Museums & galleries · Tower Hamlets
Whitechapel Art Gallery
Whitechapel Art Gallery is a listed building in Tower Hamlets, London, on the National Heritage List for England at Grade II*, the middle grade, for particularly important buildings of more than special interest. It was first listed in 1973.
Good for
- Rainy day — Somewhere with an indoor collection to spend an afternoon in. It is in this corpus as listed at Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England; a museum or gallery.
These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.
Sources & verification
- coordinates.latitude
- National Heritage List for England - listed building points (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Point published against this record by Historic England.
- coordinates.longitude
- National Heritage List for England - listed building points (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- name
- National Heritage List for England - listed building points (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- The register's own title for this record is "Whitechapel Art Gallery"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of listing scope and case, not a rename.
- externalIds.sourceRecordId
- National Heritage List for England - listed building points (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- The identifier Historic England gives this record in National Heritage List for England - listed building points. Read from the response, never transcribed.
- category
- National Heritage List for England - listed building points (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "Grade II* listed building".
- neighborhoodId
- National Heritage List for England - listed building points (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- London borough, by point-in-polygon against ons boundaries.
Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.
Created from record 1065820 of National Heritage List for England - listed building points, retrieved 2026-09-08.
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