Kettle’s Yard

Cambridge

Kettle’s Yard ist eine Galerie und ein Museum in Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich.

Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Exeter

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeology, and geology. Altogether the museum holds over one million objects, of which a small percentage is on permanent public display. It is a 'Major Partner Museum' under the Arts Council England administered programme of strategic investment, which means RAMM receives funding to develop its services. RAMM receives this funding in partnership with Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery. Previously they were described as 'hub museums' under the 'Renaissance' Programme for regional museums which operated between 2002–11 and funded by the now defunct Museums Libraries & Archives Council . Founded in 1868, the museum is housed in a Gothic Revival building of local New Red Sandstone that has undergone several extensions during its history; most recently, the museum was re-opened on 15 December 2011 after a redevelopment lasting four years and costing £24M. Since its re-opening the museum has received several awards.

Hereford Museum and Art Gallery

Hereford

The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum in the cathedral city of Hereford, Herefordshire, England.The museum is housed in a Victorian Gothic building. Through the generosity of James Rankin, President of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, it was opened as a free library and museum on 8 October 1874 and has since exhibited artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.

English Heritage

London

English Heritage ist eine eingetragene Wohltätigkeitsorganisation , die die in Staatsbesitz befindlichen Denkmäler und archäologischen Stätten Englands verwaltet. Die Organisation betreut über 400 historisch wertvolle Objekte wie beispielsweise Stonehenge. Die Mitgliedschaft eröffnet die Möglichkeit, diese Objekte kostenlos bzw. mit ermäßigtem Eintritt zu besichtigen. In anderen Teilen Großbritanniens existieren ähnliche Organisationen, z. B. Historic Scotland in Schottland oder Cadw in Wales. Von ihrer Gründung 1983 bis zum Jahr 2015 war die Organisation auch die staatliche Denkmalpflege-Behörde , die als Staatsorgan fungiert . Seit 1999 waren English Heritage zudem die mit der Denkmäler-Inventarisierung beauftragte Institution Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England und das Denkmäler-Archiv National Monuments Record angeschlossen. Zum 1. April 2015 wurden diese Funktionen abgespalten und als Historic England konstituiert. Seither ist English Heritage keine Behörde mehr, sondern eine registered charity, mit dem offiziellen Titel English Heritage Trust.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Die Manchester Art Gallery ist ein öffentliches Kunstmuseum in Manchester. Sie ging aus der 1823 begründeten Royal Manchester Institution hervor und befindet sich in drei miteinander verbundenen Gebäuden im Stadtzentrum. Die Sammlung umfasst überwiegend europäische Kunst mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Werke englischer Künstler. Darüber hinaus gibt es eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Kunsthandwerk. Zudem verfügt das Museum über zahlreiche Exponate zur Modegeschichte, die im südlich der Stadt gelegenen Herrenhaus Platt Hall ausgestellt werden.

The Beverley Treasure House

Beverley

The Treasure House is a cultural centre operated by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The centre acts as the main hub for heritage and information services, and contains the East Riding Archives and Local Studies, the Beverley Library, a Museum and the Beverley Art Gallery. The building also contains a coffee lounge and gift shop. The top floor, known as 'The Tower', serves as an elevated sightseeing platform, showcasing 360 degree views of the Beverley Minster and the town of Beverley.

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Sunderland

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight. The exhibit was discovered in Eppleton quarry. The museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.It was established in 1846, in the Athenaeum Building on Fawcett Street, the first municipally funded museum in the country outside London. The first recorded fine art acquisition was commissioned by the Sunderland Corporation, a painting of the opening of the new South Dock in 1850. This may have been the first time that an artwork was commissioned by a town council.In 1879, the Museum moved to a new larger building next to Mowbray Park including a library and winter garden based on the model of the Crystal Palace. U.S. President Ulysses Grant was in attendance at the laying of the foundation stone by Alderman Samuel Storey in 1877. The building opened in 1879.During World War II, Winter Garden was damaged by a parachute mine in 1941 and later was demolished with a 1960s extension taking its place, but in 2001, a lottery funded refurbishment of the museum created a new Winter Garden extension and improved facilities. The Winter Gardens contain over 2,000 flowers and plants.In 2003, the Museum was recognised as the most attended outside London. The Museum contains a large collection of the locally made Sunderland Lustreware pottery. Other highlights of the Museum are a stuffed Lion which was acquired in 1879, the remains of a walrus brought back from Siberia in the 1880s and the first Nissan car to be made in Sunderland. Also featured are the skeletal remains of a male human being. The library moved in 1995 to the new City Library and Arts Centre on Fawcett Street . The relocation left more space for museum exhibitions. The new City Library Arts Centre also houses the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, renowned as one of the leading forums for emerging artists in the North of England. John Morrison wrote an affectionate memoir of the two and a half years he spent working in the museum as a junior curator, starting about 1918, which appeared in the Australian literary journal Overland in 1968.L.S. Lowry described his discovery of Sunderland in 1960, after which it became his second home: "One day I was travelling south from Tyneside and I realised this was what I had always been looking for." Sunderland Museum, with six works and 30 on long-term loan, have a Lowry collection surpassed only by Salford and Manchester.

Cartwright Hall

Bradford

Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright. The gallery which opened in 1904 initially had a display of artworks loaned from other galleries and private collections until it was able to purchase a permanent collection of Victorian and Edwardian works using money raised by the 1904 Bradford Exhibition.Cartwright Hall stands in Lister Park and enjoys scenic views of the city. Cartwright Hall has been held to represent "Bradford Baroque", a style of architecture typical of Bradford. It is however designed by the same architects as Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , also in the Baroque style.The purpose-built gallery is home to a collection of permanent works, from Old Masters to 20th-century British paintings and sculpture. Cartwright Hall also has a biennial open exhibition and contemporary and historical exhibitions by local, national and international artists. Since the mid 1980s the Bradford museum group has collected works that are associated with the cultural background of many post-war migrants to the Bradford area. Acquisitions include contemporary South Asian Art - Islamic calligraphy, phulkari style illustrated textiles and items of contemporary Sikh art, including a portrait of Guru Nanak.In 1983 Cartwright Hall was briefly used as part of the musical number 'every sperm is sacred' in the Monty Python film, The Meaning of Life.In 2003 an Unreal Tournament map was created featuring the inside of the hall as part of a contest for PC Format Magazine.

Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew)

London

Die Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew sind eine ausgedehnte Parkanlage mit bedeutenden Gewächshäusern; sie sind zwischen Richmond upon Thames und Kew im Südwesten Londons gelegen und zählen zu den ältesten botanischen Gärten der Welt. Es sind dort viele Pflanzen zu sehen, die in Europa oder auf der nördlichen Halbkugel nicht heimisch sind. Neben den weltbekannten viktorianischen Gewächshäusern finden sich in Kew Gardens auch großflächige Parkanlagen mit sehr alten Rhododendrongewächsen. Die Besucherzahlen liegen heute bei 1 bis 2 Millionen pro Jahr. In jüngerer Zeit widmet sich Kew Gardens auch intensiv Zielen der Umweltbildung, der Forschung und des Naturschutzes.