LONDON.- The National Gallery today announces a new national touring project, The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep. This project will work with organisations across the UK to help share masterpieces from the nation’s collection with communities beyond Trafalgar Square. For the next three years we will be reaching all four nations of the UK, travelling to a total of 12 partners. The first four exhibition partners from June 2025 to March 2026 are Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Croydon Council, Torbay Council and Derry City & Strabane District Council.

The National Gallery will work with these partners to create exhibitions for local communities by choosing up to 30 printed reproductions of masterpieces from the collection. Each painting will be reproduced life-sized, in fine detail and in its frame, allowing visitors the chance to look closely at the brushstrokes and discover hidden details. Outdoors and free to view, these exhibitions will entwine art with the everyday.

On the 10th of May the National Gallery opened its doors to C C Land: The Wonder of Art, a display of over 1,000 works of art, free and available to see in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square. With Art On Your Doorstep, some of these masterpieces will be even closer to home. Each exhibition will not only be displayed across the local community but also be shaped by it, engaging with local people, landmarks and cultural spaces.

The first exhibition will open in Stoke-on-Trent on 4 June 2025. Fifteen printed masterpieces will be installed in an outdoor exhibition in Bethesda Gardens, opposite The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, as part of the city’s Centenary celebrations. Subsequent exhibitions in Croydon and Torquay will have specially created trails running through their town centres and highlighting local flagship heritage spaces. In Derry/Londonderry, the partnership is being used as an opportunity to share the National Gallery’s collection across the wider district with displays in the city centre, Acorn Farm and St Columb’s Park, as well as in neighbouring Strabane and beyond.

Derry City & Strabane District Council’s Head of Culture, Aeidin McCarter, said “I’m really looking forward to the exhibition which offers a wonderful opportunity to engage local people and connect them to popular works following on from the National Gallery’s Art Road Trip and the fantastic Triumph of Music led by award-winning conceptual artist Jeremy Deller in April. Derry has a creative and thriving arts community and the Council’s Museums team is delighted to work with the National Gallery to provide enriching and exciting new experiences that will provide meaningful and inspiring ways for people to relate to artists and their work.”