Oxford Town Hall is a public building in St Aldate's Street in central Oxford, England. It is both the seat of Oxford City Council and a venue for public meetings, entertainment and other events. It is also includes the Museum of Oxford. Although Oxford is a city with its own charter, the building is referred to as the "Town Hall". It is Oxford's third seat of government to have stood on the same site. The present building, completed in 1897, is Grade II* listed.
Museo Nacional de Mujeres Artistas
El Museo Nacional de Mujeres Artistas , es un museo ubicado en Washington D.C. dedicado al reconocimiento de los logros de las mujeres en las artes visuales, interpretativas y literarias.[1] El NMWA fue creado en 1981 por Wallace y Wilhelmina Holladay. Desde su apertura en 1987,[2] el museo ha adquirido una colección de más de 4500 pinturas, esculturas, obras sobre papel y arte decorativo. Entre su colección se incluyen obras de Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, y Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun. El museo se ubica en el edificio del antiguo Templo Masónico que forma parte del Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos de Estados Unidos.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Angers
El Museo de Bellas Artes de Angers es un museo situado en Angers, en un hôtel particulier, llamado Logis Barrault, plaza Saint-Eloi, cerca de la histórica ciudad de Angers. Es parte del complejo que incluye el Jardín de Bellas Artes de Todos los Santos, la Galería de David d'Angers, la biblioteca de la ciudad y el restaurante universitario. Hay una rica colección de obras de arte adquiridas a lo largo de los siglos en un área total de 7 000 m². El museo incluye: 2 500 metros cuadrados para las colecciones permanentes 500 m² para exposiciones temporales 1 000 m² para las zonas públicas de recepción de las salas, zona de tránsito de museos, auditorio, sala de vídeo, cafetería, tienda... 3 000 m² restantes de espacios técnicosEl sitio combina la historia y la creación, la museografía más moderna y la visita agradable.
Leeds General Infirmary, also known as the LGI, is a large teaching hospital based in the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and is part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Its previous name The General Infirmary at Leeds is still sometimes used.The LGI is a specialist centre for a number of services, including the Major Trauma Centre and hand transplants. It also provides many general acute services like A&E, intensive care and high dependency units, maternity and state-of-the-art operating theatres.
Lancaster Town Hall is a municipal building in Dalton Square, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
El Keble College es uno de los colleges que constituyen la Universidad de Oxford en Inglaterra. Sus edificios principales se encuentran en Parks Road, en frente del Museo y el Parque de la Universidad. El college está rodeado por el norte por Keble Road, al sur por Museum Road, y al oeste por Blackhall road. Está cerca del Somerville College. En 2006, el college tuvo un presupuesto estimado en 47 millones de libras. El Keble se estableció en 1870, habiendo sido construido como monumento en honor a John Keble. John Keble fue un importante líder del Movimiento de Oxford, que tenía como objeto el destacar la historia católica de la Iglesia Anglicana. En consecuencia, el college tradicionalmente ha puesto un considerable énfasis en la enseñanza religiosa, aunque hace mucho que ha dejado de ser así. Todavía se distingue al Keble por sus edificios de ladrillo rojo de estilo neogótico diseñados por William Butterfield. Los edificios también son diferentes por romper con la tradición de colocar las habitaciones a lo largo de pasillos en vez de hacerlo alrededor de escaleras. El Keble es uno de los college más grandes, con 435 estudiantes de pregrado y 226 de postgrado.
El Museo de Arte Joslyn ? es un museo de arte, se encuentra ubicado en Omaha, Nebraska, fue inaugurado en 1931 a iniciativa de Sarah H. Joslyn en memoria de su marido el empresario George A. Joslyn,[2] cuenta con excepcionales colecciones del siglo XIX y XX, como obras de Paolo Veronese, El Greco, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Tiziano, entre otros.
The Hill of Tarvit is a 20th-century mansion house and gardens in Fife, Scotland. They were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and are today owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
High Life Highland is a regional organisation in Scotland, responsible for cultural and sports provision in the Highland Council Area. Its activities include running libraries, museums and leisure centres. It is a registered charity under Scottish law.High Life Highland was created by Highland Council as an "arms length" organisation responsible for developing and promoting opportunities in culture, learning, sport, leisure, health and well-being across the region.In 2015 it was announced that Inverness Leisure would merge with High Life Highland, a process which was completed on 1 April 2016.
The Grand Rapids Art Museum is an art museum located in Grand Rapids, Michigan with collections ranging from Renaissance to Modern Art and special collections on 19th and 20th-century European and American art. Its holdings include notable modern art works such as Richard Diebenkorn’s 1963 Ingleside. The museum has in its collection 5,000 works of art, including over 3,500 prints, drawings and photographs.
Doncaster Mansion House is a Grade I listed building in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It is owned and managed by Doncaster Council, and the venue is used for civic and private functions, including tours, afternoon teas, wedding services, and official receptions. The Mansion House stands on the site of the Carmelite Friary, which had been established in Doncaster in 1350 and remained until its dissolution on 13 November 1538, after which the buildings were destroyed. During the 18th century, Doncaster's position on the Great North Road brought wealth to the town. The town's corporation was frequently called on to host entertainments, initially at the mayor's house or the Angel or Three Cranes inns. In 1719, they took a lease on a house in the High Street for holding feasts, but let this lapse around 1727. They bought a site on the High Street in 1738, with the intention of building a permanent base for entertaining, but little construction took place for several years. In 1746, James Paine was appointed as architect in 1746. Although young, Paine had already worked on Nostell Priory and had designed Heath House, both near Wakefield.Mansion Houses had already been constructed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne , York and London. Whereas these other buildings contained both formal reception rooms and living quarters for the mayor, Doncaster's differed in being designed purely for entertainment, although some later mayors used space in the building as accommodation.Paine planned a building along the now established designs of Assembly Rooms. It was completed in 1748 and officially opened in 1749, the construction having cost £8,000. Paine was immediately offered more local work, starting with alterations to Cusworth Hall. He published his designs for the Mansion House in 1751. This work showed the building flanked by two other structures, marked as houses for the town clerk and recorder, but these were never part of the commission and were not built.William Lindley extended the building between 1801 and 1806, adding an attic storey, a rear banqueting hall and rear landing.
The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is an art museum within 17 acres of gardens, established in 1976, and located at 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The museum focuses on French and American impressionism and features works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Berthe Morisot, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, and Alfred Sisley, as well as an extensive collection of works by French Impressionist artist Jean-Louis Forain. The museum also houses the Stout Collection of 18th-century German porcelain. With nearly 600 pieces of tableware and figures, it is one of the finest such collections in the United States. The Dixon also features a comprehensive schedule of original and traveling exhibitions of fine art and horticulture. The museum sits within four principal outdoor sculpture gardens with Greco-Roman sculpture. Its site was acquired by the Dixons in 1939, and landscaped in the English Garden style with open vistas adjacent to smaller, intimate formal spaces. The major areas within the gardens are the Cutting Garden, Formal Garden, South Lawn, and Woodland Gardens.
Divisions of the University of Oxford
The various academic faculties, departments, and institutes of the University of Oxford are organised into four divisions, each with its own Head and elected board. They are the Humanities Division; the Social Sciences Division; the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division; and the Medical Sciences Division.
Dartford Central Library and Museum is a library in the town centre of Dartford, Kent, England. The library was opened on 1 January 1916 by A. W. Smale, Chairman of the Dartford Urban District Council, and W. A. Ward, the Chairman of the Library Committee. Its first browsers were soldiers in World War I who were staying nearby in military hospitals, recovering from wounds received while serving in the trenches. Dartford Central Library was constructed with the aid of a grant from the philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. It was designed by Thomas E. Tiffin AMICE, the then-Dartford Urban District Council surveyor, and built in Bath by Messrs H. Friday and Sons and Ling, using Portland and York stone. In 1937 the library was expanded over what was once the Dartford tin works. During the Second World War its cupola dome served as an air raid watchpost. In 2016 the library had a major refit and internal access created between it and Dartford Museum. The library also opened the Peter Blake Gallery for the display of works by local artists.Today, Dartford Library is open weekdays from 08:30 to 18:00, except Thursday when it opens until 20:00, and Saturdays 09:00 to 17:00. It is run by Kent County Council.
Collegiate Church of San Gimignano
The Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta, San Gimignano is a Roman Catholic collegiate church and minor basilica located in San Gimignano, Tuscany, central Italy, situated in the Piazza del Duomo at the town's heart. The church is famous for its fresco cycles which include works by Domenico Ghirlandaio, Benozzo Gozzoli, Taddeo di Bartolo, Lippo Memmi and Bartolo di Fredi. The basilica is located within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the "Historic Centre of San Gimignano", with its frescos being described by UNESCO as "works of outstanding beauty".
Christchurch Mansion is a substantial Tudor brick mansion house built in Ipswich, Suffolk by Edmund Withypoll around 1548-50. The Grade I listed building is located within Christchurch Park and sits by the southern gates close to the town centre of Ipswich. The mansion belonged to various noble families throughout its history but was purchased by the Ipswich Borough Council in 1884. Since 1885, the building has been used as a museum and is today run by the state funded Colchester + Ipswich Museums organisation. The museum's rooms are preserved as past inhabitants would have known them, complete with original items such as furniture, fine clothing and children's toys. The museum also holds a collection of paintings by renowned local artists including John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough.
The Arkell Museum is a museum in Canajoharie, New York that has an extensive collection of American paintings, primarily from 1860–1940, as well as historical exhibits about the history of the Mohawk River Valley and of the Beech-Nut babyfood company. The Canajoharie Library was founded in 1924, and a gallery was added in 1927. The museum was originally built to house copies of European masterpieces and original 19th-century American paintings collected by Bartlett Arkell, then the town's leading industrialist. Susan Finch has written of the museum, "The institution has evolved into more than just an art gallery with a library attached, but an art gallery with a small town attached. The roster of American painters exhibited here is astounding and completely out of scale with what you would expect from a Thruway exit between Albany and Utica."Arkell acquired and donated some of the finest American paintings he came across. He incorporated several elements from different art museums that he visited in Europe and the United States into this museum. These were the European paintings Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Prince George Gallery at the Walker Art Museum in Liverpool, England and the gallery that housed The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Many of the paintings on display reflect Arkell's personal taste. Growing up in Canajoharie, landscapes of rural New York State and the Mohawk River are what Arkell found intriguing as well as familiar as they can be seen hanging on the museum walls The permanent collection includes twenty-one paintings by Winslow Homer, works by all members of The Eight, and paintings by leading American Impressionists such as Childe Hassam. George Inness and Ralph Blakelock are also well represented by several works in this impressive collection. American paintings from the 20th century include realist and regionalist works by Paul Sample, Ogden Pleissner and Thomas Hart Benton. This decorative arts collection derived from Arkell's desire to acquire objects of good taste such as furniture, sculpture, glass and pottery to place in the museum and library.
Instituto Butler de Arte Americano
El Instituto Butler de Arte Americano [2] está ubicado en la avenida Wick de Youngstown, Ohio, Estados Unidos. Fue el primer museo dedicado exclusivamente al arte estadounidense.[3] Fundado por el industrial y filántropo local Joseph G. Butler Jr., el museo está abierto al público de manera gratuita desde 1919.[4] Inaugurada en 1919, la estructura original es una obra maestra arquitectónica de McKim, Mead & White, incluida en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos.[5]
