Queen's Gallery

This article is about the gallery at Buckingham Palace. For the gallery in Edinburgh, see Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh.

Queen's Gallery

File:London Queen's Gallery 2011.jpg
Established	1962
Location	Buckingham Palace, London SW1, England, United Kingdom
Website	The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace

The Queen's Gallery is a public art gallery at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection (those works owned by the King or Queen "in trust for the nation" rather than privately) on a rotating basis; about 450 works are on display at any one time.

The gallery is at the west front of the Palace, on the site of a chapel bombed during the Second World War, and first opened in 1962. Over the following 37 years it received 5 million visitors, until it was closed in 1999–2002 for extension work carried out by John Simpson. On 21 May 2002, the gallery was reopened by Elizabeth II to coincide with her Golden Jubilee. The extension added the current Doric entrance portico and several new rooms, more than tripling the size of the building. It is open to the public for much of the year.

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  An exhibition at the Queen's Gallery

See also

• List of museums in London
• Royal Collection

References

• Fisher, Mark (2004). Britain's Best Museums and Galleries. London: Penguin.

External links

• The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace on Royal Collection site