London's National Portrait Gallery to close three years for renovation

The National Portrait Gallery in London has announced that it will close to the public for three years, from June 2020 to the summer of 2023, due to major renovations. That work was needed had been known for some time, but surprisingly the news of the long closure came only yesterday.

During this three-year period, more than a thousand works will be moved into storage, while about three hundred will go on tour across the country.

The £35.5 million renovation will see the creation of a new visitor entrance and outdoor courtyard, an education center, and a new museum space in the building’s east wing, now used for offices. Also planned is a rearrangement of the collection, which starts from the Tudor era and goes up to the present day.

During the closure of the famous museum venue, Hans Holbein the Younger’s cartoon depicting Henry VIII will be transferred to the nearby National Gallery, where it will be placed for the first time next to Holbein’s Ambassadors; the National Maritime Museum, on the other hand, will welcome more than one hundred portraits of royals for the exhibition Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.

The National Portrait Gallery said the loans will be a way to “share its unique collection of portraits with the nation”; however, the closure will cause staff changes and inevitable job losses.

Source: Telegraph

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London's National Portrait Gallery to close three years for renovation

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