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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