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The Royal Collection Group Visits & Private Tours 2012 THE ROYAL COLLECTION GROUP VISITS & PRIVATE TOURS 2012 The Official Residences of The Queen WelcoME WHAT’S ON IN DiaMond JUBilee Year I am delighted to introduce you to the Royal 2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Collection’s new programme of group visits and January Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration private tours. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 13 January – 25 March The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 is being marked by a series of February Accession Day, 6 February exciting exhibitions at each of Her Majesty’s official residences. I hope The Queen: Sixty Photographs for Sixty Years that you will take pleasure in seeing these displays and sharing in the The Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle celebrations of The Queen’s 60-year reign. 4 February – January 2013 Your booking will make an important contribution to the charitable March Treasures from The Queen’s Palaces work of the Royal Collection Trust. The income from your ticket and The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse from any purchase you make in our shops supports the Trust’s work 16 March – 16 September through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational activities, Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration enabling the maximum possible enjoyment of the Royal Collection Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 30 March – 10 June in many different ways. April Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer You can learn more about the work of the Royal Collection and Harewood House, 6 April – 17 June the many activities directly supported by your booking by visiting www.royalcollection.org.uk. May Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace 4 May – 7 October June Central Jubilee Weekend, 2–5 June NEW Jonathan Marsden Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration roYal collEctIon Director of the Royal Collection Ulster Museum, Belfast, 15 June – 27 August WEbsITE Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer Look out for the new Royal Russell-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, 29 June – 16 September Collection website, where July Olympic Games, 27 July – 12 August booking a group visit online is now easier than ever: Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration www.royalcollection.org.uk/ Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace groups 30 July – 30 September To keep in touch and up to date with all the latest visits August Paralympic Games, 29 August – 9 September and tours, please subscribe to Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration our new groups e-Newsletter. The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum 31 August – 4 November September Francis Bedford’s Royal Tour of 1862 The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse 28 September – 3 February 2013 November The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace 2 November – 14 April 2013 Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 10 November – 20 January 2013 Cover image: Her Majesty The Queen at The State Opening of Parliament, 2006 Royal Collection exhibition at an official residence of The Queen Opposite: The ‘Girls of Great Britain’ Tiara, Royal Collection touring exhibition 1893, R & S Garrard Above: Queen Victoria’s Fringe Brooch, National event 1856, R & S Garrard Direct booking line 020 7766 7321 www.royalcollection.org.uk 5 Group Visit BucKinghaM THE StatE Rooms, BucKIngham PalacE palace Buckingham Palace serves as both the office and London residence of Her Majesty The Queen. It is one of the few working royal palaces remaining in the world today. During August and September, when the Palace is not being used in its official capacity, visitors can enjoy the nineteen magnificent State Rooms. mith S Photographer: Peter Peter Photographer: The State Rooms are at the heart of Diamonds: A Jubilee Celebration, the OPENIng TIMES the Palace and provide the setting for spectacular display at the Summer Opening, 30 July – 30 September ceremonial occasions and official will show the many ways in which diamonds Open daily 09:45–18:30 entertaining. have been used by British monarchs over (last admission 15:45) the last 200 years. The exhibition includes They are lavishly furnished with many a number of The Queen’s personal jewels of the greatest treasures from the Royal ADMIssIon prICE – those inherited by Her Majesty or acquired Collection, including paintings by Van during her reign. The exhibition will reveal Individual Group Dyck and Canaletto, sculpture by Canova, how many of these extraordinary stones exquisite pieces of Sèvres porcelain, and Adult £18.00 £16.20 have undergone a number of some of the finest English and French Over 60/ transformations, having been re-cut or furniture in the world. incorporated into new settings during their Student £16.50 £14.85 A complimentary audio tour provides a fascinating history. Under 17 £10.25 £9.30 lively introduction to centuries of royal At the end of a visit to the State Rooms, history and includes interviews with Royal Buckingham Palace’s popular Garden Café Household staff about the working palace on the West Terrace is the perfect place for and the works of art on display. groups to gather and enjoy views across the famous lawn. taines S dward dward E Opposite: The Queen at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party, 2010 Above: The White Drawing Room Left: The Garden Café, Buckingham Palace Photographer: Photographer: Ian Jones Ian Photographer: Right: The Cullinan V Brooch, Garrard & Co., 1911 4 Direct booking line 020 7766 7321 www.royalcollection.org.uk 5 COMBINED visit Group Visit thE STATE ROOMS AND HIGHLIGHTS GARDEN TOUR, THE ROYal MEWS, BucKIngham PalacE BUCKINGHAM PALACE ykes ykes S S imon- imon- S S hristopher hristopher hristopher hristopher C C Photographer: Photographer: Photographer: Photographer: Top left: The Herbaceous Border, Enjoy a leisurely day out at Buckingham AvaIlabILITY The Gold State Coach is the most A complimentary audio tour offers a OPENIng TIMES Buckingham Palace garden Palace and combine a visit to the dazzling of the coaches and carriages unique insight into the work of the Royal Top right: Wisteria-clad summer house, 30 July – 30 September 1 February – 31 March and Buckingham Palace garden State Rooms with a guided tour of housed at the Mews, and traditionally Mews, one of the finest working stables Open daily 09:45–18:30 1 November – 21 December Below: Highlights Garden Tour, the most remarkable features of the plays an important part in Jubilee in existence and a Royal Household Buckingham Palace garden (last admission 14:15) Open Monday to Saturday famous garden. celebrations. department. Alternatively, you may prefer 10:00–16:00 to join one of the regular guided tours The Highlights Garden Tour includes CombINED-TICKET prICE Among the other historic coaches and (last admission 15:15) offered from March to October. the beautiful Herbaceous Border, the carriages on display is the luxurious Adult £24.00 1 April – 31 October wisteria-clad summer house and Rose Australian State Coach, with central Open daily 10:00–17:00 Garden, the enormous Waterloo Vase Over 60/Student £22.80 heating and electric windows, which (last admission 16:15) and the Palace tennis court, where Under 17 £14.00 carried The Queen and The Duke of King George VI and Fred Perry played Edinburgh from Westminster Abbey to ADMIssIon prICE in the 1930s. Minimum number 15/ Buckingham Palace after the Royal maximum number 25 Individual Group The 39-acre garden is today the setting for Wedding in 2011. The Irish Coach, used The Queen’s Garden Parties. Described as by The Queen for the State Opening of Adult £8.25 £7.40 ‘a walled oasis in the middle of London’, it Parliament, is also on permanent display. Over 60/ boasts more than 350 types of wild flower, The horses stabled at the Mews are Student £7.50 £6.75 over 200 trees and a three-acre lake. Windsor Greys and Cleveland Bays. Under 17 £5.20 £4.65 Between the audio tour of the State Rooms and the guided tour of the garden, the Price includes an audio tour itinerary allows time for your group to take or guided tour. in the panoramic view of the lawn from the Garden Café and to visit the Garden shop. ibera A visit to the State Rooms lasts L approximately two and a half hours, and a guided tour of the garden lasts 45 minutes. Above: The Gold State Coach Photographer: Pawel Pawel Photographer: Left: The Glass Coach leaves the Royal Mews for the State Opening of Parliament 6 www.royalcollection.org.uk Direct booking line 020 7766 7321 Direct booking line 020 7766 7321 www.royalcollection.org.uk 7 the Queen’S gallery BucKinghaM Palace Photographer: Ian Jones Ian Photographer: Photographer: Ian Jones Ian Photographer: PRIvatE TalKS EXHIBITIon TalK and VIEWS To appreciate an exhibition in more depth, book an exclusive introductory Enjoy an exhibition without the talk by a Royal Collection curator or crowds with one of our experts expert in the Gallery’s Redgrave Room. or your own guide. OPENIng TIMES Following the talk, your group is free to PRIvatE MornIng VISIT enjoy the exhibition at leisure using a LEONARDO Open daily 10:00–17:30 complimentary audio guide. (last admission 16:30) 09:30–10:30, (except August and September), £20 per person. THE NORtheRN avaIlabILITY DA VINCI: ADMIssIon prICE Minimum number 50/booking value Individual Group £1,000, maximum number 150. 15 May – 28 June 2012 RenAISSANCE Groups may bring their own guide. (Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomy) ANATOMY Adult £9.25 £8.35 6 November – Over 60/ PRIvatE EvENIng VIEW 13 December 2012 DÜRER to HOLBEIN (The Northern Renaissance: * Student £8.50 £7.60 18:00–19:00. £25 per person.
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