Noise disruption in galleries and restaurant
We are currently experiencing noise disruption in the galleries and the restaurant due to the refurbishment works. The disruption is confined to 10am – 12.15pm and 2.15pm – 5pm. We expect this to...
View ArticleThe Dame Rosalind Savill Endowment for 18th-Century French Decorative Arts
Dame Rosalind Savill, Director of the Wallace Collection since 1992, retired in October 2011. Dame Rosalind is especially passionate about the French decorative arts, one of the most...
View ArticleDame Rosalind Savill Retires as Director
Dame Rosalind Savill retires as Director of the Wallace Collection, after 37 years at the museum. She joined the Wallace Collection from the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974 and published her seminal...
View ArticleThe Wallace Collection Welcomes its New Director
The Wallace Collection is delighted to welcome its new Director Dr Christoph Vogtherr, who succeeds Dame Rosalind Savill. Dr Christoph Martin Vogtherr is a specialist scholar/curator in...
View ArticleChristmas Opening Times
The Wallace Collection will be closed for Christmas on the 24, 25 and 26 December and will re-open again on Tuesday 27 December at 10am. We wish all our visitors … Read More
View ArticleRefugee Tour Guides Present Wallace Collection Hidden Treasures
Since February 2011, a remarkable group of volunteer Refugee Tour Guides from a range of African countries have embarked on an ambitious venture with the Wallace Collection, to learn about the museum’s...
View ArticleThe Wallace Collection welcomes seven new Trustees to the Board
January 2013 The Prime Minister has appointed Kate de Rothschild Agius, Sir Hugh Roberts, GCVO, FSA, Dr Ashok Roy and Timothy Schroder as Trustees of the Wallace Collection for five years, and...
View ArticleOur new StickyWorld!
We are always looking for fresh and interesting ways to use new technologies to connect with our visitors. For the last 8 months we have been working with the team at StickyWorld to capture our Great...
View ArticleDiscover Paris at the Wallace Collection and the Institut Français
If you thought you had to travel to France to see Paris, think again… This summer the Wallace Collection and the Institut Français are collaborating to bring you a taste of Paris right here in London....
View ArticleBeautiful Thing: Sèvres Porcelain on BBC4
On Tuesday 18 June, at 9pm BBC4 will be airing a very special documentary with some very special objects from the Wallace Collection. Beautiful Thing: A Passion for Porcelain sees former Wallace...
View ArticleArt Cavaliers Informal Evening Tours
The Wallace Collection’s popular Art Cavaliers evening classes are returning this year for a remarkable eighth year running. Frans Hals, ‘The Laughing Cavalier’, 1624. Held in our beautiful galleries...
View ArticleThe Grand Tour: An Evening at the Wallace Collection
Friday 4 October, 6.30 – 9.00pm. Tickets £20 (which includes all activities + a glass of wine). Francesco Guardi, ‘Venice: the Grand Canal with the Riva del Vin and the Rialto Bridge’, Italy, c. 1770....
View ArticleSecrets of the Wallace…Revealed!
Discover the Collection’s secrets for yourself with the launch of an exciting new video podcast series ‘Secrets of the Wallace,’ made by young people especially for you! Over the next eight weeks...
View ArticleThe Ten Year Plan
The Wallace Collection is a thriving National Museum with a wide range of activities and a high research profile attracting about 400,000 visitors a year. With the major refurbishment of the Great...
View ArticleSky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Heats, 26 – 28 May – The Wallace...
The Wallace Collection is very happy to announce that we will be holding the London heats for the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year! As home to some of the greatest portraits in the world, the...
View ArticleArt Everywhere UK
Art Everwhere UK is back this summer! This summer Art Everywhere, the outdoor art exhibition, returns for a 6 week long celebration of the best of British art. Last year the charitable project hit the...
View ArticleThe Great Gallery reopens 19 September
The Great Gallery is to reopen on 19 September following a two-year refurbishment, with a new hang and reconfigured ceiling that will see the gallery filled with natural light The Great Gallery, one of...
View ArticleBook now: First Friday Lates
Culturally Curious? Don’t wait – check out First Friday Lates For the first time the Wallace Collection will host a free, regular programme of after-hours events on the First Friday of the Month. Meet...
View ArticleTime-Lapse Video of the Great Gallery re-hang
The Great Gallery, one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the world, re-opened on 19 September following its two-year refurbishment… and we teamed up with Site-Eye to capture the...
View ArticleOur new StickyWorld!
We are always looking for fresh and interesting ways to use new technologies to connect with our visitors. For the last 8 months we have been working with the team at StickyWorld to capture our Great...
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