National Portrait Gallery of London to shut for three years

The world’s largest portrait gallery, London’s famous National Portrait Gallery, is going to shut its doors for the next three years. The museum is shutting down owing to refurbishment work and will open up with some new provisions. The museum is set to shut down on June 29, 2020, and will open only in the spring of 2023. The museum is going to include new public spaces, and a new visitor entrance, among other things.
The 123-year-old London museum is going to go through a 35.5 million pound redevelopment and will lend 300 portraits a year to regional galleries all across the UK during that time. So, even though the museum is going to remain shut for three years, you can very well see its portraits in other museums.
The National Portrait Gallery has, in fact, already planned on some collaborations, so keep an eye on these exhibitions during the three years that it is going to remain shut - York Art Gallery in 2021; and Tudor portraits exhibition in partnership with Holburne Museum, Bath, in 2022. In addition to this, the museum is also collaborating in other exhibitions, such as the National Museums Liverpool, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle and Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

The National Portrait Gallery opened in 1856, and it was the first portrait gallery in the world. It is known for housing a collection of portraits of important British people. Today, it has the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Entry to the gallery is free, much like a few other museums of London, and hence is a very important place for tourists to visit.