Gallery A at National Gallery in London completed - C.F. Møller. Photo: © The National Gallery, London
3.6.2014

Gallery A at National Gallery in London completed

The new C.F. Møller-designed Gallery A at the National Gallery in London has opened up a lower-floor space to visitors, turning a former storage space into a new permanent gallery featuring some 218 works by artists from Botticelli to Rosa Bonheur.
Gallery A at National Gallery in London completed - C.F. Møller. Photo: © The National Gallery, London
Gallery A at National Gallery in London completed - C.F. Møller. Photo: © The National Gallery, London
The National Gallery in London is one of Europe's most important museums. It houses the British collection of older Western European art from the 13th to the 19th century. The museum was founded in 1824 and is located on Trafalgar Square in a neo-classical building. Room A, as it was formerly known, was built in 1975 and used to store paintings for show on the main-floor galleries. Following a two-year transformation, the 1050 m2 space is now opening to the public as Gallery A, and will show a wide selection of paintings from the 13th to early 20th centuries. C.F. Møller worked with the National Gallery's design team on the project that has transformed the formerly labyrinthine space into an elegant gallery with state-of-the-art lighting, subtle wall colouring and a choice of paintings divided into three sections - Renaissance, Baroque and post-1800 - featuring works by artists such as Botticelli, Emile-Jean-Horace Vernet and the Barbizon School. The National Gallery says, 'This newly reopened space will aim to increase visitors' appreciation and understanding of some of the gallery's lesser-known paintings and provide the space and opportunity to study these works in greater detail than before.' C.F. Møller has a framework agreement with the National Gallery, and the project is C.F. Møller's third completed London museum project, after the Darwin Centre phase II at the Natural History Museum, and the new Sammy Ofer Wing at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

 

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