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London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will reopen in June 2023 after a three-year closure.
Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 22 Dec 2022
London’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will reopen in June 2023 after a three-year closure.
The institution closed its doors in 2020 to undergo a £35.5m (€40.2m, US$43m) renovation, the most extensive in the gallery’s 126-year history.
Dubbed ‘Inspiring People’, the redevelopment project has seen the comprehensive redisplay of the gallery’s entire collection, as well as the rename of the first floor to The Blavatnik Wing, in honour of a £10m (€11m, US$12m) endowment - the most significant donation the gallery has ever received - from the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
Additional support has come from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Art Fund, as well as donations from Mildred and Simon Palley, the Law Family Charitable Foundation, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the David and Claudia Harding Foundation, the Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, Bjorn and Inger Saven, the Ross Foundation and the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust.
“The NPG has been a source of inspiration and delight for over a century. This project will transform and reimagine the building, collection and public engagement and ensure it continues to inspire generations to come. We look forward to seeing it fully revealed in June,” said Eilish McGuinness, chief executive at The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
NPG Director, Dr Nicholas Cullinan, added: “I’m thrilled to announce the date that our new doors will open to the public, and we eagerly look forward to welcoming visitors back into our transformed gallery in June.”
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