We offer a wider range of tours to meet your group’s requirements. Whether your group has a special area of interest, wishes to explore an exhibition or take a highlights tour of the Collection.
Create your own Bespoke and Specialist Tours on a subject close to your heart
Discover more about our exhibitions and gain a deeper insight with an Exhibition Lecture to complement your visit to the exhibition
Take a tour of the Collection on a range of subjects including our popular highlights tour
To discuss your groups interest and requirements review our How to book section.
For information on school group visits please see our schools and colleges section.
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Bespoke and Specialist Tours Explore the diversity of the Gallery’s Collection and our specialist display programme through a tailored tour and enjoy an in-depth look at your group’s specific interest or one of our changing displays. Exhibition Lectures 14 June - 23 September, 2018
An innovative selection of the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. 28 June – 21 October, 2018
This landmark exhibition, curated by Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, spanning several generations of artists across all media. 18 October 2018 – 27 January, 2019
A unique opportunity to see new works by some of the most exciting contemporary portrait photographers. 22 November 2018 - 3 February 2019
Featuring over fifty works from public and private collections across the world, Gainsborough’s Family Album will provide a unique insight into the private life and motivations of Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), one of Britain’s greatest artists. Collection Tours
Whether your group is visiting the Gallery for the first time or has an interest in British history, learn more about the Gallery and the Collection through a selection of portraits from the 1,000 on display.
A fascinating tour covering six centuries of British royalty beginning with King Henry VII and moving through some of the most powerful people who helped to shape the nation.
From Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, learn how some of the most powerful and talented people of sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain shaped the nation.
Discover this most turbulent time in British history, which saw plots, revolution, the execution of a King and years of Civil War, the plague and the Great Fire of London.
Journey back to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a golden age of science, music, theatre and thought, but also a time of reform and the birth of modern democracy.
Discover more about the people who made Britain the world’s first industrialised commercial power and the empire that sustained it.
In the centenary year of the Representation of the People Act, be inspired the main protagonists of the women's movement who campaigned for suffrage and by the trailblazing women who came before them.
Enjoy a tour of familiar faces created in a wide range of media, investigating issues of diversity, achievement and celebrity in today’s society.
Investigate portraiture, identity and representation as you explore the Gallery’s finest portraits and self-portraits, examining artistic technique.
Bespoke and Specialist Tours
BP Portrait Award 2018
Michael Jackson: On the Wall
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2018
Gainsborough’s Family Album
Highlights
Kings & Queens
Tudors
Stuarts & the Civil War
Enlightenment to Reform
The Victorians
Rebel Women
Contemporary Culture
Portraiture
