The National Portrait Gallery has launched its archive catalogue on the web (http://archivecatalogue.npg.org.uk/), as a result of the two-year project which aim was to catalogue unseen material. This reveals over 15 000 documents in all media types: letters, x-rays, videos, photographs, posters, press-cuttings, minutes and reports. Stories about the Gallery's activities since it was founded in 1856 are indexed on the website and accessible with an advanced search tool. It includes records on acquiring, conserving and displaying portraits, organising and staging exhibitions and constructing, managing and developing the building. Approximately one third of the Gallery's Archive has been catalogued: records continue to be added on a regular basis.

While the new online facility is a catalogue of the Archive and not its entire contents, visitors can make an appointment to see any of the documents listed at the Gallery's Heinz Archive and Library on www.npg.org.uk/research/archive/directions.php