Digital guide
Download our free digital guide on Bloomberg Connects to enhance your visit
Please remember to bring your own headphones on your visit in order to use the audio content.
Hear from Nicholas Cullinan OBE, the Gallery’s Director, and find interviews with both artists and sitters – including Malala Yousafzai and Michael Armitage.
For visitors with visual impairments, audio-descriptions of selected Collection works are available on the digital guide. Audio-described versions of selected in-gallery films are available on our website and can be accessed via QR codes in the galleries.
You can download the Bloomberg Connects App on your phone's App store and Google Play, either before your visit or via the Gallery's free Wi-Fi.
Please remember to bring your own headphones on your visit in order to use the audio content.
Meet the portraits
Explore the famous faces and much-loved works on display through our Meet the portraits audio tour (running time 60 minutes).
Available in:
- English (with captions)
- French
- Spanish
- German
- Italian
- British Sign Language
An audio-described version of the tour is available, both on the digital guide and via raised button players and a tactile map available at the Information Desk, Floor 0.
Changemakers and campaigners
Hear stories including those of suffragette Dame Christabel Pankhurst, abolitionist Olaudah Equiano and environmental campaigner Sir David Attenborough in this 30 minute tour of activists in the NPG's Collection.
Art historian, writer, and founder of @ablackhistoryofart Alayo Akinkugbe takes you through works from the 18th century to the present day, with members of the NPG's Youth Forum also sharing the individuals in the Collection who have inspired them.
Self-portraits of women
In this audio tour, immerse yourself in the world of women artists and their self-portraits. This tour will take you across our Collection, looking at the different ways women artists have used self-portraiture, from Mary Beale’s expression of her role as a successful artist in the seventeenth century to Tracey Emin’s recent meditation on life and death.
Join journalist and author of the Forgotten Women series, Zing Tsjeng, as she guides you through this set of unique stories, with commentary from one of the NPG's very own curators, Constantia Nicolaides.
Exclusive exhibition content
Download the app to explore exclusive exhibition content, while at the exhibition or from home.
For The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, unlock reflections from artists Thomas J Price, Amy Sherald, Claudette Johnson and Jordan Casteel, as well as the chance to hear from exhibition curator Ekow Eshun.
Catch up on our previous exhibitions:
- Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 - hear from photographers on their artworks and find out more about the exhibition from curator Sabina Jaskot-Gill.
- David Hockney: Drawing from Life - hear from David Hockney, curator Sarah Howgate, Celia Birtwell and Maurice Payne.
- Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm - hear from Paul McCartney, Mary McCartney, and curators Rose Broadley and Sarah Brown.
- Yevonde: Life and Colour - hear from curator Clare Freestone, historian Lucinda Gosling and author Natalie Haynes, and explore previously unseen images from Yevonde's colour archive.
About
The Bloomberg Connects app is a free digital guide to cultural organisations around the world that makes it easy to access and engage with arts and culture from mobile devices, anytime, anywhere. The app offers information about current exhibitions at a portfolio of over 150 participating cultural partners through dynamic content tailored to each organisation. Participating collections currently include botanical gardens, performance venues, outdoor sculpture parks, and world-class museums. Features include expert commentary, video highlights, pinch-and-zoom capability and exhibition maps. The app can be downloaded for free via Google Play or the App Store.