London - Wallace Collection

 
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.

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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 collection contains an extraordinarily wide range of works of the highest quality in many different genres. Many of the rooms have pieces by the celebrated French furniture designers Boulle (1642-1732), Cressent (1685-1768) and Riesener (1734-1806).
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Address: The Wallace Collection, Hertford House
Manchester Square, London W1U 3BN, England
Hours:
10am-5pm
Always closed on: New Year's Day (January 1), May Day / Labor Day (May 1), Day after Christmas, St Stephen's Day, Boxing Day (December 26), Christmas - Christian (December 25), Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24), Good Friday - Christian
Disability Access: Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
Facilities: Gift shop
Transit: Underground: Bond Street; Bus: 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16A, 23, 30, 73, 74, 82, 94, 98, 113, 135, 137, 137A, 139, 159, 274

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