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 27 February – 28 June 2020
The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years, David Hockney: Drawing from Life (27 February – 28 June 2020), will explore Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to now, by focussing on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close to him. 12 March – 7 June 2020
This major new exhibition will explore the extravagant world of the glamorous and stylish ‘Bright Young Things’ of the twenties and thirties, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton.
21 May - 28 June 2020
An innovative selection of the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. 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.
Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were great patrons of the arts. To commemorate the bicentenary of their births, as well as other notable figures including George Eliot and John Ruskin, discover more about some of the great writers and artists of the Victorian age.
Discover the heroic stories of the women throughout history who have fought courageously and tirelessly for equality; to assert themselves as individuals and make their voices heard.
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.
David Hockney
Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things
BP Portrait Award 2020
Highlights
Kings & Queens
Tudors
Stuarts & the Civil War
Enlightenment to Reform
The Victorians
Victoria and the Arts
Rebel Women
Contemporary Culture
Portraiture
Join enthusiastic contributors who have already identified 155 sitters.
Help us identify the sitters who visited Camille Silvy’s photographic studio during the 1860s.
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