National Portrait Gallery Reviews

Excellent exhibition, worth the entry fee, then there are also free exhibitions to see over several floors. Friendly helpful staff

An excellent place to visit. It's a fantastic way to 'meet' everyone who was anyone from the past five hundred years of English history. The audio tour is excellent, in fact it's so detailed I'd say it's best to split a visit over two days if you want to learn about every portrait. Entry is free and the audio guide is a few pounds only. Overall well worth a visit.

An amazing amount of history to indulge in.
At no cost.

This was a great place to visit and walk around. Well laid out and you could spend a whole day there walking around and enjoying the art. Highly recommend.

Well worth a visit a lot to see, would take a day or more to see everything.

To do. Absolutely. And get lost in the wealth of collections

Excellent gallery, definitely worth planning a visit. Interesting place

If you like portraits you can not miss this spectacular museum.

Came to the Micheal Jackson Exhibition. Was brilliant. Had lunch in the Portrait Gallery Restaurant on floor 3 afterwards. I wasn't disappointed. The food was lovely, i ordered Salmon as a starter and Shepherds Pie as main. They came as a meal deal together. The views of London are simply stunning! This museum has around 195,000 portraits so would take hours to see them all if not days but is worth a visit just to see a handful and the beautiful rooms that house the paintings are equally stunning. The shop is great too. They sell posters and prints of your favourite paintings.

Regardless of whatever exhibition is going on in The National Portrait Gallery. It's a great place to visit when you are nearby. A lot of rooms to walk into for free, and the art on display is simply beautiful.

The National Portrait Gallery is quite convenient to Charging Cross railway station, where I often find myself when visiting London. The paintings (and busts) are well captioned and it is interesting to encounter well known figures from British history. The Tudors and the Stuarts are on the top floor.

Certainly worth visiting if you are in the area. Plenty of portraits of people that were crucial to British history, including the current royal family portraits. The permanent collection covers a few floors, and it's difficult to manage it in one go but it is worth coming back a few times.

Not too busy ,was given the opportunity of an introductory walk and talk on the Tudors,very good guide; Archie, if I remember correctly.Will return.

Highly recommend for an hour-2 hour visit. Lots to see, very impressive portraits that you'd swear were photographs and not hand drawn! Also the building itself is beautiful.

So this is where they got all those paintings for the royal documentaries.

Fascinating journey through time among the portraits of the characters who made the history of Great Britain. Admission is free.

Have visited at least 8 times. Worth using the sound guide. Makes pictures more interesting

A great place to spend an evening and learn about art. Bring comfortable shoes.

Just love it. Gets a tad busy tho! Best around Xmas when events including choirs are on. Go then and enjoy.

A must see, but I would recommend to choose the English audio guide, since the guides in other languages are incomplete

Exciting museum dedicated to the history of the Tudors

A very expensive photographic exhibition, compared to the quantity of works exhibited

I love this gallery, see if you can find Sir Adrian Carton De Wiart by William Orpen. See what the caption says about him. If you want to see what an interesting life is, Google him.

Loved the portraits and location. There is a wonderful view from the upstairs restaurant

A lovely gallery I visit often when in central London.

This was a nice find. Very interesting to see and learn about the people in Britain's history. It was interesting seeing "old" people next to contemporary people.

Absolutely loved this place, and it's free. So much to see.

How can you go wrong here? Amazing collection, well lit, and spacious.

I love this museum, it is actually one of my favourite thanks to the incredible mix of classic and contemporary art and a particular openness to new trends.

Painting in every style and epoch. A feast for the day. I would highly recommend.

Great range of portraits spanning across history. The main gallary is free. Today we visited the temporary paid exhibition of Cezanne which was very informative. Step free access available but not as easy as some other venues.

Will definitely be going back - you can't see everything in one visit so feel really fortunate that London is a short train ride away

Don't miss this gem on the side of the building, it's often overlooked

Yet another shining example of British museums at their finest

Had an enjoyable visit yesterday. Lots of historic and contemporary portraits and it's free to visit.

Good number of high quality paintings, prints and sculptures.

The portraits are very life-like and there are many famous people that you will easily recognise. The organisation of the gallery is neat and easy to walk through. My favourite was the portrait of Prince Harry and Prince William.

Signage to direct in, around and out of the gallery is wanting - sorry this can't help but detract from the visit

Great art gallery off trafalgar square. Also best viewed left luggage in London

If you are a big fan of portraits, please come and enjoy all the collections here!!

One of the best galleries in London, always worth visiting.

Super permanent collection where entrance is free and fabulous paid exhibitions.

and sharing it with 2 of my 5 daughters? Priceless.

Great Art if you're in to that, but also a lot of non-art.

I was even able to lure my family, which is not so museum-savvy. Impressive pictures that you can hardly find in density. A must for every visit to London

Beautiful and large collection. For each his own. Enough benches to relax in between.

Mixture of old and new. Not many museums or galleries around the world are free but this one is And it's great!

I loved it. There are the usual things always on display, but there are also items that are changed out with new things from the vast archives they have, plus special exhibits and tours. Just wonderful and dynamic. Highly recommended any time you are in the area. And one of the best things and something the government gets right - it's free admission to everyone. Highly Recommended.

Always great to see up and coming artists' paintings from around the world. Great selection of portraits, and free!!!

Had a fab time listening to the artist Simon Frederick about their work. #blackisthenewblack exhibit the late night sessions open till 9pm on a Friday it was great!

It's always great to go and see people's hard work on show!

Making a solid effort to have more than just posh white dudes.

Inspirational
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