The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington. It maintains three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and the open Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened on January 20, 2007.
The Art Complex Museum, located in the historic town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 33 miles south of Boston, serves as a regional arts center and houses the impressive collection of the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser family.
Situated on over 13 acres of woodland and open fields, the handicapped accessible museum opened in 1971. In addition to a gallery for rotating objects from the permanent collection, and exhibitions spaces that feature painting, sculpture, prints and craft objects created by contemporary artists, the museum houses the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Reference Library of over 7,000 publications. Located on the grounds is a Japanese tea hut, part of the museum's Asian collection, which is used during tea ceremony presentations.
The museum offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions, lectures, concerts, classes, education programs, demonstrations, and tea ceremonies fulfilling the founders' vision that their family's many interests be shared with the community as the Weyerhaeuser family envisioned.
Los Jardines de Versalles ocupan parte de lo que fue el Domaine royal de Versailles, los dominios reales del Palacio de Versalles, en el municipio homónimo del departamento de Yvelines, Francia. Situados al oeste del palacio, los jardines cubren aproximadamente 800 ha de superficie, la mayoría tratada paisajísticamente como jardín francés, estilo perfeccionado aquí por André Le Nôtre.[1]
Más allá del perímetro forestado, los jardines están rodeados por las áreas urbanas de Versalles al este, y Le Chesnay al nordeste, por el Arboreto de Chèvreloup al norte, la llanura de Versalles al oeste, y el bosque Satory al sur. Además de los parques y canteros de flores, los jardines contienen esculturas y fuentes repartidas por toda su superficie. Correspondientes a la época del rey Luis XIV y estando en uso todavía buena parte de las instalaciones hidráulicas originales, las fuentes contribuyen a lograr un parque único. Los fines de semana desde fines de primavera a principios del otoño, los administradores promueven el espectáculo de Les Grandes Eaux en los que se muestran todos los juegos de agua de las fuentes.
Como parte del domaine national de Versailles et de Trianon, una entidad pública autónoma que opera bajo control del Ministerio francés de cultura. En 1979 los jardines, junto con el palacio fueron registrados por la Unesco como Patrimonio de la humanidad, uno de los 31 monumentos designados en Francia.[2] Así mismo son uno de los lugares más visitados del país y en 2018 superó la marca de los 8 millones por primera vez.[3]
Anglesey Abbey is a National Trust property in the village of Lode, 5 1⁄2 miles northeast of Cambridge, England. The property includes a country house, built on the remains of a priory, 98 acres of gardens and landscaped grounds, and a working mill.
The priory was closed in 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and a Jacobean-style house was built on the site of the ruins in about 1600. Owners down the centuries included Thomas Hobson and his Parker descendants, and three local clergymen. The last private owner was Lord Fairhaven who lived in the house from 1926 to 1966. He made extensive additions to the house to accommodate his collection of furniture, art, books and objets d'art, and landscaped the grounds. When he died he left the house and its contents to the National Trust.
The Museum Catharijneconvent is a museum of religious art in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is located in the former St. Catharine convent, having been sited there since 1979. Its collections include many artifacts from the museum of religious art of the Catholic Archbishopric of Utrecht, located in the convent until 1979. In 2006 the convent closed for restoration. It is part of the Utrecht Museum Night.
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust runs Yeovil District Hospital in Yeovil, Somerset, England. It provides acute care for a population of about 180,000, people living in South Somerset, North and West Dorset, and parts of Mendip. The hospital admits around 30,000 inpatients or day cases each year and treats more than 90,000 people in the outpatient appointments. Approximately 40,000 people are treated in Accident and Emergency and 1,300 babies are born in the maternity unit each year.
The Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History
is an arts and cultural museum in Münster, Germany Besides an extensive collection ranging from spätgotik painting and sculpture to the Cranachs, the museum specializes in paintings from the Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke movements, in particular works by August Macke.
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, together with the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and the Cowles Conservatory, it has an annual attendance of around 700,000 visitors. The museum's permanent collection includes over 13,000 modern and contemporary art pieces including books, costumes, drawings, media works, paintings, photography, prints, and sculpture.The Walker Art Center began 1879 as a personal art gallery in the home of lumber baron Thomas Barlow Walker. Walker formally established his collection as the Walker Art Gallery in 1927. With the support of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, the Walker Art Gallery became the Walker Art Center in January 1940. The Walker celebrated its 75th anniversary as a public art center in 2015.The Walker's new building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and opened in May 1971, saw a major expansion in 2005. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron's addition included an additional gallery space, a theater, restaurant, shop, and special events space.
Valence House Museum is the only surviving of the five manor houses of Dagenham. The timber-framed museum building, partially surrounded by a moat, is situated in Valence Park off Becontree Avenue, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, London, England. The building has been used as a manor house, a family home, a town hall, the headquarters of the library service and now houses a museum.
La Universidad de St. Andrews es una universidad pública ubicada en el pequeño pueblo de St Andrews, en el condado de Fife, Escocia. Es la universidad más antigua de Escocia y una de las más antiguas del Reino Unido. Fue fundada en el siglo XV, entre 1410 y 1413, y en la actualidad sigue siendo una de las universidades más prestigiosas del país, posicionándose tras las universidades de Oxbridge.[1]
La universidad es relativamente pequeña, con una población entre empleados y estudiantes de unos 9000. La universidad está estrechamente integrada con la ciudad de St. Andrews. Se divide en cuatro facultades de Artes, Teología, Ciencia y Medicina.
Si bien la mayoría de la investigación en St. Andrews se produce dentro de las escuelas académicas, una serie de centros e institutos abordan proyectos más amplios como los que se encuentran en el Centro de Ética, Filosofía y Asuntos Públicos.
The Ulster Hospital, , commonly known as the Ulster, is a teaching hospital in Dundonald in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Ballyregan, beside the A20 road. It provides acute services in the North Down, Ards and Castlereagh council areas, as well as east Belfast. It is managed by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust.
El Timken Museum of Art es un museo ubicado en el Parque Balboa de la ciudad de San Diego, California.
El Timken abrió en 1965 diseñado por el arquitecto Frank Hope. Muestra una significativa colección de antiguas pinturas, esculturas y tapices europeos, pertenecientes a la Putnam Foundation. Además de estas exposiciones también son exhibidas importantes colecciones de pintura americana e iconos rusos.
Específicamente, en las exhibiciones del museo se incluyen obras americanas , italianas , españolas y francesas , pero la mayoría de sus impresionantes grupos de obras pertenecen a las escuelas flamencas y holandesas con obras maestras individuales como las de Pieter Brueghel el Viejo, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Frans Hals y Rembrandt van Rijn.
Para el modelo UKMET, ver: Modelo de previsión de ciclones tropicalesLa Met Office , es el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional del Reino Unido, y un Departamento Ejecutivo del Ministerio de Defensa. Parte de sus dependencias se encuentran en Exeter, y en Devon se halla el "Colegio Met Office", que lleva a cabo el entrenamiento de su personal y de muchos pronosticadores de todo el mundo. El jefe actual ejecutivo es Penelope Endersby desde 2018.
The Hyde Collection is an art museum in the city of Glens Falls in Upstate New York. The collections were endowed by the Hyde family. The museum is housed in a historic refurbished early twentieth-century residence, the Hyde House, located at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls, New York, a building that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.Founded by Louis and Charlotte Hyde, the collection contains historic furniture, books, paintings, sculptures and pottery. Now expanded with many modern additions, the museum, while relatively small and "off the beaten track" contains an impressive and broad collection including Italian Renaissance and eighteenth-century French antiques, and works by Botticelli, El Greco, van Dyck, Ingres, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Tintoretto, Cézanne, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, and van Gogh. In addition, works by important American artists including Eakins, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Ryder, and Whistler are also present.
The Green Howards Regimental Museum is the museum of the Green Howards infantry regiment of the British Army. It is located in the old Trinity Church in the centre of the market place of Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. The Green Howards were amalgamated with The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire and The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, all Yorkshire-based regiments in the King's Division, to form The Yorkshire Regiment on 6 June 2006.
St. Lorenz is a medieval church of the former free imperial city of Nuremberg in southern Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Lawrence. The church was badly damaged during the Second World War and later restored. It is one of the most prominent churches of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
St Hugh's College es uno de los colegios constituyentes de la Universidad de Oxford. Se encuentra en un sitio de 14.5 acres en St Margaret's Road, al norte del centro de la ciudad. Fue fundada en 1886 por Elizabeth Wordsworth como una universidad para mujeres, y aceptó a sus primeros estudiantes varones en su año centenario en 1986.
Goza de una reputación como una de las universidades más atractivas debido a sus extensos y agradables jardines. En su 125 aniversario, la universidad se convirtió en una organización benéfica registrada bajo el nombre de "The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh's College en la Universidad de Oxford". A partir de julio de 2018, la dotación financiera de la universidad era de 37,6 millones de Libra Esterlina.
Healthcare in London, which consumes about a fifth of the NHS budget in England, is in many respects distinct from that in the rest of the United Kingdom, or England.
