We'd like to wish our neighbours a happy birthday 🎊

Wonderful national partner meeting at the National Portrait Gallery today. It was amazing to see how many people are visiting Colin Davidson #SilentTestimony exhibition.

Year 5 were overwhelmed with excitement , when they came across a portrait of Sir Ernest Shackleton and other famous people, at the National Portrait Gallery. Brunswick Park Primary School Years 5 Brunswick Park Primary School Year 4 Classes Brunswick Park Primary School National Portrait Gallery

Just one week left to apply for our free NPG Youth 'Going Pro' insights programme National Portrait Gallery - applications close on 17 May! ⏰

npg.org.uk/whatson/event-…

Happy 98th Birthday to #NationalTreasure , #conservationist and renowned broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough 🎉

Which is your favourite Attenborough documentary?

📷 by Sam Barker, 2015 © Sam Barker

Photo London X National Portrait Gallery: Valérie Belin in conversation with Holly Roussell National Portrait Gallery

Join a discussion about Belin’s work through the lens of what she considers her practice of “psychological portraiture”.

17 May at 19.00
Book tickets: bit.ly/pl-npg-talk

Associated with spring's fertility and the start of summer, #MayDay is often celebrated with flower garlands and dancing.

You can see this work and more in #PortraitsToDreamIn .

Link: npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibi…

📸 The Rosebud Garden of Girls, 1868 © The J. Paul Getty Museum, LA

To what extent can the lives of individual people and their portraits help us understand the history of migration to Britain? Learn this and more via our online Schools hub.

➡️ npg.org.uk/schoolshub

🎨 Sake Dean Mahomed by William Maddocks, June 1822 © NPG, London

With over 12 films and 9 spin-off series, #StarWars is a cultural mainstay. From leading actors to those working behind the scenes, this saga has created hundreds of jobs for British film industry talents like Ben Morris, who worked in visual effects.

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

This week Year 2 went to the National Portrait Gallery to see the significant figures they've been learning about in history up close and personal!

Don’t miss out 📣 It’s your last chance to enter the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024.

📅 Submit by 7 May 2024
➡️ via the following link: npg.org.uk/photoprize
🤝 Supported by Taylor Wessing LLP

📷 Ncuti Gatwa, August 2022 by Jonangelo Molinari © Jonangelo Molinari

So looking forward to being part of Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens exhibition teacher's CPD NPG Schools event where we'll imagine the Black Tudor Trumpeter who performed in front Henry's first wife...

From sports personalities to celebrity crushes, musicians to chefs, soap opera favourites to Hollywood stars, we are throwing it back to the 90s for our #PortraitOfTheDay this May.

Starting with the footballer and tv personality that is #IanWright .

📸 1997 © Robert Wilson

Today's Art UK #OnlineArtExchange theme is #WomenInPhotography for the 'Portraits to Dream In' exhibition at National Portrait Gallery!

This week we've chosen 'Mirror – Untitled, September 2015' by Hannah Starkey 📸

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Our free schools programme for ‘Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens’ National Portrait Gallery is available to book now! 📣

From a Teacher CPD evening, History study day and a History careers day, there’s lots to get involved in! ⬇️

npg.org.uk/schools-hub/#q…

Congrats on the #PortraitsToDreamIn exhibition, National Portrait Gallery 🎉 To celebrate, today's Art UK #OnlineArtExchange is all about women in photography so we've chosen a new-ish addition to our Collection by Eleonora Agostini.

Are YOUR family photos as delightfully weird as hers?