Hallwyl Museum is a Swedish national museum housed in the historical Hallwyl House in central Stockholm located on 4, Hamngatan facing Berzelii Park. The house once belonged to the Count and Countess von Hallwyl, but was donated to the Swedish state in 1920 to eventually become a museum. In 1938, the museum was officially opened.
Gunby Hall is a country house in Gunby, near Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, England, reached by a half mile long private drive. The Estate comprises the 42-room Gunby Hall, listed Grade I, a clocktower, listed Grade II* and a carriage house and stable block which are listed Grade II. In 1944 the trustees of the Gunby Hall Estate, Lady Montgomery-Massingberd, Major Norman Leith-Hay-Clarke and Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd, gave the house to the National Trust together with its contents and some 1,500 acres of land.Gunby Hall is currently leased from the National Trust with a requirement to open the Hall's State Rooms and Gardens to the public.
Das burgähnliche Schloss Gripsholm am See Mälaren im schwedischen Mariefred in der Gemeinde Strängnäs wurde 1537 von Gustav I. Wasa erbaut – an der Stelle einer Burg aus dem Jahr 1380. Im Schloss ist heute die Staatliche Porträtsammlung mit einer der umfangreichsten Sammlungen von Porträtzeichnungen untergebracht. Sie umfasst mehr als 2000 Gemälde. Das Schloss ist seit 1935 als Byggnadsminne registriert und auch schwedisches Reichsinteresse.Im deutschen Sprachraum wurde es vor allem durch Kurt Tucholskys Roman Schloß Gripsholm bekannt.
Das Green Templeton College ist ein konstituierendes College der University of Oxford in England. Es wurde am 1. Oktober 2008 gegründet und besteht aus den Mitgliedern des Green College und des Templeton College. Das College befindet sich am früheren Standort des Green College in North Oxford. In seiner Mitte befindet sich ein architektonisch einladendes und prächtiges Gebäude aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, das Radcliffe Observatory, welches nach dem Vorbild des antiken Turm der Winde in Athen gestaltet wurde.
Grantham Museum is located at St Peter's Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England in the building provided for it in 1926. The building also housed the public library, and was partly funded by the Carnegie UK Trust which was continuing Andrew Carnegie's project of building libraries across the United Kingdom. Grantham's library is now located in the Isaac Newton Centre, and the museum occupies the whole of the 1926 building. The idea of a museum can be traced back to meetings of the Grantham Scientific society in the 1890s. The basis of the collection is material provided by Henry Preston, the first Curator and Founder, and twentieth century additions included material about Sir Isaac Newton, Edith Smith and Margaret Thatcher. There is also material about the Dambusters Raid. The Museum hosts a variety of exhibitions during the year. The museum is currently managed by the Grantham Community Heritage Association . This charity was formed in 2011 to take over the management of the museum from Lincolnshire County Council with a view to reopening the facility for the Queen's Jubilee in June 2012. In 2013, a few months before the death of Margaret Thatcher, the GCHA announced plans to raise funds to obtain a statue of the former prime minister.
The Texas Governor's Mansion, is a historic home for the Governor of Texas in downtown Austin, Texas. Designed by prominent architect Abner Cook, it was built in 1854 and has been the home of every governor since 1856. Governor Greg Abbott and First Lady Cecilia Phalen Abbott are the current residents. On June 8, 2008, while midway through a major renovation, the mansion was badly damaged by an arson fire started with a Molotov cocktail.
The Gordon Highlanders Museum is based in Aberdeen, Scotland and celebrates the story of the Gordon Highlanders regiment, which originated as the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1794, became the Gordon Highlanders in 1881 and was then amalgamated into a new larger unit of the British Army in 1994. It is a 5-star Scottish Tourist Board attraction, as of 2019, the only one in Aberdeen.
Gladstone's Land is a surviving 17th-century high-tenement house situated in the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has been restored and furnished by the National Trust for Scotland, and is operated as a popular tourist attraction. The "Land" was originally built in 1550, but was bought and redeveloped in 1617 by a prosperous Edinburgh merchant and burgess, Thomas Gledstanes, and his wife, Bessie Cunningham. The work was completed in 1620. Its prominent siting and the extent of its accommodation mark out the affluence of its mercantile owner. However, not only did Gledstanes reside there, he let out parts of the building to an assortment of tenants of different social classes . Thus the restored building allows an insight into varieties of Edinburgh life of the period. The cramped conditions of the Old Town, and the physical size of the lot, meant that the house could only be extended in depth or in height. As a result, the house is six storeys tall.In 1934, the building was condemned and scheduled for demolition, until it was rescued by the National Trust for Scotland. Under the auspices of the Trust, restoration of the building was carried out by the architect, Sir Frank Mears, in consultation with the Ancient Monuments Department of the Ministry of Works in Edinburgh. Original renaissance painted ceilings were uncovered in the process. Today the restored premises offer a glimpse of 17th-century life, with open fires, lack of running water, and period decoration and furniture. At ground level, there is an arcade frontage and reconstructed shop booth, complete with replicas of 17th-century wares. This would originally have provided shelter for the merchant's customers. On the left of the building, a curved stone forestair with iron railings leads from the street to a door at 1st floor level. The sign above the entrance to the building displays the date 1617 and a gilt-copper hawk with outstretched wings. Although not an original feature, the significance of this is that the name "Gledstanes" is derived from the Scots word "gled" meaning a kite or hawk.By the late-18th century, Edinburgh's Old Town was no longer a fashionable address. Increasing pressures from population growth encouraged the flight of the affluent from cramped conditions to the developing New Town. Today, visitors to the city can contrast Gladstone's Land to the Trust's restored example of a New Town residence, The Georgian House, at No. 7 Charlotte Square.
Gilbert White FRS war ein englischer Pfarrer, Naturforscher und Ornithologe. Er blieb sein Leben lang ein unverheirateter Kaplan und ist bekannt für sein Buch The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne . Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „G. White“. Er wuchs im Vikariat seines Großvaters in Selborne in den South Downs nördlich des heutigen South Downs National Park) auf, besuchte die Holy Ghost School und erhielt Privatunterricht bei einem Tutor in Basingstoke, bevor er am Oriel College der Universität Oxford studierte. 1746 wurde er Diakon und 1749 wurde er ordiniert. Er war dann Pfarrer in Hampshire und Wiltshire, darunter viermal in Selborne selbst und unter anderem in den Nachbargemeinden Newton Valence und Farringdon . 1752/53 war er Junior Proctor in Oxford und Dekan des Oriel College. 1757 wurde er ständiger Kurat von Moreton Pinkney in Northamptonshire . Nach dem Tod seines Vaters 1758 zog er auf den Familiensitz The Wakes in Selborne, das er 1763 erbte. 1784 wurde er das vierte Mal Kurat in Selborne, was er bis zu seinem Tod blieb . Er führte ein wissenschaftliches Tagebuch über 25 Jahre von 1768 bis 1793, die die Basis seines Buchs bildeten. Seine Naturgeschichte von Selborne ist in Form von Briefen an den Zoologen Thomas Pennant und den Anwalt und Mitglied der Royal Society Daines Barrington verfasst . Das Buch war und ist bis heute ein Bestseller und begründete ein eigenes Genre von Naturschriftstellern. Seine Schwester Anne war mit dem Meteorologen Thomas Barker verheiratet. In Whites Aufzeichnungen finden sich auch Hinweise für die Auswirkungen der Ausbrüche an der Laki-Spalte auf Island 1783/84. Sein Familiensitz The Wakes ist heute Museum.
Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen
Die Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen am Seminar für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Göttingen ist eine Sammlung von Gemälden, Grafiken und Skulpturen. Sie ist die älteste explizit als Lehrsammlung angelegte universitäre Kunstsammlung Deutschlands.
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Kassel)
Die Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel ist eine zur Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel gehörende Sammlung und im Schloss Wilhelmshöhe.
Das Stadtpalais Liechtenstein ist ein Palais im 1. Wiener Gemeindebezirk, Innere Stadt, unweit der kaiserlichen Hofburg. Es ist das Majoratshaus der Fürsten von Liechtenstein und befindet sich nach wie vor im Besitz des Fürstenhauses Liechtenstein. Das Gebäude gilt als erstes bedeutendes hochbarockes Bauwerk in Wien. Das Palais wurde sehr aufwändig restauriert und am 9. April 2013 von Fürst Hans Adam II. in Anwesenheit von Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer eröffnet. Es ist mit Kunstwerken aus den Fürstlichen Sammlungen ausgestattet und steht seit Mai 2013 an jedem zweiten Freitag zur Besichtigung bei Führungen sowie zur Nutzung durch Veranstaltungen bereit.
Die Villa Medici von Pratolino liegt in der Gemeinde Vaglia, Via Fiorentina 276, Metropolitanstadt Florenz, Region Toskana, Italien.
Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art is an art gallery in Turin, Italy, founded in 1891-1895 and sited at 31 via Magenta 31. With the MAO , Palazzo Madama e Casaforte degli Acaja , the Borgo and the Rocca medioevali, it forms part of the Fondazione Torino Musei. The lower rooms house important reviews and a large collection of video art. It houses the city's permanent collections of 19th and 20th century art, which consist of over 47,000 paintings, sculptures, art installations and pieces of video art. Artists represented include Antonio Canova, Giovanni Fattori, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Antonio Mancini, Giacomo Balla, Paul Klee, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giorgio De Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Nino Franchina and Domenico Valinotti.
The Palazzo Chigi-Saracini is a Gothic urban palace on the Via di Città in the Terzo di Città in central Siena, Tuscany, Italy. In 2014 it housed the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. It was built by the Marescotti family in the 12th century. It was the house of Count Galgano Lucarini Saracini and then it became property of Fabio Chigi Lucarini Saracini. The palace is described as a "Gothic beauty with a curved facade and back courtyard."
Modern Gallery is a museum in Zagreb, Croatia that holds the most important and comprehensive collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings by 19th and 20th century Croatian artists. The collection numbers around 10,000 works of art, housed since 1934 in the historic Vranyczany Palace in the centre of Zagreb, overlooking the Zrinjevac Park. A secondary gallery is the Josip Račić Studio at Margaretska 3.
Gairloch Museum is an independent museum in the Wester Ross region of Scotland. The museum is located in the Highland village of Gairloch, in Achtercairn. The museum was set up in 1977 by the Gairloch Parish Branch of the Ross & Cromarty Heritage Society. This would later become the Gairloch & District Heritage Society and then the Gairloch & District Heritage Company Ltd. They applied and were successful in converting part of the existing farm steading in Achtercairn to form a heritage museum and clubs rooms for members during the winter months for lectures, films etc. The year later they applied and were successful in converting the second wing of farm steading to extend the museum as the current building was too small to house the exhibits. The library extension was added in 1987 and an extension for the Rudha Reidh lighthouse lens in 1988. The museum was created due to concern of possible damage to the growing collection of artefacts that had been donated by local people such as the Pictish Stone and thus they investigated means to protect it. The Company wanted to provide a wet weather facility for tourists for them to appreciate aspects of Gairloch’s past. Members of the Company were interested in displaying objects relating to archaeology, farming, fishing, and domestic utensils etc, those that showed the history of the West Coast. In 2017 the board of Gairloch Heritage Museum announced that they obtained a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund to transform a nearby nuclear bunker into a new museum for Gairloch. The museum board and volunteers raised £2.4 million to complete the project. The newly rebranded Gairloch Museum was officially opened on 9 July 2019 by the Princess Royal. The museum is housed in the former Gairloch Roads Depot, which was previously built as an anti-aircraft operations room during the Cold War. The building also served as an Emergency Operations Room in the 1980s and the museum incorporates features of that period, including the heavy blast doors.
