Events and exhibitions calendar
Find out what's on in our current and upcoming exhibitions, displays, events, programmes, workshops and more.
Exhibitions (6)
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure
22 February - 19 May 2024
Floor 0
£16.00 / £18.00 with donation
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
21 March - 16 June 2024
Floor 2
£8.50 / £9.50 with donation
Six Lives
20 June - 8 September 2024
£21 / £23.50 with donation
Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024
11 July - 27 October 2024
Free to visit
Francis Bacon Portraits
10 October 2024 - 19 January 2025
Tickets not yet on sale
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
14 November 2024 - 16 February 2025
Tickets not yet on sale
Events (46)
Cancelled: Weekend workshop: creating realistic portraits using ballpoint pen
20 - 21 April 2024, 11.00-17.00
The Art Studio
Cancelled
Sensory tour: the Collection
Various dates, next at Mon, 22 April 2024, 12.00-12.45
In Gallery room TBC
Free (booking required)
Descriptive tour: the Collection
Various dates, next at Tue, 23 April 2024, 14.30-16.00
In Gallery
Free (booking required)
Women’s representation and the female gaze
Thu, 25 April 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Evening life drawing
Fri, 26 April 2024, 18.00-19.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£20 (£16 Members / concessions)
BSL tour: the Collection
Various dates, next at Fri, 26 April 2024, 19.30-20.30
In Gallery (room TBC)
Free (booking required)
Drop-in drawing
Fri, 3 May 2024, 18.00-20.00
In Gallery
Free
Members’ Late - The Time is Always Now and Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron
Tue, 7 May 2024, 18.30-20.30
Exhibition spaces
Lunchtime Lecture - Sarah Siddons: the first celebrity actress
Thu, 9 May 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Members event: Westminster tour
Fri, 10 May 2024, 17.30-19.00
Meet at Ross Place
£25 (Members only)
Screening of 'Super Sam' and In Conversation with director Sandi Hudson-Francis
Fri, 10 May 2024, 18.00-20.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Weekend workshop: Introduction to figurative painting
11 - 12 May 2024, 11.00-17.00
The Art Studio
£250 (£200 Members / concessions)
Film screening: The Watermelon Woman
Sat, 11 May 2024, 14.00-16.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free (booking required)
‘The Time is Always Now’ – meet the makers
13 - 19 May 2024
National Portrait Gallery Shop
Free
Drop-in drawing
Fri, 17 May 2024, 18.00-20.00
In Gallery
Free
Photo London x National Portrait Gallery: photographer in conversation
Fri, 17 May 2024, 19.00-20.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Ticket details to be announced
‘Photography is a place for the viewer to dream in’: What can photography do?
Thu, 23 May 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Family Day: Fun with Faces
Tue, 28 May 2024, 11.00-16.00
Learning Centre and across the Gallery
Free
Going Pro
29 - 31 May 2024, 10.30-16.00
Learning Centre
Free
Drop-in drawing
Fri, 7 June 2024, 18.00-20.00
In Gallery
Free
Chevalier D’Eon: life and Queer identity
Fri, 7 June 2024, 19.00-20.00
Floor 3, Room 18
Free
Members event: analogue photography workshop
Sat, 8 June 2024, 11.00-17.00
The Law Photography Studio
£130 (Members only)
The Lives of Tudor Women
Thu, 20 June 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Drop-in drawing
Fri, 21 June 2024, 18.00-20.00
In Gallery
Free
Curator’s introduction to Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens
Fri, 21 June 2024, 19.00-20.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Onsite £15 (£12 Members / concessions)
Game of Queens: the women who made 16th-century Europe
Thu, 27 June 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Evening life drawing
Fri, 28 June 2024, 18.00-20.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£20 (£16 Members / concessions)
Descriptive tour: Six Lives
Fri, 5 July 2024, 18.00-19.30
In Gallery (room TBC) and Learning Centre
Free (booking required)
Drop-in drawing
Fri, 5 July 2024, 18.00-20.00
In Gallery
Free
SIX the Musical interpreted performance and Six Lives BSL tour
Sat, 6 July 2024, 16.00-19.00
BSL tour: 18.00-19.00
Meet in the Gallery's Entrance Hall
Waiting Game: the untold story of the women who served the Tudor queens
Thu, 11 July 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Members event: evening painting class
Fri, 12 July 2024, 18.00-20.00
The Art Studio
£80 (Members only)
Panel discussion - Page, stage and screen: dramatising Six Lives
Fri, 12 July 2024, 19.00-20.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£15 (£12 Members / concessions)
Drop-in drawing
Fri, 19 July 2024, 18.00-20.00
In Gallery
Free
Marguerite de Navarre: the mirror of a Renaissance queen
Thu, 25 July 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the marriage that rocked Europe
Thu, 5 September 2024, 13.00-14.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£10 (£8 Members / concessions)
Suzannah Lipscomb in conversation
Fri, 6 September 2024, 19.00-20.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£15 (£12 Members / concessions)
Six Lives study day: the material culture of the Tudor Court
Sat, 7 September 2024, 11.00-17.00
The Ondaatje Wing Theatre
£40 (£32 Members / concessions)
Displays (2)
Colin Davidson: Silent Testimony
22 April 2024 - 23 February 2025
Room 14, Floor 3
Free
People Powered: stories from film and screen
29 April - 30 June 2024
Studio Gallery, Floor -2
Free
National and International Programme (0)
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