | From £100

Friday, 13 June 2025

6 - 7 pm

Supporters' House Salon

Wine tasting in the Salon

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Temples of art

The architectural history of the British art gallery

Category: Talk | Free

Friday, 13 June 2025

6.30 - 7.30 pm (drop-in)

Pigott Theatre

As we come to the end of our Bicentenary year, architectural editor John Goodall reflects on 200 years of the National Gallery, and public art galleries more widely
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
Seeing the Light: the Art of Looking in and around Duccio's 'Maestà

Category: Lunchtime talk | Free

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

1 - 1.45 pm, doors open at 12.30 pm (drop-in)

Pigott Theatre

Join art historian Richard Stemp for an in-depth look at Duccio’s 'Maestà'
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 30: C C Land: The Wonder of Art Spotlight talks

Category: Talk | Free

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

4 - 4.10 pm (drop-in)

Room 30

A bite-sized introduction to one of our redisplayed galleries
Early Years story session

Category: Creative session | Families, under-5s | Free Fully booked

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

10.30 - 11.30 am, doors open at 10.20 am

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning - Welcome Space

An adventure through the Gallery with story and rhyme
The innovators' debating club

Category: Talks & conversations | Members | From £20

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

2 - 3 pm

Supporters' House Salon

Celebrity culture: Gainsborough's 'Mrs Siddons'

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Picture of the month: Boy bitten by a Lizard

10-minute talk

Category: Talk | Free

Various dates, first upcoming
Wednesday, 18 June 2025

4 - 4.10 pm (drop-in)

Room 32

A brief introduction to June's picture of the month
Stories of Art 1800-1900

Category: Course | Online | From £85.50

Wednesday, 11 June - Wednesday, 16 July 2025

5.30 - 7.30 pm BST

Dive into the revolutionary 19th century to learn about the art of the Pre-Raphaelites, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists

Enrol Stories of Art 1800-1900
Into the collection

Painting women

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Thursday, 19 June 2025

10.15 - 11.15 am
11.45 am - 12.45 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A series of themed guided tours throughout the Gallery's collection
Adult Summer Schools in the Clore Art Studio

Category: Experiences

Thursday, 19 June - Friday, 29 August 2025

Clore Art Studio and in the galleries

This summer, immerse yourself in art-making and creative exploration by joining one of our in-depth summer schools onsite at the Gallery
Rhythm and anatomy: Drawing the human figure

Category: Course | From £486

Thursday, 19 - Saturday, 21 June 2025

11 am - 5 pm

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

Develop your figure drawing skills in this three-day summer school, guided by classical techniques and works from the Gallery’s collection with artist Adele Wagstaff

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Hogarth's London

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Tour times

2 - 3 pm
4 - 5 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A guided tour of William Hogarth's paintings in the Gallery
Reflecting on Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350

Online Members' event

Category: Talk | Online | Members | Free

Thursday, 19 June 2025

4 - 5 pm BST

Revisit Siena before the exhibition closes

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'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350' - Conference

Category: Conference | From £12

Friday, 20 June 2025

Please note event will start at 9.30am
9 am - 5.45 pm, doors open at 8.30 am

Pigott Theatre

Hear about the remarkable achievements of Siena’s artists and the significance of Sienese painting in the wider world during the late Middle Ages.

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'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350' - Online conference

Category: Conference | Online | From £10

Friday, 20 June 2025

Please note event will start at 9.30am
9 am - 5.45 pm BST

Hear about the remarkable achievements of Siena’s artists and the significance of Sienese painting in the wider world during the late Middle Ages.

Book now 'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350' - Online conference

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