The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace

The Queen's Gallery is an exhibition institution at Buckingham Palace, which deals with the presentation of the Royal Collection, which is works of art owned by the British royal family. Collections located in 13 residences in Great Britain are the largest private collection in the world that collects over a million exhibits. Queen's Gallery has no permanent exhibition - it prepares temporary thematic exhibitions every year.

The Queen's Gallery was opened in 1962 and operated continuously until 1999, when renovation and extension began. After the Doric portico and new rooms were added (the exhibition area increased three times), in 2002 the gallery was again made available to visitors. The London's Queen's Gallery, along with its counterpart at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh and the Drawings Gallery at Windsor Castle and The Jewel House in the Tower, are the most important places of public presentation of royal collections.

Royal Collection is, among others 7 thousand oil paintings, 30 thousand drawings and watercolors, and hundreds of thousands of photographs, textiles, furniture, ceramics, cars and lace, carriages, jewelry, clocks, musical instruments, manuscripts, books, sculptures and crown jewels. The giant collection is managed by the Royal Collection Trust, headed by Prince Karol.