# National Gallery

Museum in Westminster, London, one of On View's top museums there.

- Address: Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
- Hours: Daily 10–6 (Fri to 9) · Free
- Website: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
- Instagram: [@nationalgallery](https://www.instagram.com/nationalgallery/)
- Directions: <https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=National%20Gallery%2C%20Trafalgar%20Square%2C%20London%2C%20WC2N%205DN>
- On the map: https://onview.so/london/map/national-gallery

The collection is free; the big exhibitions are ticketed. Some rooms are closed for building work.

## Exhibitions

### Pierre-Auguste Renoir: *Renoir and Love*

Oct 3, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027 · on view

Forty Renoir paintings from the 1860s to the 1880s on friendship, couples and city life, including the Musée d'Orsay's Bal au Moulin de la Galette, lent to the UK for the first time.

Full details: [nationalgallery.org.uk](https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/renoir-and-love)

On On View: https://onview.so/london/national-gallery/renoir-and-love

### *A Conversation*

Two-person exhibition · Oct 15, 2026 – Feb 7, 2027 · coming up · The H J Hyams Room (Room 1)

Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough

Shonibare's headless sculpture 'Mr and Mrs Andrews without their Heads' (1998) is shown beside the Gainsborough portrait that inspired it, in the year of Gainsborough's 300th anniversary.

Full details: [nationalgallery.org.uk](https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/yinka-shonibare-and-thomas-gainsborough-a-conversation)

On On View: https://onview.so/london/national-gallery/a-conversation

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On View's listing, as of Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Every gallery and museum in London: https://onview.so/london.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt
