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Art and society

Category: Course | Online | From £42.75

Tuesday, 22 April - Tuesday, 6 May 2025

3.30 - 5.30 pm BST

Join us to learn about art’s relationship to politics and society across centuries through artworks in the National Gallery

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A National Gallery birthday quiz

Members' event

Category: Talk | Online | Members | Free

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

6 - 7 pm BST

How well do you know the National Gallery?

Book now A National Gallery birthday quiz: Members' event
Painting with egg tempera

Category: Course | From £288 Fully booked

Wednesday, 7 - Wednesday, 28 May 2025

2 - 5.30 pm

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

Learn how to make your own egg tempera paintings with artist Robin-Lee Hall in this four-week painting course
Guided tour

Category: Tour | Free

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays (excluding public holidays)

3 - 4 pm

Central Hall

Experience a 60-minute taster tour of the collection
Stories of Art 1700-1800

Category: Course | Online | From £85.50

Wednesday, 30 April - Wednesday, 4 June 2025

5.30 - 7.30 pm BST

Discover vibrant, dynamic and complex 18th-century art, from the Rococo to the Enlightenment

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Home-education art session

A creative connection of art, people and ideas

Category: Creative session | Families | Free Fully booked

Thursday, 8 May 2025

10.30 am - 12.30 pm

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

Join Gallery Educator and artist Joanna Conybeare for an explore of the gallery and a creative session in the Art Studio
The art of Siena

Category: Course | Online | From £42.75

Thursday, 8 - Thursday, 22 May 2025

3.30 - 5 pm BST

Explore masterpieces of Sienese art in a short course complementing our exhibition, 'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350'

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Members' Preview Day

The Sainsbury Wing

Category: Experience | Members | Free

Friday, 9 May 2025

10 am - 9 pm

Sainsbury Wing Entrance

Be the first to see the Sainsbury Wing before it opens to the public

Book now Members' Preview Day: The Sainsbury Wing
A curatorial perspective of C C Land: The Wonder of Art

Curatorial panel discussion

Category: Talks & conversations | Members | From £15

Friday, 9 May 2025

11 am - 12.30 pm

Sainsbury Wing Theatre

Bart Cornelis, Laura Llewellyn , Christine Riding and Per Rumberg

Join our curators for an in-person panel discussion in the reopened Pigott Theatre

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A curatorial perspective of C C Land: The Wonder of Art (Livestream)

Curatorial panel discussion

Category: Talk | Online | Members | From £15

Friday, 9 May 2025

11 am - 12.30 pm BST

Bart Cornelis, Laura Llewellyn , Christine Riding and Per Rumberg

Stream this exclusive Members' event about our once-in-a-lifetime rehang

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A tour of the Sainsbury Wing

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

Tour times

1 - 2.30 pm
3.30 - 5 pm
5.45 - 7.15 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A comprehensive tour of paintings in the reopened Sainsbury Wing.
Our collection redisplayed

Rococo to Romanticism

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

1.30 - 2.15 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours
Our collection redisplayed

Towards Modernism

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

2 - 2.45 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours
Our collection redisplayed

Deceiving the eye: Dutch perspectives

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

4 - 4.45 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours
Our collection redisplayed

Radical innovation and rivalry

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

4.30 - 5.15 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours
Our collection redisplayed

Towards Modernism

Category: Tour | Members | From £20 Fully booked

Friday, 9 May 2025

5 - 5.45 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours
Our collection redisplayed

Power and piety

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Friday, 9 May 2025

7.30 - 8.15 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

Guided collection tours

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Art Road Trip

Coming home

Category: Creative session | Families | Free

Saturday, 10 May 2025

11 am - 4 pm

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

Our mobile art studio returns to the Gallery after a year on the road with a day of creative sessions for all ages
Early years art session

Category: Creative session | Families, under-5s | Free Fully booked

Monday, 12 May 2025

1.30 - 3 pm

The Roden Centre for Creative Learning

Nurturing creativity with hands-on experiences
The life and times of William Hogarth

Category: Tour | Members | From £20

Monday, 12 May 2025

Tour times

2 - 3 pm
4 - 5 pm

Sainsbury Wing Foyer

A guided tour of paintings by William Hogarth in the collection

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