London’s National Portrait Gallery Is Closing for Three Years

The good news is that the museum’s 215,000 works won’t be totally sealed off to the public during the remodeling. Key portraits from the collection will travel around the UK and allow people all throughout the country to have access to these works. Some of the receiving institutions include:

• The National Gallery, London
• The National Maritime Museum, London
• The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
• The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
• The York Art Gallery and the Yorkshire Museum, York
• The Holburne Museum, Bath
• National Museums Liverpool
• The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
• Wolverhampton Art Gallery
• Derby Museum & Art Gallery
• Aston Hall, Birmingham

And if you want to see beautiful portraits from the comfort of your own home, check out the National Portrait Gallery’s entire collection on its website.