Disabled visitors can bring an assistant for free at all times.
Free admission for: Under 18s, Full Time UK Students, Staff of UK Universities, Registered Unwaged.
Admission charge includes entrance to all temporary exhibitions and displays.
Telephone: 020 7848 2777
Nearest Tube Stations:
- Charing Cross
- Temple
- Covent Garden
- Holborn
Location map: Courtauld Institute of Art website
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Last admission: 5.15pm
Read a review and visitor information for the Courtauld Gallery.
The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery has one of the most important collections in Britain, including world-famous Old Master, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist paintings, and an outstanding prints and drawings collection featuring works by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, and Turner. The collection includes around 530 paintings, 7000 drawings, and 15,000 prints as well as significant holdings of medieval, Renaissance and modern sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, furniture, and textiles.
The gallery's unique and intimate atmosphere reflects its origins as a 'collection of collections', largely formed through a series of major gifts and bequests made by some of the leading collectors of the 19th and 20th centuries. These include Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), Roger Fry (1866-1934), Thomas Gambier Parry (1816-88), Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868-1947) and Count Antoine Seilern (1901-78). To reflect the importance of these individual collections, the displays at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery are currently arranged by collector. Offering a fresh look at well-known masterpieces from the collection, this installation presents fascinating insights into the tastes of individual collectors, as well as the aesthetic debates which informed the periods in which the core collections were formed.
See the Highlights of the Collection.
