The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the principal U.S. art museums, with paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free through a subsidy from the cultural tax district for St. Louis City and County.In addition to the featured exhibitions, the museum offers rotating exhibitions and installations. These include the Currents series, which features contemporary artists, as well as regular exhibitions of new media art and works on paper.
Poole Museum is a local history museum situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset, and is part of the Borough of Poole Museum Service. Entrance to Poole Museum is free, and the museum is the fifth most visited free attraction in South West England.
The People's History Museum in Manchester, England, is the UK's national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in the UK. It is located in a grade II-listed, former hydraulic pumping station on the corner of the Bridge Street and Water Street designed by Manchester Corporation City Architect, Henry Price.The museum tells the story of the history of in Great Britain and about people's lives at home, work and leisure over the last 200 years. The collection contains printed material, physical objects and photographs of people at work, rest and play. Some of the topics covered include popular radicalism, the Peterloo Massacre, 19th century trade unionism, the women's suffrage movement, dockers, the cooperative movement, the 1945 general election, and football. It also includes material relating to friendly societies, the welfare movement and advances in the lives of working people.
The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. , donated most of his extensive collection to the museum. This single gift significantly expanded the museum's collection, making it one of the major art museums in the Southeastern United States. From 1958 to 1971, the Chrysler Museum of Art was a smaller museum consisting solely of Chrysler's personal collection and housed in the historic Center Methodist Church in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Today's museum sits on a small body of water known as The Hague.
The Ben Uri Gallery & Museum is a registered museum and charity currently sited at 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, England. It features the work and lives of émigré artists in London, and describes itself as "The Art Museum for Everyone".
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Lo Scottish National Portrait Gallery è una pinacoteca e galleria d'arte situata nel centro della capitale scozzese di Edimburgo, in Queen Street, che espone una collezione nazionale di ritratti, tutti di tematiche scozzesi ed eseguiti in prevalenza da pittori scozzesi. Detiene inoltre una collezione nazionale di Fotografia. A partire dal 1889 la Galleria è ospitata dal caratteristico palazzo in arenaria rossa di architettura neogotica, progettato dall'architetto scozzese Robert Rowand Anderson e costruito tra il 1885 ed il 1890, donato dal filantropo John Ritchie Findlay, proprietario del quotidiano The Scotsman. La Galleria è stata ristrutturata internamente dal 2009 al 2011 ed è correntemente aperta al pubblico con un rinnovato insieme di collezioni artistiche.La collezione del museo contiene circa 3.000 dipinti e sculture, 25.000 stampe e disegni e 38.000 fotografie. La raccolta essenzialmente parte dal Rinascimento, con opere prevalentemente di artisti stranieri che rappresentano casati reali, la nobiltà scozzese e anche stampe di prelati e scrittori; le opere più notevoli furono per lo più realizzate nell'Europa d'oltremanica . Come successe in Inghilterra, anche in Scozia la Riforma protestante fece sparire l'arte religiosa e fino al XIX secolo la ritrattistica dominò la pittura scozzese, con patroni che progressivamente si estendevano verso i livelli inferiori della scala sociale. Nel XVI secolo la maggior parte dei ritratti dipinti sono di reali e di nobiltà importante; l'opera più antica della collezione è un ritratto di Giacomo IV di Scozia del 1507.
Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust. Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Irish seat of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry. The house and its contents reflect the history of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, who played a leading role in British and Irish social and political life.
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum is a Gothic Revival-style building, located in the centre of Dundee, Scotland. The building houses a museum and art gallery with a collection of fine and decorative art as well as a natural history collection. It is protected as a Category A listed building.The concept for the building was originally commissioned as a memorial to Prince Albert and intended to contain room for lectures, museum, picture gallery and a reference library for students by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was agreed that the funding for the building should be provided by the inhabitants of Dundee. Although the city could not afford such a lavish memorial outright, it did contribute £300. A guaranteed fund of £4,205 15/- from 168 contributors was collected which included a munificent gift from the Baxter family which totalled £420.The building was designed by the architect George Gilbert Scott, who was an expert for the restoration of mediaeval churches and advocate of the Gothic architectural style. He intended to design a large tower like in his previous work at St. Nikolai, Hamburg. The foundations were situated in a small wetland called Quaw Bog at the confluence of the Scourin Burn and Friar Burn, which has since been drained. This meant that the area under the building site was underpinned by large wood beams. However, when construction began in 1865, the ground proved too unstable to support the larger tower that he envisaged. The building was opened as the Albert Institute in 1867. Two further sections, which extended the building by four art galleries and four museum galleries, were added by 1889. The central section was designed to Scott's intention by David MacKenzie, with the Eastern Galleries by William Alexander. The contents of the Watt Institute, founded in 1848, were incorporated into the collection before the opening of the civic museum and art gallery in 1873. Between 1873 and 1949, the buildings were administrated as part of public library service. From 1959, the city corporation took over the running of the administration. Ironically, following a later refurbishment the building now commemorates the Lord Provost Maurice McManus. Initially retitled McManus Galleries, after refurbishment in 2010, it is now formally known as The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum. In 1976, cracks were discovered in south-east corner of the building. The subsequent survey found that the building was partially subsiding. During 1979, remedial measures involved placing load-bearing concrete piles and cross-beams positioned to replace rotted timbers.The building was closed to the public on 24 October 2005 for a £7.8million redevelopment by Page\Park Architects and was reopened to the public on 28 February 2010. Currently, much of the McManus collection, which includes works by Dundee-based artists James McIntosh Patrick and Alberto Morrocco, is located at the former Carnegie Library on Barrack Street. The collection includes three paintings by Thomas Musgrave Joy which celebrate Grace Darling's rescue of passengers on the paddlesteamer Forfarshire.
Il Museo d'arte di Basilea ospita la più grande ed importante collezione d'arte della Svizzera. Le sue origini risalgono all'acquisto del gabinetto Amerbach da parte della città di Basilea nel 1661: esso è quindi il primo museo in possesso di una comunità borghese cittadina d'Europa.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Il Los Angeles County Museum of Art è un museo d'arte di Los Angeles, in California, situato sul Wilshire Boulevard, lungo la cosiddetta Museum Row del Miracle Mile, accanto al Page Museum e a La Brea Tar Pits. Il LACMA è il più grande museo enciclopedico degli Stati Uniti a ovest di Chicago, con quasi un milione di visitatori all'anno e più di 10.000 opere d'arte, che spaziano dalla preistoria all'arte contemporanea. Il museo organizza spesso esibizioni d'arte, conferenze, proiezioni e concerti.
National Portrait Gallery (Londra)
La National Portrait Gallery di Londra è una celebre pinacoteca del Regno Unito, attualmente situata nei pressi di Trafalgar Square in St. Martin's Place, alle spalle della National Gallery. È tra i 20 musei più visitati al mondo, con più di 2 milioni di visitatori nel 2012. Al suo interno vi si trova una delle più vaste collezioni di ritratti al mondo: l'esposizione si articola su tre piani e conta più di 1300 opere collocate in ordine cronologico, dal Rinascimento all'epoca contemporanea.
The Musée Hébert is a museum located in the Hôtel de Montmorency-Bours at 85, rue du Cherche-Midi, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It has been closed since 2004 for renovations. The museum is housed within the Petit-Montmorency, constructed in 1743 by the Comte de Montmorency, and former home of academic painter Ernest Hébert . After his adopted son's death in 1974, the building became state property and opened as a museum in 1984. Since 2004, the museum Hébert has been affiliated with the Musée d’Orsay, and indefinitely closed for renovations. The museum contains collections of Hébert's work, furniture, decorative items, souvenirs, and photographs, set within rooms almost unchanged since the 18th century. His paintings include portraits of literary critic Jules Lemaître, and two noted grandes horizontales, La Païva and Madame de Loynes.
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre is a heritage attraction at Alexandra Dock, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, opened in 1991. The attraction is an Arts Council England Accredited Museum and holds a number of awards, including the TripAdvisor Hall of Fame, the Sandford Award for Heritage Education and the VisitEngland Quality Rose Marque. The centre was famed for its multi-sensory interpretation and lifelike manequins when it opened, winning the Attraction of the Year from the English Tourism Board and the Blue Peter Children's Museum of the Year award in 1993. It depicts the 1950s heyday of Great Grimsby's world famous fishing fleet, using displays consisting of preserved trawler interiors and carefully crafted recreations. The centre is also home to three historic fishing vessels. Perseverance is a sail trawler built in Boston Lincolnshire and is displayed in the main atrium of the museum. Ross Tiger is a 1957 side-trawler that is moored in the Alexandra Dock outside of the attraction. The G.I.C. or Esther is a large Grimsby sail trawler, built in 1888 at Alexandra Dock, close to the attraction. Tours of the Ross Tiger are available throughout the year, as well as a programme of temporary exhibitions in the attractions three gallery spaces.
Il Cincinnati Art Museum si trova a Cincinnati ed è uno dei primi musei degli Stati Uniti. Costruito nel 1881, fu il primo museo dedicato alle arti ad essere costruito a ovest dei Monti Allegheny. Le sue collezioni comprendono più di 60.000 pezzi, che spaziano nell'arte americana, europea e asiatica, facendone uno dei più importanti del Mid-West americano.
Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection
The Aberystwyth University Ceramic Collection & Archive is located in Aberystwyth, Wales. It holds one of the major collections of studio ceramics in Britain and is particularly noted for its studio pottery of the period 1920–1940. The permanent and temporary exhibitions from the collection are on display in the Ceramic Gallery in Aberystwyth Arts Centre and the archive office is located in the School of Art, Aberystwyth University. The Ceramic Bulletin is produced every two years by the university and it features news of activities including exhibitions, new acquisitions, research, awards and grants.
The Royal College of Physicians is a British professional body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded in 1518, it set the first international standard in the classification of diseases, and its library contains medical texts of great historical interest. The college hosts four training faculties: the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, the Faculty for Pharmaceutical Medicine, the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the Faculty of Physician Associates. The college is sometimes referred to as the Royal College of Physicians of London to differentiate it from other similarly named bodies. Its home in Regent's Park is one of the few post-war buildings to be granted Grade I listed status. In 2016 it was announced that the North of England centre of excellence was to be based at a new building in the Liverpool Knowledge Quarter in Liverpool. The new centre is set to open in 2020.
Ministero della difesa (Regno Unito)
Il Ministero della difesa è il dicastero del Governo di Sua Maestà deputato alla sicurezza e all'amministrazione delle forze armate britanniche.
La Biblioteca Bodleiana dell'Università di Oxford è una delle più antiche biblioteche pubbliche del mondo moderno - dopo la Malatestiana di Cesena, aperta al pubblico nel 1454 e quella dei Girolamini di Napoli, aperta al pubblico nel 1586; la sua fondazione risale al 1602 . In Inghilterra, la Bodleiana è seconda per dimensioni solo alla British Library. Presso gli studiosi è nota semplicemente come "Bod" . La Bodleian Library è una cosiddetta copyright library: significa che conserva almeno una copia di qualsiasi pubblicazione stampata in Inghilterra svolgendo la funzione che in Italia viene denominata deposito legale.
