An afternoon of free, specially curated performances
Category:Course, From £35.25
Rebirth and resurrection: Easter scenes at the National Gallery
Thursday, 14 March 2024 - Thursday, 28 March 2024
3.30 - 5.30 pm GMT
Online event
This spring, investigate the theme of rebirth through paintings in our collection
Category:Creative session, Free
Easter holidays
Construct and play with Leap Then Look
Various dates, first upcoming
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
11 am - 4 pm
Room 8
Families, for all ages
Join participatory artists Leap Then Look to test works in progress during a playful drop-in family workshop
Category:Tour, Free
Easter holidays
Decoding pictures
First upcoming
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Session times
11.30 am - 12.15 pm
1.30 - 2.15 pm
Room 8
Families, ages 5 - 13
Have fun choosing paintings and creating the direction of your journey through the Gallery, with our friendly Gallery Educators
Category:Tour, Free
Daily guided tour
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays (excluding public holidays)
3 - 4 pm
Central Hall
Experience a 60-minute taster tour of the collection
Category:Course, From £70.50
Thinking about art: Philosophical approaches to art history
Tuesday, 2 April 2024 - Tuesday, 7 May 2024
3.30 - 5.30 pm BST
Online event
From the beautiful and the sublime, through the emotions, to politics, join us to learn how to connect philosophical concepts to art
Category:Creative session, Free
Life drawing: Playing with the unfinished
Online session
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
6.30 - 7.30 pm BST
Online event
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Join us for a free online life drawing class that will enhance your skills, while playing with what makes a ‘finished’ drawing
Category:Talks & conversations
Women's History Month
Celebrate women in the collection with events, features and films
Category:Course, From £70.50
Stories of art
1600-1700
Wednesday, 28 February 2024 - Wednesday, 3 April 2024
5.30 - 7.30 pm BST
Online event
Join us to learn about art from the Baroque period with artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Rachel Ruysch, Poussin, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Velázquez
Category:Creative session, Free
Easter holidays
Gold reflections
Various dates, first upcoming
Thursday, 4 April 2024
11 am - 4 pm
Room 8
Families, for all ages
Wonder at the gold in our paintings and rooms, and play with your creative ideas
Category:Experiences
Friday Lates
Fridays
We're open until 9pm every Friday, so you can take in our collection and exhibitions after hours, and enjoy special events throughout the month
Category:Music, From £16
Bach's Flute Sonatas
Trevor Pinnock, Anna Kondrashina and Sarah McMahon
Friday, 5 April 2024
7 - 8.15 pm
Room 34
Join us for a flute, cello and harpsichord concert in the unique setting of the Gallery
Category:Creative session, Free
Easter holidays
Sensory connections
Various dates, first upcoming
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
11 am - 4 pm
Room 8
Families, for all ages
Come and interact with a material-rich environment to create your own games and stories, inspired by spaces and paintings
Category:Lunchtime talk, Free
Piero di Cosimo's 'A Satyr mourning over a Nymph'
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
1 - 1.30 pm (drop-in)
Gallery C
Belle Smith
Join Gallery Educator Belle Smith for a lunchtime talk about this mysterious painting
Category:Creative session, Free
Easter holidays
Imaginative play
Thursday, 11 April 2024
11 am - 4 pm (drop-in)
Room 8
Families, for all ages
Explore themes in our paintings and respond with imagination and play
Category:Course, From £11.75
In focus: Rembrandt
Thursday, 11 April 2024
5.30 - 7.30 pm BST
Online event
Join us to explore the vibrant life and work of Rembrandt, with tutor Jo Walton
Category:Talk, Free
Painted faces: Make-up through the ages
Members' talk and Q&A
Friday, 12 April 2024
5 - 6 pm BST
Online event
Members
Alex Teng takes us from paint brush to powder blush in this online talk about the history of make-up in art
Category:Course, From £96
Life drawing: Playing with the unfinished
Onsite art-making course
Saturday, 13 April 2024
11 am - 5 pm
Central Hall
Participate in a one-day onsite course, filled with life drawing, experimentation, and the ‘unfinished’
Category:Talk, From £10
Curator's introduction: The Last Caravaggio
Members' talk and Q&A
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
4 - 5 pm BST
Dr Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
Online event
Members
Join curator Francesca Whitlum-Cooper for an introduction to 'The Last Caravaggio' before the exhibition opens to the public
Category:Talk, From £18
Members' preview day talk: The Last Caravaggio
Members' talk and private view
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Session times
8 - 8.40 am
9 - 9.40 am
Room 45
Members
Join guide Maurizio Patti bright and early for a talk and private view of 'The Last Caravaggio' exhibition on Members' preview day