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

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.^[1] It is open to the public for much of the year.

An exhibition at the Queen's Gallery

References

↑ The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. royal.gov.uk

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

External links

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

Museums and galleries in London

List of museums in London

National museums

Imperial War Museums	Churchill War Rooms HMS Belfast Imperial War Museum London

Royal Museums Greenwich	Cutty Sark National Maritime Museum Queen's House Royal Observatory

Tate	Tate Britain Tate Modern

Victoria and Albert Museum	V&A Museum of Childhood

Designated collections

Museum of London	Museum of London Docklands

Royal Collection Trust

Historic Royal Palaces

National Trust

English Heritage

The London Museums of
Health & Medicine (selected)

Other

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Commons

London landmarks

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Royal buildings

Partly occupied by Royal Family	Buckingham Palace Clarence House Kensington Palace St James's Palace

Unoccupied	Banqueting House Hampton Court Palace Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace The Queen's Gallery Kew Palace

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Squares and
public spaces

Streets

Buildings and structures under construction shown in italics

Royal Collection

Administration

Trustees	Chairman HRH The Prince of Wales Deputy Chairman William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch Dame Rosalind Savill Peter Troughton Sir Christopher Geidt Sir Alan Reid

Management	Director of the Royal Collection Jonathan Marsden Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Desmond Shawe-Taylor Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art Jonathan Marsden Mike Stevens Nuala McGourty Frances Dunkels Kerry François Jemima Rellie

Collection

Paintings

Caravaggio, A Boy Peeling Fruit (1593)
Anthony van Dyck, Cupid and Psyche (1639–40)
Benjamin West, Edward III Crossing the Somme (1788)
Canaletto, Entrance to the Grand Canal, Looking East (1744)
Godfrey Kneller, Hampton Court Beauties (c. 1675)
Raphael, St Paul Preaching in Athens (1515)
Johann Zoffany, The Tribuna of the Uffizi, (1772–78)
Andrea Mantegna, The Triumphs of Caesar, IX, (1484–92)
Peter Lely, Windsor Beauties (c. 1660)

Decorative arts

Fabergé, Basket of Wild Flowers Egg (1901)
Fabergé, Colonnade Egg (1910)
Fabergé, Mosaic Egg (1914)
Edwin Lutyens, Queen Mary's Dolls' House (c. 1924)

State coaches

Jewellery

Crown Jewels	Crown of Mary of Modena (1685) Crown of Queen Elizabeth (1937) Imperial State Crown (1937) Sceptre with the Cross (1661) Sceptre with the Dove (1661) Sovereign's Orb (1661) St Edward's Crown (1661)

Other	Crown of Queen Mary (1911) Imperial Crown of India (1911)

Textiles

The Story of Abraham series (1540–43)
Wedding dress of Queen Victoria (1840)
Wedding dress of Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1863)

Locations

Coordinates: 51°29′59.287″N 0°8′32.67″W / 51.49980194°N 0.1424083°W / 51.49980194; -0.1424083

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Queen's Gallery

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