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National Gallery
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art museum in London, England, UK
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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Research organization · ROR
- 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
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- City of Westminster
- Location
- Trafalgar Square
- Official website
- www.nationalgallery.org.uk
- 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
- topic's main category
- Category:National Gallery, London
- 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
- online catalog URL
- www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/search-the-collection
- architect
- William Wilkins
- 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
- P12749
- Hussain Shah
- P13249
- National Gallery
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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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