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About Queens House

With this elegant house Inigo Jones introduced Palladian style to England. Commissioned by King James I for his wife, Anne of Denmark, it was a garden villa to complement the Tudor palace at Greenwich. Completed in 1635 during the turbulent years before the English Civil War and Charles I gave it to his queen, Henrietta Maria. It survived the destruction of the Tudor palace by Cromwell’s army to become the focal point around which Wren created the grand architectural landscape that is Greenwich today.

Special features of the House are the ‘Tulip Staircase’, the cubic Great Hall and a logia and orangery opening onto Greenwich Park with fine views of Wren’s unusual Flamsteed House (the Royal Observatory) and Vanburgh’s castle on Maze Hill.

The House now displays a series of historical paintings portraying the history of these Greenwich buildings and portraits of Tudor and Stuart kings and queens associated with its history. Rooms and galleries throughout the building are a fine setting for several superb maritime art collections which are held by the National Maritime Museum. New artists and photographers are showcased through modern art and touring exhibitions. Restaurant facilities are in the adjacent National Maritime Museum.

Facilities

Opening Times 10.00-17.00. Last admission 16.30.

Queens House Address

Address:
Greenwich, Romney Road, London
London
SE10 9NF
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8312 6565
Fax: +44 (0)20 8312 6572
Email:
Website: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/places/queens-house/

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Prices for Queens House

Admission free except to events and special exhibitions.

 

Location Information for Queens House

Address:
Greenwich, Romney Road, London
London
SE10 9NF
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8312 6565
Fax: +44 (0)20 8312 6572
Email:
Website: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/places/queens-house/
Public transport: Rail – Greenwich (zone 2) DLR – Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich By boat – from most central London piers

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Events at Queens House

  • Art for the Nation

    Exhibition

    Recurring event

    This major exhibition in the historic Queen's House brings together 200 of the Museum's finest works for the largest in-depth display of paintings we have ever staged. The paintings are hung by collection to illustrate genres, schools and tastes which led to their inclusion in the National Maritime Museum as a collective visual expression of Britain's maritime identity.

     

  • Freeze Frame

    Exhibition

    Recurring event

    To coincide with International Polar Year, the National Maritime Museum displays some of the earliest photographs of the Arctic, its landscape and people, in a new temporary exhibition in the Queen's House. Freeze Frame will showcase a selection of prints taken from the Museum's world-class historic photographs collection. The exhibition will look at two expeditions to the Arctic under Captain Edward Inglefield in 1854, and Captain George Nares in 1875-76. Both expeditions used photographic processes that were in their infancy, having been announced to the public only a few years before. Both processes involved a significant amount of bulky equipment and chemicals in order to develop the negatives. However, the technique used by Nares had a shorter exposure time allowing more photographs of the expedition activities to be recorded.

     

  • Jeremy Millar: Given

    Exhibition

    28 Sep 2009 to 17 Jan 2010

    Jeremy Millar explores how events in history resonate with our understanding and experience of the present. His artistic practice frequently takes as its starting point important events in the history of ideas to develop a poetic enquiry within a fictional, and often scholarly, framework and sensibility. Given presents in the historic Queen's House a series of newly-commissioned artworks that take as their starting point a very particular journey.

     

  • Queen's House

    Special event

    Recurring event

    The Queen's House was designed by Inigo Jones in 1616 and provides a setting for a variety of corporate events.

     
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