Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
The Queen’s Gallery is an art gallery at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection on a rotating basis with about 450 works are on display at any one time. When not on display at the Queen’s Gallery, the masterpieces of the Royal Collection maybe spread among many historic royal residences in the United Kingdom.
The gallery is on the west side of the Palace, on the site of a chapel that was bombed during the Second World War, and it is open to the public.
The Masterpieces of the Queen’s Gallery and the Royal Collection
- “Lady at the Virginal with a Gentleman”, ‘The Music Lesson’ by Johannes Vermeer
- “Massacre of the Innocents” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- “Courtyard in Delft at Evening: a Woman Spinning” by Pieter de Hooch
- Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting” by Artemisia Gentileschi
- Masterpieces of Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
- Name: Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
- City: London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Established: 1962
- Type: Art Museum
- Locations: Buckingham Palace, London, United Kingdom
Explore London’s Museums and Heritage Sites
- The British Museum
- The National Gallery, London
- Tate Britain
- The Wallace Collection
- The Victoria and Albert Museum
- Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
- Courtauld Gallery
- Tate Modern, London
- Science Museum, London
- National Portrait Gallery, London
- Natural History Museum
- Charles Dickens Museum
- Hampton Court Palace
- Sherlock Holmes Museum
- British Library
- Imperial War Museum
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“Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”
– Queen Victoria
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