Redeveloped entrance will point towards Soho, despite wishes of a Victorian donor The National Portrait Gallery is to get a new main entrance more than a century after a rich donor insisted it should not point north towards the filth of Soho and Covent Garden. The entrance is part of a £35.5m redevelopment that is intended to make the gallery more welcoming and less crowded and to better display contemporary crowd pleasers such as Sam Taylor-Johnson's video of David Beckham sleeping.
Redeveloped entrance will point towards Soho, despite wishes of a Victorian donor The National Portrait Gallery is to get a new main entrance more than a century after a rich donor insisted it should not point north towards the filth of Soho and Covent Garden. The entrance is part of a £35.5m redevelopment that is intended to make the gallery more welcoming and less crowded and to better display contemporary crowd pleasers such as Sam Taylor-Johnson's video of David Beckham sleeping.
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