National Museum of Health and Medicine
The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, DC. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum in 1862; it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011. An element of the Defense Health Agency , the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.
National Museum of American Illustration
The National Museum of American Illustration , founded in 1998, is the first national museum to be devoted exclusively to American illustration artwork. The NMAI is located on Newport, Rhode Island's historic Bellevue Avenue in the mansion Vernon Court, designed by the noted Gilded Age architecture firm Carrère and Hastings. The museum's collection contains over 2,000 original works by noted American illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Maxfield Parrish, J. C. Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, and others.
El Museo Nacional de Praga es uno de los principales museos de Praga. Ocupa un edificio neorrenacentista situado en lo alto de la plaza de Wenceslao, la principal de la ciudad. Su vestíbulo central sirve también de panteón de los grandes checos.
Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de los Estados Unidos
La Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de los Estados Unidos , con sede en Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland, Estados Unidos es la biblioteca con el acervo médico más grande del mundo.[1] Las colecciones de esta biblioteca incluyen más de siete millones de libros, revistas, reportes médicos y técnicos, manuscritos, filmes, fotografías e imágenes de medicina y ciencias relacionadas incluyendo algunos de los trabajos más antiguos y excéntricos en lo concerniente a medicina.[1] Los materiales custodiados en la biblioteca se clasifican siguiendo una clasificación bibliográfica propia, basada parcialmente en la clasificación de la Biblioteca del Congreso.[2] Desde el año de 1879, la NLM ha publicado el Index Medicus, una guía mensual sobre artículos en cerca de cinco mil revistas seleccionadas. La última edición del Index Medicus fue impresa en diciembre del 2004. También administra diversas bases de datos como MEDLINE , MedlinePlus y ClinicalTrials .
Biblioteca Nacional de Australia
La Biblioteca Nacional de Australia, tiene sus orígenes en 1901 para servir al recientemente formado Parlamento Federal de Australia, con sede en Camberra. Desde sus inicios impulsó el desarrollo de una verdadera colección nacional. En 1907, el Comité Conjunto de la Biblioteca Parlamentaria, presidido por Sir Frederick William Holder, definió el objetivo de la Biblioteca como sigue: El Comité de la Biblioteca mantiene ante sí el ideal de construir, para cuando se establezca el Parlamento en la Capital Federal, una gran Biblioteca Pública en la línea de la de la Biblioteca del Congreso de Washington, de fama mundial; como una biblioteca, de hecho, que sea orgullo de la Nación australiana; la casa de la literatura, no de un Estado, o de una época, sino del mundo entero y para cualquier época.[1] En 1960, por la National Library Act se crea la Biblioteca Nacional de Australia . Según el Acta se trata de mantener y desarrollar una colección bibliográfica universal, que debe incluir una exhaustiva sección nacional sobre Australia y el pueblo australiano. Es depósito legal para Australia. Es la mayor biblioteca de Australia; sus fondos pasan de diez millones de ejemplares entre libros, revistas y otros formatos. Además de la colección australiana, posee muy importantes colecciones sobre la civilización y la literatura de Asia.[2] El actual edificio de la biblioteca, situado junto al lago Burley Griffin, tiene cierto parecido con el Partenón. Fue diseñado por el estudio Bunning & Madden, del arquitecto Walter Bunning, y se inauguró en 1968. El vestíbulo, hecho en mármol, está adornado con vidrieras de Leonard French y tres tapices de Mathieu Matégot.[3]
La National Audubon Society es una organización sin ánimo de lucro estadounidense dedicada a la conservación de la naturaleza. Fundada en 1905, es una de las organizaciones conservacionistas más antiguas del mundo. Su nombre hace honor al ornitólogo y naturalista estadounidense John James Audubon. La sociedad pública un magazín ilustrado, Audubon, sobre la naturaleza. Sus numerosas organizaciones locales organizan a menudo excursiones de observación de aves y actividades relacionadas con la protección del medio ambiente. También coordina el "Recuento de Aves de Navidad" en los Estados Unidos como ejemplo de las contribuciones que pueden hacer los ciudadanos a la ciencia.
The National Arts Club is a 501 nonprofit and members club on Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1898 by Charles DeKay, an art and literary critic of the New York Times to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts". Since 1906 the organization has occupied the Samuel J. Tilden House, a landmarked Victorian Gothic Revival brownstone at 15 Gramercy Park, next door to The Players, a club with similar interests. The National Arts Club is noted for allowing members access to a Gramercy Park key. The National Arts Club has several art galleries, and hosts a variety of public programs in all artistic areas including theater, literature and music. Although the club is private, many of its events are free and open to the public.The club's mansion headquarters was designated a New York City landmark in 1966, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It is located in the Gramercy Park Historic District.
The Nassau County Museum of Art is located 20 miles east of New York City on the former Frick "Clayton" Estate, a 145-acre property in Roslyn Harbor in the heart of Long Island’s Gold Coast. The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold A. Saltzman and his wife Joan, is a three-story Georgian-style mansion that exemplifies Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century. In addition to the mansion, NCMA, which receives nearly 200,000 visitors each year, includes The Manes Family Art & Education Center, opened in 2017, as well as a Sculpture Park, a Formal Garden, rare specimen trees and marked walking trails.
The Nasher Museum of Art is the art museum of Duke University, and is located on Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina, United States. The Nasher, along with Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art and Princeton's Art Museum, has been recognized as a place that "raises the cultural bar" on college campuses.
El Museo Nacional de Serbia está localizado en Belgrado, y fue fundado en 1844. Está situado en la Plaza de la República. Desde su fundación, las colecciones han aumentado considerablemente. Hoy en día, el museo tiene una colección de más de 400.000 objetos, incluyendo numerosas obras de arte extranjeras. Ha sido sometido a una renovación con un costo estimado de 26 millones de €, que culminó en 2009.[1] Una de las principales características de esta remodelación es la introducción de una cúpula de vidrio como techo del museo, que permitirá la entrada de una cantidad controlada de luz solar. Se trata del museo más importante del país, y alberga más de 5.600 pinturas y 8.400 dibujos y grabados, de los cuales muchos son considerados obras maestras.[2] Dispone de departamentos de arqueología, arte medieval, arte postmedieval y moderno y numismática.[3]
The Baker Museum is part of Artis—Naples, a multidisciplinary organization that also is the home of the Naples Philharmonic, located at 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard, Naples, Florida. The museum, opened in 2000, houses a diverse collection of art in a three-story, 30,000-square-foot facility. The permanent collection includes works of American modernism, 20th-century Mexican art, sculpture and 3-dimensional art. In addition to the permanent collection, the museum hosts traveling exhibits throughout the year. The Baker Museum also houses the Sisters Reading Room, which contains the Saldukas Family Foundation library collection.
The Nantucket Whaling Museum is a museum located in Nantucket, Massachusetts. It is run by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Whaling Museum is the flagship site of the Nantucket Historical Association’s fleet of properties. Restored in 2005, the Nantucket Whaling Museum incorporates a new, expanded exhibit and program space that connects the 1847 Hadwen & Barney Oil and Candle Factory and the 1971 Peter Foulger Museum. The new structure includes the Gosnell Hall Whale Hunt Gallery, where a forty-six-foot-long sperm whale skeleton is suspended from the ceiling. The Hadwen & Barney Oil and Candle Factory, featuring the massive lever press, is interpreted as an industrial site where the complicated process of refining oil and making spermaceti candles is explained along with the other Nantucket industries that arose from the whaling era. Eleven galleries and exhibit spaces featuring thousands of artifacts and art pertaining to Nantucket life, art, and ideas are on display. In 2008, the Whaling Museum received accreditation from the American Association of Museums, an honor bestowed upon fewer than one of every twenty-two museums in the country. The museum was reaccredited in 2017. .
El castillo de Łańcut es un complejo de edificios históricos ubicado en Łańcut , Polonia. Históricamente la residencia de las familias Pilecki, Lubomirski y Potocki , el complejo incluye varios edificios y está rodeado por un parque. El castillo es uno de los monumentos históricos nacionales oficiales de Polonia , designado el 1 de septiembre de 2005, y supervisado por la Junta del Patrimonio Nacional de Polonia .[1]
Museum of Warsaw is a museum in the Old Town Market Place in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 1936.
King John III Palace Museum, Wilanów
The Museum of King John III's Palace at Wilanów is a museum in Warsaw, Poland considered to be one of the oldest in the country and the repository of the country's royal and artistic heritage. The collection consists of valuables collected by subsequent owners of the Wilanów Palace, the Kings of Poland - John III Sobieski and Augustus II, as well as by representatives of noble families of Potocki, and Lubomirski and a collection of Sarmatian art.
El Museo Nacional de Cracovia , popularmente abreviado como MNK, fue creado en 1879, es la rama principal del Museo Nacional de Polonia, el cual tiene varias ramas independientes con colecciones permanentes alrededor del país. El museo consta de 21 departamentos que están divididos por periodos de arte; 11 galerías, 2 bibliotecas y 12 talleres de conservación. Alberga unos 780.000 objetos de arte, abarcando desde arqueología clásica hasta arte moderno, destacando la pintura polaca.[1][2] Actualmente exhibe La dama del armiño desde el 19 de mayo de 2017 mientras que el Museo Czartoryski permanece cerrado.[3]
National Military Museum, Romania
The National Military Museum , located at 125-127 Mircea Vulcănescu St., Bucharest, Romania, was established on 18 December 1923 by King Ferdinand I. It has been at its present site since 1988, in a building finished in 1898.
The Zambaccian Museum in Bucharest, Romania is a museum in the former home of Krikor Zambaccian , a businessman and art collector. The museum was founded in the Dorobanți neighbourhood in 1947, closed by the Ceauşescu regime in 1977, and re-opened in 1992. It is now a branch of The National Museum of Art of Romania. Its collection includes works by Romanian artists—including a masterful portrait of Zambaccian himself by Corneliu Baba—and works by several French impressionists. It is located not far from Piaţa Dorobanţilor on a street now renamed after Zambaccian. At the time the museum was founded, the act of donation stated that it must be housed in Zambaccian's former home. However, after the 1977 Bucharest earthquake , the Romanian government created the Museum of Art Collections, consolidating many of the city's smaller museums . The Zambaccian collection still resided at the Museum of Art Collections at the time of the Romanian Revolution of 1989; it was returned to its historic location in 1992. Artists in the collection include Romanians Ion Andreescu, Corneliu Baba, Apcar Baltazar, Henri Catargi, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Horia Damian, Nicolae Dărăscu, Lucian Grigorescu, Nicolae Grigorescu, Iosif Iser, Ştefan Luchian, Samuel Mutzner, Alexandru Padina, Theodor Pallady, Gheorghe Petrașcu, Vasile Popescu, Camil Ressu, and Nicolae Tonitza, and French artists Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne—the museum has the only Cézanne in Romania—, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Delacroix, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Maurice Utrillo, as well as pieces by two other artists who worked in France, the Spaniard Pablo Picasso and the Englishman Alfred Sisley. The courtyard features a large sculpture by Romanian sculptor Oscar Han; other sculptors with works in the collection are Constantin Brâncuși, Cornel Medrea, Miliţa Pătraşcu, Dimitrie Paciurea, and Frederic Storck; Storck's own former home, also in the north end of Bucharest, is also now a museum.
