Das Hiroshima Museum of Art ist ein Kunstmuseum in der japanischen Stadt Hiroshima. Das 1978 eröffnete Haus zeigt Kunstwerke des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Schwerpunkt der Sammlung liegt auf Werken französischer Künstler. Werke japanischer Künstler, die von westlicher Kunst beeinflusst wurden, bilden ein weiteres Sammlungsgebiet.
Das Hill-Stead Museum, häufig auch nur Hill-Stead genannt, ist ein im Stil des Colonial Revival errichtetes Gebäude in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut. Am 17. Juli 1991 wurde es als National Historic Landmark anerkannt und in das National Register of Historic Places aufgenommen.
Das Heckscher Museum of Art ist ein Kunstmuseum in Huntington auf Long Island im Bundesstaat New York.
The Harrow Museum, known as the Headstone Manor & Museum, is the local history museum for the London Borough of Harrow in northwest London, England.
Harrow Arts Centre is a professional arts venue in the London Borough of Harrow. HAC is located in Hatch End, Harrow, North London, in the Elliott Hall and other buildings that were previously part of the Royal Commercial Travellers School. It is the only dedicated performing arts venue in the borough.
Guildford ) is a town in Surrey, England, 27 miles southwest of London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.The town has a population of about 80,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford which had an estimated 147,889 inhabitants in 2018.Guildford has Saxon roots and historians attribute its location to the existence of a gap in the North Downs where the River Wey was forded by the Harrow Way. By AD 978 it was home to an early English Royal Mint. The building of the Wey Navigation and the Basingstoke Canal in the 17th and 18th centuries, respectively, connected Guildford to a network of waterways that aided its prosperity. In the 20th century, the University of Surrey and the Anglican Guildford Cathedral were added.Due to recent development running north from Guildford, and linking to the Woking area, Guildford now officially forms the southwestern tip of the Greater London Built-up Area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics.
Greenwich Heritage Centre was a museum and local history resource centre in Woolwich, south-east London, England. It was established in 2003 by the London Borough of Greenwich and was run from 2014 by the Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust until the centre's closure in July 2018. The museum was based in a historic building in Artillery Square, in the Royal Arsenal complex, which was established in the 17th century as a repository and manufactory of heavy guns, ammunition and other military ware.
The Gibbes Museum of Art, formerly known as the Gibbes Art Gallery, is an art museum in Charleston, South Carolina. Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the museum moved into a new Beaux Arts building at 135 Meeting Street, in the Charleston Historic District, in 1905. The Gibbes houses a premier collection of over 10,000 works of fine art, principally American works, many with a connection to Charleston or the South. The benefactor, James Shoolbred Gibbes, donated $100,000 to the Carolina Arts Association upon his death in 1899 for the "erection of a suitable building for the exhibitions of paintings." Receipt of the money by the city, however, was delayed by a will contest filed by nieces and nephews of Gibbes. Their case was heard in the state court of New York during 1900 and 1901. On December 6, 1901, the New York Supreme Court issued an opinion declaring that the gift to Charleston was valid. Receiving the money in 1903, the Association hired Frank Pierce Milburn to design the gallery. His design included a Tiffany-style dome, Doric columns and pediment capped windows and doors. Milburn completed the drawings of the building in mid-1903, and a drawing of the proposed building appeared in the Charleston Evening Post on June 5, 1903. Notices were published seeking contractors' bids for the work starting in August 1903. In September 1903, H.T. Zacharias was selected as the contractor and received a contract for $73,370 for the building. Zacharias started work on September 28, 1903, removing the remains of the South Carolina Agricultural Hall which had occupied the lot. Although work on the foundations had begun already, a ceremony was held on December 8, 1903, to lay the cornerstone of the building at the northeast corner.The museum formally opened on April 11, 1905. The collection on display on the opening day included more than 300 pictures, many bronzes, and about 200 miniatures in addition to an "instructive collection" of Japanese prints. After closing for an extensive two-year, $13.5 million renovation, the museum reopened to the public on May 28, 2016. In renovating the museum, the development teams took inspiration from the original blueprints discovered in the City of Charleston archives in 2008 to return the building to its 1905 Beaux Arts style layout. The renovation of the first floor features a creative education center that engages the public through classrooms, artist studios, lecture and event spaces, a café and a museum store. The rear reception area opens to the garden, part of Charleston’s historic Gateway Walk founded by the Garden Club of Charleston. Serving as a creative gathering place for the community, the entire ground floor of the museum is admission-free. The newly expanded and renovated galleries on the second and third floors provide a 30 percent increase in gallery space to showcase more than 600 works of art from the permanent collection. State-of-the-art storage facilities feature a closely connected research room to provide ample space for scholars to more easily access and study works from the collection. Observation windows offer visitors a behind-the-scenes view of the work of curators and conservators. The Gibbes’ renowned collection of more than 300 miniature portraits are housed in innovative display cases and open storage cabinetry to allow an up-close view for visitors. The museum's collections include the work of numerous artists with connections to Charleston; among them are Henrietta Johnston, Mary Roberts, Charles Fraser, William Melton Halsey, Ned I.R. Jennings, and Jeremiah Theus. The museum also has photographs by George LaGrange Cook.
The Georgia Museum of Art is an art museum in Athens, Georgia, United States, associated with the University of Georgia . The museum is both an academic museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia. The permanent collection consists of American paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century; American, European and Asian works on paper; the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art; and a strong collection of works by African American artists. It numbers more than 12,000 works, growing every year.The Georgia Museum opened on UGA's North Campus in 1948, in a building that now houses the university president's office, then moved to the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on UGA's East Campus in 1996. In 2011, it completed an extensive expansion and remodeling of its building, paid for entirely with externally raised funds and designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, that has allowed it to display its permanent collection continually. The museum offers programming for patrons of all ages, from child to senior citizen, as well as free admission to the public for all exhibitions. It organizes its own exhibitions in-house, creates traveling exhibitions for other museums and galleries and plays host to traveling exhibitions from around the country and the globe. The museum strives, most of all, to fulfill the legacy of its founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook, and provide art for everyone, removing barriers to accessibility and seeking to foster an open, educational and inspiring environment for students, scholars and the general public. The foundation of the museum's collection, the Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, a collection of 100 American paintings, was donated to UGA in 1945 by Holbrook in memory of his first wife. Included in this collection are works by such luminaries as Frank Weston Benson, William Merritt Chase, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, and Theodore Robinson.
Der Palazzo Reale ist ein historischer Palast in der italienischen Stadt Genua. Seine Räumlichkeiten werden heute als Kunstgalerie genutzt. Mit seiner angrenzenden Parkanlage wird er als eines der eindrucksvollsten Museen der Stadt angesehen. Das Gebäude befindet sich in der Via Balbi, unweit des Universitätssitzes und des Bahnhofs Genova Principe. Die Architektur des Palastes geht in das 16.–17. Jahrhundert zurück und hat seine historischen Schätze, angefangen bei den Fresken, über die Stuckarbeiten, bis zu den Gemälden und dem Mobiliar jener Zeit bewahrt.
Das Grand Trianon oder auch Große Trianon ist ein Lustschloss im Park des Schlosses von Versailles bei Paris in Frankreich, das König Ludwig XIV. nach den Plänen des Architekten Jules Hardouin-Mansart als privaten Rückzugsort errichten ließ.
Fyvie Castle ist eine Burg in der Gemeinde Fyvie in der Nähe von Turriff, Aberdeenshire in Schottland. Sie gehörte zu einer ganzen Kette königlicher Anlagen, die zur Sicherung der Grenzen der mittelalterlichen Monarchien in Schottland errichtet worden sind. Das Land war königlicher Jagdbesitz, die Bezeichnung fyvie stammt aus dem Gälischen und bedeutet „Hirschhügel“. Über die Jahrhunderte haben dann wechselnde Besitzer die Burg immer wieder erweitert, so dass heute fünf aneinander gebaute Wohntürme zusammen mit den Nebengebäuden den Anschein einer Palastanlage erwecken.
Die Fine Art Society ist eine der weltweit ältesten Kunstgalerien mit Räumlichkeiten in London und Edinburgh. Das Unternehmen hat sich auf die britische Kunst und Design aus dem 17. bis 21. Jahrhundert spezialisiert und hat seit der Gründung seinen Sitz in der New Bond Street 148 in London. Die Gesellschaft wurde 1876 gegründet und war im 19. Jahrhundert Vorreiter in der Idee einer Ein-Mann-Ausstellung. Die Aufsehen erregendste dieser Art war 1883 die Ausstellung von James McNeill Whistlers venezianischen Radierungen mit dem Titel An Arrangement in White and Yellow. Die Zuwendung, die Whistler durch diese Ausstellung nach der Auseinandersetzung mit Kunstkritiker John Ruskin erhielt, glich die Fine Art Society aus, indem sie Ruskin bei der Ausstellung seiner Sammlung von Turner-Aquarellen finanziell unterstützte. 1888 stellten Thomas Cooper Gotch, William Ayerst Ingram und Alfred East gemeinsam ihre Werke aus. Die Galerie in der New Bond Street wurde 2004 bis 2005 komplett renoviert und um die New Gallery ergänzt, in der Arbeiten von zeitgenössischen Künstlern ausgestellt werden. Die Bourne Fine Art in Edinburgh wurde im Jahr 1978 eingerichtet und ist die führende Galerie in schottischer Kunst von 1650 bis zur Gegenwart. Beide Galerien kombinieren ihre Dauerausstellungen mit wechselnden Ausstellungen und Messen in Dubai, New York City, Hongkong, Maastricht und London. Die Fine Art Society leistete durch entsprechende Ausstellungen einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Wiederbelebung des Interesses an den Anfängen des New English Art Clubs, der Glasgow School, der Birmingham Group, der Scottish Colourists, des Ästhetizismus, des Arts and Crafts Movements, des Designs der Zwischenkriegszeit und der Nachkriegszeit. Heute verkauft die Fine Art Society Werke aus früheren Ausstellungen als Secondhand Art und fördert neue Richtungen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst.
Erddig Hall is a Grade-I listed National Trust property in Wrexham, Wales. Located 2 miles south of Wrexham town centre, it comprises a country house built during the 17th and 18th centuries amidst a 1,900 acre estate, which includes a 1,200-acre landscaped pleasure park and the earthworks of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle. Erddig is one of the finest stately homes in the United Kingdom. It is particularly celebrated as 'the most evocative Upstairs Downstairs house in Britain' due to the well-rounded view it presents of the lifestyles of all of its occupants, family and staff. The eccentric Yorke family had an unusual relationship with their staff and celebrated their servants in a large and unique collection of portraits and poems. This collection, coupled with well-preserved servants' rooms and an authentic laundry, bake house, sawmill, and smithy, provides an unparalleled view of how 18th to 20th century servants lived.The state rooms contain fine furniture, textiles and wallpapers and the fully restored walled garden is one of the most important surviving 18th century gardens in Britain.In 2003, Erddig was voted by readers of the Radio Times and viewers of the Channel 5 television series Britain's Finest Stately Homes as "Britain's second finest". In September 2007 it was voted the UK's "favourite Historic House" and the "8th most popular historic site" in the UK by Britain's Best.
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane , besser bekannt unter dem Namen The Hugh Lane Gallery, ist ein Museum in Dublin, Republik Irland. Es befindet sich in dem von Sir William Chambers entworfenen Charlemont House nördlich des Parnell Square und war ursprünglich das Stadthaus von James Caulfeild, 1. Earl von Charlemont.
Drum Castle ist eine Burg nahe Drumoak in Aberdeenshire, Schottland. Sie war über Jahrhunderte hinweg Sitz des Clan Irvine. Der Ortsname „Drum“ leitet sich vom gälischen druim ab. Die Burg gehört zum National Trust for Scotland und ist während des Sommers für Besucher geöffnet. Die Kapelle, der Speisesaal und das Anwesen können für Hochzeiten und Firmenfeiern gemietet werden. Eine Vielzahl an lokalen Veranstaltungen wie Oldtimerrennen und musikalische Feste findet hier statt. In der Burg befinden sich ein kleiner Laden und eine Teestube. Der Turm von Drum Castle gilt als der älteste Wohnturm Schottlands. Umgeben wird die Burg von Gärten aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, inklusive eines Rosengartens und eines Arboretums, das Bäume aus allen Regionen des britischen Weltreichs aus dem 18. Jahrhundert enthält. Zur Burg gehört außerdem eine im 15. Jahrhundert errichtete und im 18. Jahrhundert umfangreich erneuerte Kapelle.
Das Darwin College ist ein College der University of Cambridge und beheimatet ungefähr 650 Studenten und 65 Lehrende. Das College ist nach einer der berühmtesten Familien von Cambridge benannt – der von Charles Darwin. Im College leben zwischen 600 und 700 Studenten mit mehr als 70 Nationalitäten. Die meisten Studenten absolvieren ein PhD- oder M.Phil.-Studium an einer Fakultät der University of Cambridge.
