Audio trails for families

The following audio trails are available from the Audio Guide desks for £3.50:

Teach your grown ups about art

Roll up, roll up! Come and see circus performers, mad scientists, and the world's ugliest old woman...

In this tour, children get to turn the tables on the grown-ups. Grown-ups take off their headphones, so children can hear amazing secrets, which they then get the chance to reveal.

The tour is split into four sections by time period. Take all four parts of the tour at once, or come back later and try another section. (The whole tour lasts at least one hour.)

Come to the audio desks to collect your map and audio guides. And that's all the grown-ups need to know!

After the tour, try out a worksheet with quizzes, jokes and activities. Then children have the chance to submit a picture to the mini masterpiece gallery.

Visit the mini masterpiece gallery.

Tell me a picture

There's something funny going on in Trafalgar Square: two secret agents have been sent to the National Gallery to investigate.

In this audio trail, children and adults follow in the agents footsteps as they search for explanations to the mysteries they meet. The truth is there, somewhere...

A right royal tour

Join journalist Tania Fawningly-Grovel and press photographer Jimmy Snoop in their hunt for kings and queens at the National Gallery.

In this audio trail hear about a Queen who ruled for nine days, find out about an elusive emperor executed by firing squad, and learn what kings got up to on days out with friends.