The Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection is a national museum in the heart of London with an internationally outstanding collection of unsurpassed masterpieces of paintings, sculpture, furniture, arms and armour and porcelain. It is free and open daily.
Built over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, it is one of the finest and most celebrated collections in the world.
So that it could be kept together and enjoyed by generations of visitors, the collection was given to the British Nation in 1897. It was an astonishing bequest and one of the greatest gifts of art works ever to be transferred into public ownership.
Today, our job is to maintain, research, and inspire the public to love and understand the Collection.
Celebrating Lady Wallace
Madame de Pompadour's favourite artist at the Wallace Collection
Explore 'Delusions of Grandeur' with Grayson Perry
Marie-Antoinette: Not Just A Pretty Face
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
A Conversation with Flora Yukhnovich
A Pair of Gold and Steel Quoits
The Armour of Childhood
The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
An Ornate Cuirass Depicting Guru Nanak
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo
A sword belonging to Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Step into Flora Yukhnovich's studio
Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King
Turner and Bonington: Watercolours from the Wallace Collection
Meet the Expert: The Armourers of New Julfa
An Armenian Armour in Isfahan
Rosa Bonheur
Meet the Expert: A Closer Look at Miniatures in the Wallace Collection
Meet the Expert: Experiencing and Painting Venice in the 18th Century
Conserving an 18th-Century Chest of Drawers
Conserving our miniatures and illuminated manuscript cuttings
Spectacle in Venice in the 18th Century
Black Presence in the Wallace Collection
Seminar in the History of Collecting: Provenancing the Dragoon Vases
Meet the Expert: Celebrating 150 years of the ‘Wallace’ fountains
The story of the 'Wallace' fountain at Hertford House
Meet the Expert: A Master Armourer of Augsburg, Anton Peffenhauser
How to Make Your Own Theatre Box
Make Your Own Jumping Jack