Queen's Gallery

This article is about the gallery at Buckingham Palace. For the gallery in Edinburgh, see Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh.
Queen's Gallery
Established 1962 (1962)
Location Buckingham Palace
London, SW1
United Kingdom
Public transit access London Underground National Rail Victoria
Website Queen's Gallery website

The Queen's Gallery is a public art gallery at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection (those works owned by the King or Queen "in trust for the nation" rather than privately) on a rotating basis; about 450 works are on display at any one time.

The gallery is at the west front of the Palace, on the site of a chapel bombed during the Second World War, and first opened in 1962. Over the following 37 years it received 5 million visitors, until it was closed in 1999–2002 for extension work carried out by John Simpson. On 21 May 2002, the gallery was reopened by Elizabeth II to coincide with her Golden Jubilee. The extension added the current Doric entrance portico and several new rooms, more than tripling the size of the building.[1] It is open to the public for much of the year.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace Archived 10 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine. April 2016

Coordinates: 51°29′59.287″N 0°8′32.67″W / 51.49980194°N 0.1424083°W / 51.49980194; -0.1424083


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