Permanent Collections
Below is a list of London's principal permanent art collections, with a brief summary of their strengths. British Museum Great Russell St, WC1 tel 020/7636 1555; www.british-museum.ac.uk. Tube: Russell Square or Tottenham Court Road. The BM owns a stupendous collection of drawings and prints, a small sample of which is always on show in room 90; it also stages excellent one-off exhibitions, sometimes with free entry. Courtauld Institute Somerset House, Strand, WC2 tel 020/7848 2526; www.courtauld.ac.uk. Tube: Covent Garden or Temple (Mon-Sat only). Excellent collection of Impressionists and post-Impressionists, with several masterpieces by Manet, Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Dulwich Picture Gallery College Rd, SE21 tel 020/8693 5254; www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk. West Dulwich train station from Victoria. London's oldest public art gallery has recently been refurbished, and houses a small but high-quality selection of work ranging from Poussin and Gainsborough to Rembrandt. Estorick Collection 39a Canonbury Square, N1 tel 020/7704 9522; www.estorickcollection.com. Tube: Highbury & Islington. Georgian mansion with a small but interesting collection of twentieth-century Italian art, including Modigliani, di Chirico and the Futurists. Guildhall Art Gallery Gresham St, EC2. tel 020/7332 1632; www.cityoflondon.gov.uk. Tube: Bank or St Paul's. New purpose-built gallery housing the Corporation of London's collection, which contains one or two exceptional Pre-Raphaelite works by the likes of Rossetti and Holman Hunt. Iveagh Bequest Kenwood House, Hampstead Lane, NW3 tel 020/8348 1286. Bus #210 from Archway Tube:, or walk from Hampstead or Archway tube station. Stately home overlooking Hampstead Heath, that's best known for its pictures by Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Vermeer. Free entry. Leighton House 12 Holland Park Rd, W14 tel 020/7602 3316. Tube: High Street Kensington. The house itself is a work of art, but it also contains several works by Lord Leighton himself and his Pre-Raphaelite chums. Lothbury 41 Lothbury, EC2 tel 020/7762 1642. Bank. Changing exhibitions from NatWest bank's vast art collection, which is especially strong on twentieth-century British art. Free entry. National Gallery Trafalgar Square, WC2 tel 020/7306 0055; www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Tube: Charing Cross or Leicester Square. The country's premier collection; it's difficult to think of a major artist born between 1300 and 1850 whose work isn't on show here. National Portrait Gallery 2 St Martin's Place, WC2 tel 020/7306 0055; www.npg.org.uk. Tube: Leicester Square or Charing Cross. Interesting faces, but only a few works of art of a quality to match those on display in the neighbouring National Gallery, despite the NPGs snazzy redevelopment. Tate Britain Millbank, SW1 tel 020/7887 8000; www.tate.org.uk. Tube: Pimlico. The old Tate is now devoted to British art from the sixteenth century onwards (the British tag is fairly loosely applied), with several galleries permanently given over to Turner. Tate Modern Bankside, SE1 tel 020/7887 8000; www.tate.org.uk. Tube: Southwark. Housed in a spectacularly converted power station on the South Bank, the new Tate is the largest modern-art gallery in the world, and displays the cream of the international modern art collection. Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Rd, SW7 tel 020/7942 2000; www.vam.ac.uk. Tube: South Kensington. The city's principal applied arts museum boasts a scattering of European painting and sculpture, a fine collection of English statuary, two remarkable rooms of casts, Raphael's famous tapestry cartoons, works by Constable, Turner and Rodin, and a photography gallery. Wallace Collection Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1 tel 020/7935 0687; www.wallace-collection.org.uk. Tube: Bond Street. A country mansion just off Oxford Street, with a small, eclectic collection, including fine paintings by Rembrandt, Velazquez, Hals, Gainsborough and Delacroix. William Morris Gallery Forest Rd, E17 tel 020/8527 3782; www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg. Tube: Walthamstow Central. Covers every aspect of Morris & Co's work, and there's a small gallery of Pre-Raphaelite work by Morris and his colleagues' upstairs
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