When is the National Gallery's National Treasures exhibition?
The National Treasures exhibition will take place from Friday 10 May to Sunday 1 September 2024.
What to expect from National Treasures
As part of the programme of events to celebrate the National Gallery’s bicentenary, 12 of the nation’s most iconic and well-loved paintings from the collection are being lent to 12 venues across the UK.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
English or French, The Wilton Diptych, about 1395-9 © The National Gallery, London
The Wilton Diptych will be in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in the England gallery, alongside the museum’s Cloth of Gold, the funeral pall of Henry VII. A short film will introduce the diptych, and a specially produced audio guide will explore its iconography in more depth and how the diptych relates to the artefacts around it. The diptych will also feature in the Family Festival of Art with activities planned in the England Gallery.
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
John Constable, 1776-1837, The Hay Wain, 1821 © The National Gallery, London
Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821) will be the focus of an exhibition of landscapes from 17th-century Dutch to abstraction and conceptual art at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. The show aims to show how art is responding to the climate crisis, as well as class, LGBTQIA identity, colonialism and migration.
Find out more about National Treasures and further venues around the UK.
How do I get to National Treasures exhibitions?
For Constable’s The Hay Wain at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, travel by train to Bristol Temple Meads.
For the Wilton Diptych at the Ashmolean Museum, travel by train to Oxford.