Online tour shows all picture displays at National Gallery

Fahad Redha

May 7, 2026
2 min read

Online tour shows all picture displays at National Gallery

The National Gallery’s collection displays can be witnessed in their entirety in a new online tour on its website. The tour was made possible thanks to a collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.

The online tour opens all picture rooms of the Gallery online for the first time, capturing the “acclaimed” 2024–25 Bicentenary redisplays of the whole collection, CC Land: The Wonder of Art. Prior to this new tour, its previous iteration, part of the National Gallery’s website since 2016, has only shown the contents of eight rooms.

Now, a “much more extensive experience” according to the Gallery, allows viewers to either join a “comprehensive” tour of all its collection picture room, or a highlights tour covering seven rooms, handpicked by its curators to give a “representative flavour of the in-person experience” of the CC Land: The Wonder of Art collection displays and interpretation.

The highlights tour also focuses on specific paintings in each room, including links to more in-depth pages on each with hi-res imagery on Google Arts & Culture website and app and links to the National Gallery’s collection website that span 700 years of art history.

These paintings include Jan Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait, Sebastiano del Piombo’s The Raising of Lazarus, Johannes Vermeer’s A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun’s Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, Edouard Manet’s portrait of the artist Eva Gonzalès, Sir Thomas Lawrence’s The Red Boy and Claude Monet’s The Water-Lily Pond.

These were “a huge hit” with audiences during Covid lockdown, the Gallery says, adding that Google Arts & Culture’s first online tour of eight rooms of the National Gallery attracted over one million views between November 2020 and January 2021.

This is the latest collaboration between the Gallery and Google Arts & Culture that began in 2011 by providing “high-resolution viewing and 360-degree virtual tours” of the collection. For its 200th anniversary (2024–2025), the Gallery collaborated with Google Arts & Culture on a project to digitise 200 of its paintings in high-resolution together with an AI-powered experience National Gallery Mixtape, The National Gallery Reframed.

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Fahad Redha

Fahad is the Content Editor at EyeOnLondon, overseeing the publication’s editorial output across news, culture, and lifestyle. With a background in journalism from the University of the Creative Arts, he brings a broad range of experience from local London reporting in Kensington & Chelsea, where he held roles including motoring, events, and health editor. At EyeOnLondon, Fahad plays a central role in shaping content and maintaining editorial standards. His work spans everything from daily news to feature coverage, with a particular strength in motoring and events. He also incorporates photography into his reporting, adding a visual layer to many of his stories. Fahad joined EyeOnLondon in February 2021.