National Gallery surpasses 4 million visitors in record-breaking 2025 post-bicentenary boom

Over four million people saw a National Gallery painting in person in 2025 - wherever they were on display. 4,213,845 visits were made in person in 2025 to the National Gallery, London, and to its exhibitions, displays and other creative programmes on tour. * 4,147,544 visits were made to the National Gallery’s Trafalgar Square site in London during 2025 (that is an increase of 29% on the 2024 figure of 3,203,451.) Following its Bicentenary in 2024 the Gallery benefited from the opening of the newly transformed Sainsbury Wing – restoring the 30% visitor capacity that had been lost during its temporary closure for renovation – and the opening of CC Land: The Wonder of Art, the biggest-ever rehang of the Gallery’s collection (both from 10 May 2025). The Bicentenary activities also ended in summer 2025 with the Art Road Trip around Britain and Northern Ireland and Jeremy Deller’s nationwide celebration The Triumph of Art, visiting all four nations, and culminatin