Give a Gift Membership to the National Gallery

Treat the art lover in your life to a Gift Membership with the National Gallery!

The National Gallery is on Trafalgar Square in London. It is home to the national collection of paintings from the 13th to 19th centuries in the Western Tradition, and the paintings are on show 361 days a year, free of charge

The Gallery aims to care for the collection, to enhance it for future generations, and to study it. It seeks to be a resource on art, and to inpsire. Amongst some of the works, you'll find names such as Vermeer, Cezanne, Monet, Seurat, Gainsborough, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Van Eyck, Michelangelo, Constable, Raphael, Canatello, da Vinci, Stubbs - to name a few! There are over 2,600 paintings and so it's one of those galleries where it's wonderful to keep coming back. Search the collection here and view the Must Sees here.

The Highlights from the Collection include Vermeer's "A Young Woman standing at a Virginal", an incredible Equestrian Portrait of Charles I by van Dyck, Sansom and Delilah by Rubens, Summer's Day by Morisot, a Self Portrait at the age of 34 by Rembrandt, Sunflowers by Van Gogh, The Fighting Tremeraire by Turner, The Hay Wain by Constable, Whistlejacket by Stubbs, and many more. Take a look here.

Members enjoy lots of benefits:

Unlimited free entry to all the exhibitions
Priority booking for events and exhibitions
A bespoke programme of online events
Invitations to preview days
10% discount in the shops and cafes
On-demand films and exhibition tours
Use of the cloakroom for free
Flexibility to reschedule exhibition tickets

Gift Membership vouchers bought through the National Gallery's shop can either go straight to the recipient or you can send it to yourself to add a personalised touch. Vouchers are valid for six months from the purchase date, and recipients activate it and then receive their Membership card and welcome pack.

The Individual Gift Membership is £75.00 whilst the Member Plus Guest Gift Membership is £119.00. Find out more about both memberships and buy them here.

Imaging giving them access to lots of art!

What's more, 2024 is the National Gallery’s Bicentenary - NG200 - celebrating 200 years of bringing people and paintings together. So it's a great time to join or give a gift membership as there will be lots happening throughout the year.

For instance, just some of the things which will be happening are:

12 simultaneous exhibitions at 12 museums and galleries across the 12 regions of the four nations of the UK - over half the population will be within an hour's journey of a National Gallery masterpiece!
There'll be a travelling art studio on tour, bringing 200 National Gallery workshops and learning activities to different communities and people, many of whom would otherwise not have any access
There'll be an exhibition of VanGogh's most important and well-loved works, as well as paintings from private collections never seen in public before. It's the first major Van Gogh show in the UK since 2010.
There'll be a display of the entire National Gallery Collection
and a good deal more besides - you can find out all about NG200 here.

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
from 14 September 2024 – 19 January 2025

"Be blown away by Van Gogh’s most spectacular paintings in our once-in-a-century exhibition."
National Gallery website

The National Gallery is bringing you some of the most loved of Van Gogh’s paintings from across the globe.
Some of these have rarely been seen in public. They will be paired together with his extraordinary drawings.
Find out more here

Don't forget that the National Gallery has a superb online shop, too, where you can buy all sorts of gifts (including a gift membership) for the art lover in your life! From cards (including Christmas cards) and diaries, to books, prints and posters, accessories (including scarves, bags, totes and jewellery) and stationery, there are also exhibition prints. Visit the National Gallery's online shop here.

This is The National Gallery Highlights Pocket Tote Bag
The dimensions are 41 x 33 cm, 20 cm handles
and it's made of 100% recycled cotton. It's handwash only.
for £15.00

LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITION The National Gallery: Masterpieces of Painting
£200.00.

The limited edition of 500 copies of The National Gallery: Masterpieces of Painting has been published to celebrate the Gallery's Bicentenary in 2024. It would be a very special gift, as its offered in a bespoke presentation box, and each copy includesOffered in a bespoke presentation box handmade by specialist manufacturers in the UK, each copy includes a book plate individually numbered and signed by Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, who has also written a special foreword to commemorate the occasion. The edition is showcasing over 275 of the collection's most treasured pictures. Find out more