Audio guide
Audio visual guide: £3
The National Portrait Gallery audio guide offers hand-held screens with interactive maps, short films and images. Specially-created videos by the Gallery curators introduce the history of Great Britain through the Collection. Over 300 individual audio entries are available offering insights about key portraits on display around the gallery - many with exclusive interviews with artists and sitters. Choose from five themed tours to lead you through the building linking together kings and queens, writers, scientists and celebrities or opt for the highlights tour if you are short on time.
Family audio visual guide also available
Family audio guide:
£6 for up to 5 audio players
£4 for two audio players (one adult and one child)
Four fun tours in English for young visitors aged 7-11 and their parents or carers. Follow four specially-recorded tours to lead you through the Gallery with amazing facts and stories about the people in the Collection, all making the most of the interactive features of our touch screen players.
Inclut des commentaires sur 70 tableaux principaux, vidéo d'introduction, temps forts de la visite, plans et compléments d'informations
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Incluye comentarios sobre 70 cuadros principales, un vídeo de introducción, un recorrido por los retratos más importantes, mapas e información adicional.
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Umfasst Kommentare zu 70 wichtigen Gemälden, ein Einführungsvideo, die Highlights-Tour, Pläne und weitere Informationen.
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Comprende commenti su 70 opere principali, video introduttivo, tour delle opere di maggiore interesse, cartine e ulteriori informazioni.
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主要絵画70作品の解説、紹介ビデオ、ハイライト・ツアー、マップ、そして詳細を含む。

Photograph by Natalia Calvocoressi, 2009 © National Portrait Gallery, London
List of portraits covered on the Audio Guide
Tudor and Elizabethan
Stuart and Civil War
Georgian and Regency
Victorian and Edwardian
20th Century
Contemporary




