National Portrait Gallery | Saying Goodbye to the Contemporary Portraits @nationalportraitgallery | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
At the end of June 2020, the National Portrait Gallery building in St Martin’s Place, London closed until Spring 2023 in order for essential building works to take place on Inspiring People, the Gallery’s biggest ever re-development. The project will transform the Gallery with a comprehensive re-display and re-presentation of the Collection from the Tudors to now across 40 renewed galleries, combined with a complete refurbishment of the building.
Before the building works could begin, all the portraits on display had to be removed. Room by room our team took down each portrait, packing them away safely for them to be transported to other venues or temporarily placed in storage - a huge undertaking not seen since works were evacuated to Buckinghamshire during the Second World War.
⭐ Watch as our team works their way through the Contemporary Gallery
At the end of June 2020, the National Portrait Gallery building in St Martin’s Place, London closed until Spring 2023 in order for essential building works to take place on Inspiring People, the Gallery’s biggest ever re-development. The project will transform the Gallery with a comprehensive re-display and re-presentation of the Collection from the Tudors to now across 40 renewed galleries, combined with a complete refurbishment of the building.
Before the building works could begin, all the portraits on display had to be removed. Room by room our team took down each portrait, packing them away safely for them to be transported to other venues or temporarily placed in storage - a huge undertaking not seen since works were evacuated to Buckinghamshire during the Second World War.
⭐ Watch as our team works their way through the Contemporary Gallery
