Das McMaster Museum of Art ist ein Kunstmuseum im kanadischen Hamilton. Es beherbergt die Kunstsammlungen der McMaster University mit mehr als 6.000 Objekten. Schwerpunkte sind Gemälde des französischen Impressionismus und Spätimpressionismus, grafische Arbeiten des deutschen Expressionismus, sowie Kunstwerke kanadischer Künstler. Darüber hinaus sammelt das Museum Arbeiten zeitgenössischer Künstler und verfügt über eine Münzsammlung.
The Mattatuck Museum is a cultural institution based in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. The museum's displays include the history, industries and culture of Waterbury and the Central Naugatuck Valley area, and art, including works about the state's history, people and scenery, and works of artists from Connecticut. The museum also features a collection of 15,000 buttons from around the world.
Die Massachusetts Historical Society ist der älteste Geschichtsverein der Vereinigten Staaten und hat ihren Sitz in Boston im Bundesstaat Massachusetts. Das Gebäude der Society ist seit den 1960er Jahren als National Historic Landmark in das National Register of Historic Places eingetragen.
The Maryland Center for History and Culture ), founded on March 1, 1844, is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage". The MCHC has a museum, library, holds educational programs, and publishes scholarly works on Maryland.
Das Märkische Museum liegt im Berliner Ortsteil Mitte. Es ist das Stammmuseum der Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin mit den Themenschwerpunkten Kultur und Geschichte.
Mansfield Museum is a local authority museum run by the council in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. The brainchild of William Edward Baily, a wealthy local collector and natural historian, the museum opened in 1904 after Baily offered his collection and a building, the 'Tin Tabernacle', to Mansfield.
Manchester Jewish Museum occupies the former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester, England. It is a grade II* listed building.The synagogue was completed in 1874 but the building became redundant through the migration of the Jewish population away from the Cheetham area further north to Prestwich and Whitefield.
It re-opened as a museum in March 1984 telling the story of the history of Jewish settlement in Manchester and its community over the last 200 years.
Das Museumsquartier St. Annen befindet sich in den Gebäuden des ehemaligen St.-Annen-Klosters in Lübeck. Es wurde 1915 begründet und ist einer der Standorte der Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck die Lübecker Museen. Das Museumsquartier liegt unweit der Aegidienkirche in der St.-Annen-Straße der südöstlichen Lübecker Altstadt neben der Synagoge und umfasst neben dem St. Annen-Museum die Kunsthalle St. Annen und in den Nebengebäuden des ehemaligen Klosters die Verwaltung des Museums.
The Liverpool Blue Coat School is a grammar school in Wavertree, Liverpool, England. It was founded in 1708 by Bryan Blundell and the Reverend Robert Styth as the Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital and was for many years a boys' boarding school before reverting in September 2002 to its original coeducational remit.
The school holds a long-standing academic tradition. Examination results consistently place it top of the national GCSE and A-level tables. In 2016 Blue Coat was ranked as the best school in the country based on GCSE results. In 2015 it was The Sunday Times State School of the Year. The acceptance rate for admissions is around fifteen percent.
In 2004 the school received a government grant of almost £8 million, together with £1 million from its foundation governors, enabling an expansion and redevelopment of its site.
Das Linacre College ist ein College der University of Oxford, dessen Mitglieder Fellows und postgraduierte Studenten sind. Das College ist nach dem Humanisten Thomas Linacre benannt, dem Gründer des Royal College of Physicians.
Am Linacre College studieren rund 400 Studenten, deren Mehrheit aus dem Ausland und dort aus 50 Nationen kommt. Linacre war das erste College in Oxford, das männlichen und weiblichen Studenten auf gleicher Basis zuließ. Auch fehlt eine formelle Trennung zwischen den Fellows und den Studenten. Darüber hinaus war es das erste College, das den Fairtrade-Status erhielt.
Das heutige Linacre College wurde am 1. August 1962 als Linacre House gegründet und erhielt 1965 seinen heutigen Namen. Es war nach Nuffield College und St Antony’s College das dritte College in Oxford, das nur graduierte Studenten zuließ. Zu den Gründungsmitgliedern gehören Isaiah Berlin, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin und John R. Hicks. Am 1. August 1986 wurde Linacre durch Royal Charter zum selbstständigen College innerhalb der Universität Oxford.
University Hospital Lewisham is an acute district general hospital run by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and serving the London Borough of Lewisham. It is now affiliated with King's College London and forms part of the King's Health Partners academic health science centre. It is situated on Lewisham High Street between Lewisham and Catford.
Mississippi's first art museum, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is located in Laurel, Mississippi, United States. It was founded in 1923 in memory of Lauren Eastman Rogers. The building's architect was Rathbone DeBuys of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The museum has an extensive collection of Native American baskets. It also has a selection of American art by Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, and John Singer Sargent. It receives 32,000 visitors a year.
Lamport Hall in Lamport, Northamptonshire is a fine example of a Grade I Listed House. It was developed from a Tudor Manor but is now notable for its classical frontage. The Hall contains an outstanding collection of books paintings and furniture. The building includes The High Room with a magnificent ceiling by William Smith. It also has a library with 16th-century volumes and an early 19th-century cabinet room with Neapolitan cabinets which depict mythological paintings on glass. It is open to the public
Lamport Hall was the home of the Isham family from 1560 to 1976. Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from in the 1840s.
