La catedral de Bamberg, oficialmente catedral Imperial de los Santos Pedro y Pablo y Jorge , dedicada a san Pedro, san Pablo y san Jorge, es uno de los monumentos arquitectónicos más conocidos de Alemania y ha sido el lugar más famoso de Bamberg desde su finalización en el siglo XIII. La catedral es la sede del arzobispo de Bamberg y tiene la consideración de basílica menor desde el 4 de febrero de 1923.[1] Junto con las cercanas catedrales románicas de Maguncia, Espira y Worms constituye una de las llamadas catedrales imperiales de Renania-Palatinado.
Fue fundada en 1004 por el emperador Enrique II y finalizada el 6 de mayo de 1012. En 1081 fue destruida parcialmente por el fuego. La nueva catedral, construida por San Oto de Bamberg, se consagró en 1111, y en el siglo XIII recibió su forma románica tardía, tal y como se puede ver hoy con cuatro torres imponentes.
La catedral de Bamberg pertenece al estilo de transición románico-gótico, que se caracteriza por la presencia de dos ábsides encontrados. El más antiguo, al este, ocupa una posición elevada y está adornado con una fina balaustrada y cornisas. El otro, al oeste, es de estilo gótico puro. Ambos presbiterios están flanqueados por cuatro esbeltas torres. Traduce la reticencia de las poderosas instituciones eclesiásticas del Imperio ante las innovaciones del gótico francés. Delante de la Plaza de la Catedral , la Portada de los Príncipes, la más bella de la catedral, cuenta con un conjunto escultórico que representa a los profetas cargando sobre sus espaldas a los apóstoles. Se accede al edificio por la Portada de Adán, situada al este.
En el interior, se puede observar la acentuada evolución del románico al gótico, de este a oeste. Los dos presbiterios, muy elevados, rodean una nave cuyos muros están desprovistos de triforio y galería. Bajo el presbiterio oriental hay una gran cripta de tres naves. Debajo del presbiterio occidental se halla otra cripta realizada en tiempos del emperador Enrique II, que sirve de sepultura a los arzobispos de Bamberg.
También se encuentra el célebre grupo escultórico de la Visitación, la estatua ecuestre del Jinete de Bamberg , que representa a un rey no identificado, y la obra de Tilman Riemenschneider: la lápida sepulcral de Enrique II el Santo y de su esposa Cunegunda de Luxemburgo, ricamente adornada con santos y escenas profanas.
The Catalyst Science Discovery Centre is a science and technology museum in Widnes, Halton, North-West England. The centre has interactive exhibits, reconstructed historical scenes, an observatory, a live-science theatre and family workshops. It is next to Spike Island, a public park, located between the River Mersey and the Sankey Canal that has woodlands, wetlands, footpaths and industrial archaeological history.
The centre is housed in Tower Building, constructed around 1860 by John Hutchinson as the administrative centre for his chemical business. The centre holds a collection of archives relating to the chemical industry, these include documents, photographs and the entire research archive of the ICI General Chemical Division.
Castle Ward is an 18th-century National Trust property located near the village of Strangford, in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name. It overlooks Strangford Lough and is 7 miles from Downpatrick and 1.5 miles from Strangford.
Castle Ward is open to the public and includes 332 hectares of landscaped gardens, a fortified tower house, Victorian laundry, theatre, restaurant, shop, saw mill and a working corn mill. It has a shore on Strangford Lough. From 1985 to 2010 it has also hosted Castleward Opera, an annual summer opera festival.
Banca Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze S.p.A. known as Banca CR Firenze, was an Italian savings bank. Once a listed company, the group now part of Intesa Sanpaolo since 2007.
Captain Cook Memorial Museum is a history museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The museum building, Walker's House, belonged to Captain John Walker, to whom James Cook was apprenticed in 1746. Having lodged there as an apprentice, Cook returned to visit in the winter of 1771–72 after his first voyage.
The Canterbury Heritage Museum was a museum in Stour Street, Canterbury, South East England, telling the history of the city. It was housed in the 12th-century Poor Priests' Hospital next to the River Stour. The museum exhibited the Canterbury Cross and contained a gallery dedicated to Rupert the Bear, whose creator Mary Tourtel lived in Canterbury. It held regular events and exhibitions of local and national interest. The museum closed in 2018. It has since re-opened as The Marlowe Kit; an escape room, exhibition and creative space.
El Museo Bizantino y Cristiano es uno de los museos de Grecia de la ciudad de Atenas. Por la calidad y la amplitud de su exposición permanente se trata de uno de los museos dedicado a la cultura bizantina más importantes del mundo.[1]
Buckland Abbey is a Grade I listed 700-year-old house in Buckland Monachorum, near Yelverton, Devon, England, noted for its connection with Sir Richard Grenville the Younger and Sir Francis Drake. It is owned by the National Trust.
The Brukenthal National Museum is a museum in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, established in the late 18th century by Samuel von Brukenthal in his city palace. Baron Brukenthal, governor of the Grand Principality of Transylvania has established his first collections around 1790. The collections were officially opened to the public in 1817, making the museum the oldest institution of its kind on the territory of modern-day Romania.
Today, in its extended form, it is a complex comprising six museums, which, without being separate administrative entities, are situated in different locations around the city and have their own distinct cultural programmes.
Brooke Robinson was a British Conservative Party politician, who was MP for Dudley and held a number of public posts including that of County Coroner for Dudley. He also was an art collector and benefactor whose legacy was the Town Hall and a museum in the town of Dudley.
The Brunel Museum is a small museum situated at the Brunel Engine House, Rotherhithe, London Borough of Southwark. The Engine House was designed by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel as part of the infrastructure of the Thames Tunnel which opened in 1843 and was the first tunnel to be built under a navigable river anywhere in the world. It comprises the Engine House and the Tunnel Shaft, with rooftop garden. Isambard Kingdom Brunel worked with his father on the project from 1823 and was formally appointed Resident Engineer in January 1827 at the age of 20.
Brodsworth Hall, near Brodsworth, 5 miles north-west of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, is one of the most complete surviving examples of a Victorian country house in England. It is virtually unchanged since the 1860s. It was designed in the Italianate style by the obscure London architect, Philip Wilkinson, then 26 years old. He was commissioned by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson, who inherited the estate in 1859, but the original estate was constructed in 1791 for merchant and slave owner Peter Thellusson. It is a Grade I listed building.
Upton Hall is the headquarters of the British Horological Institute in Upton, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England. It has been the headquarters since 1972. It also houses the Museum of Timekeeping consisting of a substantial collection of clocks, watches and also a library. The Museum is open to the public during seasonal summer opening hours, for special events and for pre-booked Group tours.
The Library at Willesden Green is a public library complex situated in Willesden Green, London, United Kingdom. The centre includes a public library which spans over 3 floors and even includes a library for kids. It includes over 10'000 books including computer and study spaces. The library is operated by Brent Council and houses governmental archives on Brent. Since 2006, the Brent Museum has been located in the building and since the 2015 redevelopment, a performing arts space, as well as an art exhibition gallery, was added to the building.
Bob Jones University is a private, non-denominational evangelical university in Greenville, South Carolina. It is known for its conservative cultural and religious positions. The university, with approximately 2,500 students, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. The university's athletic teams, the Bruins, compete in Division II of the National Christian College Athletic Association and provisionally in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . In 2008, the university estimated the number of its graduates at 35,000; in 2017, 40,184.
