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ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Masterpiece Tour offers UK museums, galleries and art centres the opportunity to partner with the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â, collaborating to display major works from the collection across the UK.
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ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Masterpiece Tour 2025-27 will begin in autumn 2025 with the display of Claude Monet's The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil, 1872.
The four partner organisations will work collaboratively with the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â, a community partner and each other to develop the Masterpiece Tour to display a different ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â painting each year, for three years.
, 20 September 2025 – 11 January 2026
17 January 2026 – 25 March 2026
28 March 2026 – 13 June 2026
, Hull 19 June 2026 – 13 September 2026
Specialist insurer, Hiscox, is proud to support
ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â 2025–27 Masterpiece Tour
Between 2021–23 the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â partnered with The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven; Carmarthenshire County Museum and Oriel Davies, Newtown, Powys to display one different masterpiece from our collection.
From 2021, for the first time in the Masterpiece Tour’s history, the partner venues were selected for a three-year period and the painting for 2021 and 2023 were chosen jointly by the partners and the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â.
The third masterpiece to tour was Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio’s 'Tobias and the Angel'.
2 December 2022 – 5 March 2023
, Whitehaven 10 March – 4 June 2023
,Ìý8 September 2023 – 7 January 2024
Between 2021–23 the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â partnered with The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven; Carmarthenshire County Museum and Oriel Davies, Newtown, Powys to display one different masterpiece from our collection each year.
From 2021, for the first time in the Masterpiece Tour’s history, the partner venues were selected for a three-year period and the painting for 2021 and 2023 was chosen jointly by the partners and the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â.
The second masterpiece to tour was Rembrandt's Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume.
12 March – 26 June 2022
, Whitehaven 24 September – 8 January 2023
14 January – 23 April 2023
Between 2021–23 the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â partnered with The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven; Carmarthenshire County Museum and Oriel Davies, Newtown, Powys to display one different masterpiece from our collection each year.
From 2021, for the first time in the Masterpiece Tour’s history, the partner venues were selected for a three-year period and the painting for 2021 and 2023 were chosen jointly by the partners and the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â.
The first masterpiece to tour was Chardin’s The House of Cards.
10 July – 25 September 2021
, Whitehaven 1 October – 23 January 2022
31 January – 1 May 2022
The postponed ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Masterpiece Tour 2020 saw Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s 'Hélène Rouart in her Father's Study', travel to the following venues:
18 September 2021 – 8 January 2022
Ìý14 May – 3 September 2022
Ìý10 October – 17 December 2022
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Nicolas Poussin’s 'The Triumph of Pan’, one the French master’s most intricate compositions, toured the UK in 2019–20 as part of the Masterpiece Tour. It travelled to the following venues:
11 April – 7 July 2019
12 July – 22 September 2019
5 October 2019 – 5 January 2020
This opportunity to bring three hugely popular works to the public’s doorstep was made possible by the generous support of Christie’s.
Hans Holbein the Younger’s A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, a much-loved work from the ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Collection, toured the UK in 2018–19 as part of the Masterpiece Tour. It travelled to the following venues:
12 January – 22 April 2018
4 May – 15 July 2018
13 October 2018 – 6 January 2019
This opportunity to bring three hugely popular works to the public’s doorstep was made possible by the generous support of Christie’s.
From north to south, Rembrandt's Self Portrait at the Age of 63 , was displayed in Northern Ireland followed by Cumbria and the west country. It travelled to the following venues:
15 January – 13 March 2016
19 March – 15 May 2016
21 May – 17 July 2016
In 2015, the Masterpiece Tour saw Canaletto's A Regatta on the Grand Canal tour the UK. It travelled to the following venues:
7 March – 3 May 2015
9 May – 21 June 2015
11 July – 13 September 2015
Manet's intriguing The Execution of Maximilian toured the UK in some of the earliest displays. It travelled to the following venues:
17 January - 16 March 2014
22 March - 18 May 2014
27 September - 6 December 2014
