National Gallery

国家美术馆（National Gallery）坐落于特拉法加广场，收藏着跨越13至19世纪的大量西欧绘画作品。游客可以在塞恩斯伯里翼馆（Sainsbury Wing）和主馆内按年代顺序欣赏莱昂纳多·达·芬奇、文森特·梵高和伦勃朗等艺术大师的杰作。美术馆的永久馆藏免费开放，馆内亮点包括梵高的《向日葵》和波提切利的《维纳斯与马尔斯》。语音导览和每日免费导览团，帮助游客在浩瀚的展厅中轻松游览，无论是艺术爱好者还是普通游客都能尽兴而归。

不容错过

• 第43展厅内梵高1888年创作的《向日葵》
• 第66展厅内达芬奇的《岩间圣母》
• 塞恩斯伯里翼馆内的文艺复兴杰作

门票与旅行团

游览National Gallery的方式

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行前须知

• Entry to the main collection is free of charge.
• The collection contains more than 2,300 paintings from the mid-thirteenth century to 1900.
• The museum grew through many extensions; only the Trafalgar Square façade remains essentially unchanged from Wilkins's 1838 building.
• Private donations account for about two-thirds of the collection, which did not originate as a nationalized royal collection.

历史一瞥

Calls for a British national gallery intensified after important collections were sold abroad in the late eighteenth century. Artists argued that access to leading European paintings was essential for a British school of art. The decisive opportunity came when Angerstein's thirty-eight paintings went on sale. Parliament approved their purchase for £57,000, encouraged by collector George Beaumont's offer of sixteen more works if the government bought Angerstein's group and found a suitable building. The National Gallery opened in 1824 in Angerstein's Pall Mall townhouse. The Pall Mall gallery was overcrowded and hot. Subsidence forced a brief move from No. 100 to No. 105 before Wilkins's Trafalgar Square building opened in 1838. Its position between the wealthy West End and poorer districts to the east was defended as essential to access across social classes. Eastlake became the first director and traveled across Europe to acquire neglected early Italian and Northern Renaissance works. Private gifts remained crucial, including the Turner Bequest, though lack of space eventually contributed to the creation of the Tate Gallery for British art in 1897. During the Second World War, the paintings were evacuated to Wales. Winston Churchill rejected moving them to Canada, and the collection was stored in a slate quarry at Manod. The central London building was repeatedly extended, including major later projects such as the Sainsbury Wing, while conservation and cleaning policies generated recurring public debate.