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Also known as National Gallery, London, The National Gallery, The National Gallery, London, National Gallery (Great Britain)

art museum in London, England, UK

AI overview

The National Gallery is an art museum located in London, England that houses an important collection of paintings. It matters because it preserves and displays significant artworks and makes them accessible to the public for education and cultural enrichment.

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Type
Archive
Founded
1824
Location
London, United Kingdom
Also known as
National Gallery, National Gallery, London
Status
Active

GRID grid.426481.d · ISNI 0000 0001 2342 2001

Wikidata facts

Instance of
museum
Image
Galería Nacional, Londres, Inglaterra, 2014-08-07, DD 036.JPG
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ground level 360 degree view URL
goo.gl/maps/fWmF2a8xhh2fuyYc6
native label
National Gallery
historic county
Middlesex
phone number
+44 20 7747 2885
inception
1824-01-01
Commons category
National Gallery, London
director / manager
Gabriele Finaldi
visitors per year
708924
Commons Institution page
National Gallery, London
architectural style
Georgian architecture
Commons gallery
National Gallery, London
located on street
Trafalgar Square
date of official opening
1824-00-00
OS grid reference
TQ2996180544
social media followers
334000
street address
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
postal code
WC2N 5DN
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
associated electoral district
Cities of London and Westminster
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Encyclopedic overview

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current director of the National Gallery is Gabriele Finaldi.

The National Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection is held in trust by the charity on behalf of the British public, and entry to the main collection is free of charge.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “National Gallery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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