Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
from 10.00 to 17.00.
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London WC2H 0HE
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The Heinz Archive and Library is situated in the National Portrait Gallery. For more information about the National Portrait Gallery, visit this page.
The Library was created in 1857 as the director of the time wanted to establish recordkeeping systems, reference portraits and library collections to assist his work. It was renamed the Heinz Library and Archive after Drue Heinz, a British-born American actress, philanthropist, arts patron, and socialite, who donated an important sum to the library. It opened under this name in 1993.
The library includes 35,000 books and subscribes to 70 periodicals including many titles essential to the study of art history. It also subscribes to selected electronic resources which can be accessed by researchers onsite.
The library is accessible, by appointment only, to visitors who are interested in any aspect of British portraiture or in the history of the Gallery. To book an appointment, please email archive@npg.org.uk.