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title: What an AI agent reads on National Gallery · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/nationalgallery.org.uk/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on National Gallery

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [nationalgallery.org.uk](http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

7,103

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

2

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: The National Gallery, London · language en-GB. First 1,800 of 7,103 characters:

```
The National Gallery, London Skip to main content My basket Sign in My basket My account Sign out Home Visit us Exhibitions and events Art and artists Learning Research Membership Support us Shop Sign in My account Sign out () Visit us Plan your visit Floorplans Access Family activities Eat and drink Across the UK Virtual Gallery Exhibitions and events What's on now Exhibitions Events Art and artists Explore the collection Highlights from the collection Latest arrivals Picture of the month Contemporary residencies Latest stories Learning About Learning Primary schools Secondary schools SEND programme Courses The Roden Centre for Creative Learning Research About research Research events Our researchers Library and Archive Membership Buy Membership Supporters' House Renew or upgrade Gift Memberships Support us Support us Donate today Leave a legacy Become a Patron Individuals, Trusts and Foundations Corporate support Search Area to search Entire website Paintings Artists Events Enter your search text The National Gallery, London Details from Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782 Bringing people and paintings together Admission free, donations welcome Open daily: 10am - 6pm Friday lates until 9pm Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN Plan your visit Need more assistance? Visit our access page Detail from Jan van Eyck, 'Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)', 1433. The National Gallery, London Detail from Jan van Eyck, 'Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?)', 1433. The National Gallery, London Van Eyck: The Portraits Booking now open Jan van Eyck transformed painting forever. Explore this mysterious and revolutionary pioneer who propelled art into a new era with unrivalled realism and bold technique.For the first time in history, see all of van
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/van-eyck-the-portraits](https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/van-eyck-the-portraits) | booking | the business's own site |
| [my.nationalgallery.org.uk/events?k=vaneyck&startdate=2026-11-01](https://my.nationalgallery.org.uk/events?k=vaneyck&startdate=2026-11-01) | booking | the business's own site |
| [shop.nationalgallery.org.uk/van-eyck-the-portraits-1058041.html](https://shop.nationalgallery.org.uk/van-eyck-the-portraits-1058041.html) | ordering | the business's own site |

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```