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Central Galleries
A look inside the Central Galleries

Explore themes such as the male gaze, books, fashion, refugees, slavery and kindness.
Inside the Central Galleries
A suite of galleries at the heart of the museum that use ground-breaking and dynamic ways to explore the Collection.
Explore spaces that are a riot of vivid colours, discover how people across the world have represented themselves, see beautiful displays of fine art, with interpretation that brings paintings to life in inspiring and challenging ways.
Old favourites - Cezanne, Degas, Rodin, Courbet and Manet feature in these spaces – alongside some of the Collection’s finest furniture and tapestries.
Gallery Highlights
A selection from the Central Galleries

Women Drinking Beer, Edouard Manet, Paris, France, 1878

Writing Cabinet, England, about 1720-1730

Wall tile with part of the Qu'ran verse (48:4), 12th to 13th century

Tapestry panel showing David and Bathsheba, 1480

Nocturne: Grey and Gold - Westminster Bridge, by James McNeill Whistler, 1872-1874

Wood carving of The Virgin Mary, 1275-1300

Shield of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, about 1537

Virgin and Child, Giovanni Bellini, Italy, about 1485-1488

Portrait of Edmond Duranty, Edgar Degas, 1879

Ewer, Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368

Embroidered panel, about 1700–1715

Grief, by Matthijs Maris, 1887






