Open Daily from 10 to 17
The Wallace Collection
Hertford House
Manchester Square
London
W1U 3BN
United Kingdom
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The Wallace Collection is a national museum displaying the art collections brought together by the first four marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace. The collections were bequeathed to the British nation in 1897 by Lady Wallace, Sir Richard’s widow. It is housed in Hertford House the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. The museum opened to the public in 1900.
In the Wallace Collection, you can find :
All those collections are from the 15th to the 19th centuries and it holds an important collection of French 18th-century pieces.
For the first time, the Wallace Collection is bringing together its clocks by one of history’s greatest designers and cabinetmakers, André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732), in a display that explores the art and science of timekeeping. Five exceptional timepieces will tell the story of how Boulle took advantage of scientific discoveries to create unique clock designs, whose influence spread throughout the world and across the centuries.