The Courtauld Gallery
An art gallery inside Somerset House holding one of the UK's finest Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections, from Manet and Van Gogh to the most significant group of Cézannes in Britain.
- Museum
- Price: £ · Budget
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Did you know
Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère both hang here. The gallery reopened in 2021 after a three-year, £57 million renovation of its Somerset House rooms.
Local tip
It's easy to treat this as a quick add-on to a Somerset House visit, but the collection is dense enough (Botticelli, Rubens, and a dedicated Bloomsbury Group room) to deserve a proper hour on its own.
Finding it
- Address
- Strand, St Clement Danes, Covent Garden, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, WC2R 1LA
- Nearest station
- Temple (Tube), 190 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Somerset HouseA grand neoclassical building on the Strand with a courtyard and fountain court open to all, plus the Courtauld Gallery, exhibitions and a river terrace.
- Australia HouseThe Australian High Commission's grand marble banking hall, doubling as Gringotts Wizarding Bank in the first Harry Potter film.
- London Transport MuseumA museum tracing 200 years of London's public transport, from horse-drawn buses to Tube trains, in a former Victorian flower market building.
- Royal Opera HouseCovent Garden's home of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet, with a Victorian glass-roofed hall that anyone can walk into for a drink or a look.