National Gallery in London

One of the most popular and most visited museums, in terms of number of people is the National Gallery London. It is home to more than 2,300 paintings that can be traced back to the mid-13th century to the 1900s. The National Gallery London was founded in the year 1824, and houses masterpieces by artists such as Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Gainsborough, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Turner, Cezanne, Renoir and Raphael, among several others. It is an exempt charity, because of which there are no entry tickets to the National Gallery London. It was established when the British Government bought nearly 40 paintings from the family members of John Angerstein who was a patron of arts, in the year 1824. He had a huge collection of paintings by several masters of art, and after he passed away, his heirs decided to sell the paintings to save the rest of his estate.