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Wallace Collection Description

The Wallace Collection, one of the most valuable art collections ever presented to the nation by a private person, is housed in 25 galleries of a mansion built for the Duke of Manchester in 1776-88 which, in spite of much subsequent alteration, still gives an excellent impression of the appearance of a great town house of the period. The basis of the collection was laid by the third and fourth Marquesses of Hertford. The son of the fourth Marquess, Sir Richard Wallace, added to the collection, which was bequeathed to the nation by his widow and opened to the public in 1900. Since then nothing has been changed, for it was a condition of the bequest that the collection should be kept intact, "unmixed with other objects of art". The

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Hobbies & Activities category: Paintings, art collections; Furniture display; Glass, porcelain, pottery exhibit; Gold, silver, metalworking exhibit; Major world-scale museum

Wallace Collection Highlights

Wallace Collection Tour

Rooms 1 & 2

French furniture by Boulle; Sèvres porcelain; paintings by Lawrence ("George IV", "Countess of Blessington").

Rooms 3 & 4

Italian majolica of the Renaissance period, including

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Address

The Wallace Collection
Hertford House
Manchester Square
London W1U 3BN
United Kingdom

http://www.wallacecollection.org

Hours



Open	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Good Friday - Christian May Day / Labor Day (May 1) Christmas - Christian (December 25) Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24) Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26)