National Gallery Audio Buddy

Sometimes you find a place so genuinely special that you recall visiting there with great fondness. The National Gallery is one such. It is an island of calm amidst the chaotic London traffic.

The gallery is centrally located at Trafalgar Square overlooking the tall Nelson’s column. This makes it within stone’s throw of several attractions such as the Big Ben, Westminister, Downing Street, Horse Guards, James Park, Hyde Park and Buckingham palace. Being the beating heart of London, that practically leaves you with no excuse to not visit and visit, you must! Your eyes will feast on such a sumptuous parade of spectacular paintings that is famed for its beauty and breadth!

The sprawling galleries are arranged thematically as well as chronologically. To begin a chronological journey start your itinerary from the Sainsburys wing that features some of the oldest works in the collection and can be dated to Early Renaissance. Transitioning through the corridor will bring you into the middle of the building as well as the epicentre of the collection. You are now in the main building, being surrounded by Titians and Raphaels and a collection of gloriously beautiful High Renaissance works. Room after room from now on - feast your eyes on a captivating array of works. As

you walk from Italy to England via Spain and France you would have navigated four hundred years of European art from these regions. Your final stop would be the superb collection of Impressionist works that will leave you feeling being in 19th century France! Pinch yourself here to make sure you are still in London! As you make your way out, the familiar hustle and bustle of Trafalgar Square with black cabs and red London buses would feel both welcoming and reassuring!

If you are here for a pit stop or to take shelter during a spell of rain, follow the App’s fast paced 1 hour Tour. We begin our trip from the heart of Renaissance in Room 9 where we visit wonderful paintings of Titian, Raphael and Michelangelo. We then make our way to the Dutch masters and the Spanish treasures. We revel in the Caravaggist paintings before taking in the glory of the French Rococo. We next embark on the Grand manner of English Romanticism and our final stop is at the Impressionist and Post Impressionist works from across Europe. Here, we end our momentous journey by visiting the sublime works of Van Gogh which are the crowning jewels of the gallery.

if you have more time in hand or a whole rain day ahead make it one for the free museums and galleries of London. With this app you can

* Enjoy room-by-room navigation at your fingertips!

* Plan your itinerary and create your own tour

* Embark on one of the longer guided tours.

* Read insightful descriptions with amazing trivia

The app provides a number of remarkable tours of the Museum, both long and short. If you decide to design your own tour, there are hundreds of highlights to choose from by including your favourite artists. The gallery proudly hosts Dutch masters such as Rembrandt, Van Dyck, French greats such as Claude and Poussin, Spanish masters such as Velazquez and Goya and British greats such as JMW Turner, Gainsborough and John Constable. You can go from Titian to Da Vinci, Van Gogh to Velazquez, and Mantegna to Monet within seconds and awaken hundreds of these beautiful works with your Midas touch!

With close to 500 paintings, 180 different artists and 70 galleries to explore, there is no better way or time to see the National Gallery. We hope you enjoy the app. Don’t forget your ear phones because the buddy needs your ear buds!