National Gallery
With over five million visitors each year the National Gallery is one of the most popular art museums in the world. Founded in 1824, the collection was housed in various locations before finding its permanent home in London’s Trafalgar Square in 1837. Only the façade of the original building designed by William Wilkins remains as its been constantly extended and adapted over the years.
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Trafalgar Square Twilight Panorama
Trafalgar Square at twilight is one of London’s defining views. This high-resolution panorama captures the moment the lights come on across the square: Nelson’s Column and the Landseer lions illuminated against a darkening sky, the fountains catching the last of the day, and the grand facades of the National Gallery, Canada House and South Africa…
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The Birds, Trafalgar Square
Pigeons have enormous fields of vision – they can see 340-degrees around without moving, thanks to their side-mounted eyes. The peripheral vision of each eye is so great that the two visual fields overlap, giving the pigeon a binocular field of 24-degrees when it looks straight ahead. Trafalgar square celebrates the famous naval victory at…