Queen's Gallery


The Queen's Gallery is the main public art gallery of Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection on a rotating basis. It has its own access façade and typically displays about 450 works, always including mainly paintings and drawings.

Building history

The gallery forms the most projecting, the south, wing of the Palace, its entrance/exit being to the road on that side, on the site of a chapel bombed during the Second World War. The gallery opened in 1962; in the next 37 years receiving 5 million visitors, until closure for extension, commissioned from architect John Simpson. On 21 May 2002, the gallery was reopened by Elizabeth II to coincide with her Golden Jubilee. The extension made the Doric entrance portico and new rooms, more than tripling the size. It is open to the public during the day for most of the year.

Exhibitions