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IT Gallery

IT Gallery
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IT Gallery


IT Gallery
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IT GALLERY and the Woodward Portrait Explorer

The IT Gallery, located on the Ground Floor mezzanine, provides the public with unprecedented access to the treasures of the National Portrait Gallery's collections.

The Portrait Explorer system, supported by the Woodward Trust, allows visitors to explore in depth 31,500 portraits in the Gallery's primary, photographic and archive collections. Using 10 large touchscreens, visitors can exploit technology for pleasure and research in ways that cannot be done by other means.

Recent developments

Guide to the Woodward Portrait Explorer

The Woodward Portrait Explorer on CD-ROM


The National Portrait Gallery has developed its IT Gallery, website and electronic publishing in conjunction with Cognitive Applications, the Brighton-based multimedia company who have developed IT galleries at national galleries in both London and Washington and most recently at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.



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