National Portrait Gallery - London - TravBuddy
National Portrait Gallery
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Contact & Location Details [edit]
- St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square
- London, United Kingdom
- 020 7312 2463
- www.npg.co.uk
- Hours: Open daily 10am - 6pm
- Directions: By underground The nearest underground stations to the Gallery are: Charing Cross 230 metres, Leicester Square 195 metres, and Embankment 490 metres. Please note these stations do not have a lift.
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National Portrait Gallery Reviews
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A free fantastic favorite! Mar 26, 2008
I have visited this gallery almost every day on every trip I have made to London since 1994. The gallery is all portraits in every media (oil paintings, sculpture, watercolors, photography), mainly British royalty, statespeople and celebrities from the early 1400s on.
The gallery is free, though some exhibits may cost a fee. I recently saw photos from Vanity Fair, which includes Demi Moore's famous pregnancy photo from 1990 and Kate Winslet's underwater homage to her Titanic character (1997). The best exhibit is almost always tucked away in the bottom, in a small area near the bookshop and cafe. This month, it is called 'Closing Up Shop' and showed the proprietors of various small businesses in different towns in England standing outside businesses they have had for decades (not all remain today.) And it has the best shop --- I got some cool postcards of Kate Moss and Paul Mccartney there for only 60 pence each! |
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