The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace Venue: Venue The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace South Front, Buckingham Gate, London SW1A 1AA. Access: 14 March, 2008 - 26 April, 2009. Daily 10am-5.30pm. Last admission 4.30pm. Closed 6 April, 25/26 December. Wheelchair accessible. Tickets: Adult 8, (Concessions). Tickets are timed. Entry every 15 minutes. London Transport: Nearest Tube. Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly Line), Victoria Rail Terminal, (Victoria, Circle and District Lines). Burlington Bertie's Accommodation Choice: Rubens Hotel 39 Buckingham Palace Road, SW1W 0PS Rubens offers 4-star luxury in traditional Edwardian styling just yards from the entrance to Buckingham Palace. Its Old Masters and Library Restaurants offer award winning traditional English fare and vegetarian dishes. The 1911 building has an interesting history. Build originally to house debutantes from the Shires residing in London for their Coming-Out season and presentation at Court, (a royal tradition that lasted until the 1950's), it became the headquarters of General Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister in exile, during World War II. Now upgraded and sumptuously refurnished by Red Carnation its new owners, the Rubens is once again increasingly popular with visitors and dignitaries attending court at Buckingham Palace. Find Another Hotel

The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery. 14 March - 28 September 2008

This extraordinary exhibition illustrates the breadth of interest in natural history evidenced by British monarchs since Stuart times. Selected from the priceless collections of the Royal Library housed at Windsor Castle, it has been mounted in collaboration with Britain's most distinguished naturalist, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. British monarchs have been avid collectors of natural history illustration and this Royal Collection exhibition displays the works of four artists from different eras; Leonardo da Vinci and antiquarian scientist Cassiano dal Pozzo from Renaissance Italy; the 17th century English gardener, botanist and illustrator Alexander Marshal; Maria Sibylla Merian, the 17th century German naturalist and illustrator of butterflies and insects; and Mark Catesby, the 18th century English collector and illustrator of American and European flora and fauna. Such diverse figures who shared a passion for enquiry and a fascination with the beautiful and bizarre in nature, did much to much to shape our knowledge of the world around us during the great Age of Discovery. Their work and illustrations were eagerly collected by succeeding monarchs at a time when new species were being discovered around the world in ever increasing numbers. Many of the plants and animals illustrated were then barely known in Europe. Today some are commonplace. Others are extinct.

Treasures from the Royal Collection. 14 March - 28 September 2008

This fascinating exhibition of art, artifacts and royal jewels has been brought together from the royal residences and palaces across the UK. Highlights include paintings by Rembrandt, Canaletto and Winterhalter, spectacular tiaras and jewels, Russian Faberg pieces, as well as furniture, sculpture, arms and armour, and porcelain some of which is still used for ceremonial occasions today.

Masters of Flemish Painting. 17 October 2008 - 26 April 2009

This first ever exhibition of the finest Flemish paintings in the Royal Collection opened to great acclaim at The Queen's Gallery, Edinburgh in 2007. Comprising 51 works created during the period 1500-1665 in the Southern (Spanish-ruled) Netherlands, it includes masterpieces by Hans Memling, Van Dyck and Teniers and a wonderful group of landscapes by Jan Brueghel and Rubens depicting the blessings of harmony and fertility. Pieter Bruegel's Massacre of the Innocents forms a powerful centrepiece to the exhibition. faunaMark Catesby

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