Exhibitions
Free exhibitions throughout the building all year round. Open 9.30am – 11pm, Monday – Saturday (from 4pm on Bank Holidays) and Sunday 12pm - 6pm.
Stage by Stage Permanent exhibition
An exhibition on the National's history is on permanent display in the Olivier Circle Gallery. It tells the National's story from 1848 to the present day and includes nearly 200 photographs and illustrations. A 32pp booklet to accompany the exhibition (published in 1997) is available. It includes photographs from the exhibition plus many more, and is £0.50p.
Free Exhibitions:
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Alison Chitty: Design Process 1970-2010
This exhibition shows us the process of award-winning theatre designer Alison Chitty.
Mar 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 > -
From Congo with Love
Fashion photographer Rankin returned to the Congo with Oxfam in October 2009 and ran a series of photographic workshops, designed to enable one community to tell their own stories of love in a conflict zone.
Mar 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 > -
Sergei Paradjanov through the lens of Yuri Mechitov
This exhibition is composed of rarely seen photographs taken by Mechitov during their 11-year friendship.
Mar 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 > -
Doug Patterson: Artist in Paradise
Following the journeys of three great 18th & 19th-century artist travellers, Patterson has created paintings and drawings which record three of the world’s great faiths.
Apr 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11 > -
Forgotten Spaces
Forgotten Spaces showcases the best entries from a design competition in which designers were invited to seek out disused and forgotten areas of London and propose ideas for developing the space.
May 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 > -
West End Theatre in the 19th Century
This exhibition of rare programmes, playbills, prints, portraits and artefacts, celebrates 19th-century London theatre and showcases original material from the Westminster Libraries and Archives Theatre Collection.
May 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, Jun 01 >
