Queen's Gallery
Queen's Gallery is located in Central London
Queen's Gallery
Location within Central London
Established1962 (1962)
LocationBuckingham Palace
London, SW1
United Kingdom
Public transit accessLondon Underground National Rail Bus rapid transit Victoria
WebsiteOfficial website

The Queen's Gallery is the public art gallery of Buckingham Palace, the official residence of the British monarch, in London. First opened to the public in the reign of Elizabeth II in 1962, it exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection on a rotating basis. Enlarged in the early 21st century, the gallery has its own separate public access entrance built in a 'new' classical style and typically displays about 450 works, mainly paintings and drawings.

Building history

The gallery forms the most protruding south wing of the Palace. It is on the site of the palace chapel bombed during the Second World War. The gallery opened in 1962; in the next 37 years the gallery received 5 million visitors, until its closure in 1999 for refurbishment and expansion. The work was commissioned from architect John Simpson. On 21 May 2002, the gallery was reopened by Elizabeth II to coincide with her Golden Jubilee.[1] The new work included the Doric entrance portico, new rooms, more than tripling the space available. It is open to the public during the day for most of the year.

Exhibitions

An exhibition at the Queen's Gallery
  • From May to October 2019, the Queen's Gallery housed an exhibition of 200 of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings from the Royal Collection[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace Archived 10 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine April 2016
  2. ↑ "LEONARDO DA VINCI: A LIFE IN DRAWING". Royal Collection Trust.
  3. ↑ "Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing review". Time Out.
  • Fisher, Mark (2004). Britain's Best Museums and Galleries. London: Penguin.
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