The Kansas City Museum is a museum located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Housed in a historic 1910 Beaux-Arts style mansion and private estate of lumber baron and civic leader Robert A. Long, the Kansas City Museum became a public museum in 1940. Seventy-five years later, the Museum is under extensive renovation.
see also the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, scheduled to open 2018Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The original building was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence as part of his "main university quadrangle," now known as the Memorial Quadrangle. Its first Director, Asian art collector, and female museum specialist Gertrude Bass Warner also influenced the buildings design, particularly its innovative climate control measures. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
La Galleria nazionale di belle arti della Giordania è un importante museo di arte contemporanea situato ad Amman, in Giordania. L'inaugurazione ufficiale della Galleria si è svolta sotto il patronato del defunto re Hussein e della regine Noor Al Hussein. Fondata nel 1980 dalla Royal Society of Fine Arts, la collezione permanente del museo "comprende oltre 2000 opere tra dipinti, stampe, sculture, stampe, sculture, fotografie, installazioni, intrecci e ceramiche di oltre 800 artisti provenienti da 59 paesi, principalmente da Asia e Africa."
Lo Joods Historisch Museum è un museo di Amsterdam dedicato alla storia, alla cultura e alla religione del popolo ebraico.
È l'unico museo sull'Ebraismo in tutti i Paesi Bassi e il più importante museo del genere al di fuori di Israele.
Il museo è ospitato dal 1987 in quattro sinagoghe costruite dagli Ebrei Ashkenazi tra la seconda metà del XVII e la metà del XVIII secolo, abbandonate durante la seconda guerra mondiale, restaurate negli anni settanta- ottanta e collegate tra loro attraverso passaggi pedonali in vetro. Si tratta della Grote Sjoel o Grote Synagoge , dell' Obbene Sjoel , della Dritt Sjoel e dalla Neie Sjoel o Nieuwe Synagoge .In precedenza , il museo era ubicato nella Waag , l'ex-pesa pubblica in Nieuwmarkt. Parte della collezione trovò inoltre temporaneamente posto, tra il 1939 e il 1943, nello Stedelijk Museum.
L'Università Johns Hopkins è un'università degli Stati Uniti. Si tratta di un istituto universitario privato di Baltimora nel Maryland, fondato nel 1876 durante la presidenza di Ulysses S. Grant, grazie al lascito di 7 milioni di dollari donati dall'uomo d'affari statunitense Johns Hopkins. Successivamente, nel 1893, lo stesso lascito finanziò l'apertura del Johns Hopkins Hospital destinato anche a una facoltà di medicina. L'Università Johns Hopkins è organizzata in 10 divisioni: nei campus nel Maryland e Washington, con centri internazionali in Italia, Cina e Singapore.L'istituzione è definita come la prima "università di ricerca" del paese. All'inizio della sua storia l'università è sempre stata ispirata principalmente dall'Università di Heidelberg e dal modello di insegnamento tedesco secondo Wilhelm von Humboldt.
Jersey City Museum is an art museum located Jersey City, New Jersey. Its original incarnation was part of the public library and opened in 1901.
It relocated to a new building in 2001, but due to financial difficulties closed in 2010. As of 2018, a new, unaffiliated organization, bearing the name is in the process of preparing a new building at Journal Square.
L'Università Jagellonica è un'università di Cracovia.
È la più antica università del Paese, fondata nel 1364 da Casimiro III di Polonia come Akademia Krakowska, ed è quindi una delle più antiche al mondo, la seconda più longeva dell'Europa orientale, dopo l'Università Carolina. Nel XIX secolo le fu dato il nome di Jagellonica per onorare la dinastia dei sovrani che governarono il Paese dal 1386 al 1572.
L'Ambasciata d'Italia a Londra è la missione diplomatica della Repubblica Italiana presso il Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord.
La sede dell'ambasciata si trova a Londra, a Palazzo Grosvenor, al n°14 di Three Kings Yard, anche se l'ingresso alla sede diplomatica è di fatto a Grosvenor Square, a Mayfair.
Iona è una piccola isola, larga 1,6 km e lunga 5,6 km, appartenente alle Ebridi Interne, in Scozia. Il suo nome in lingua gaelica scozzese è Ì Chaluim Cille , o talvolta solo Ì o Idhe. Essa dista circa un chilometro e mezzo dalla costa dell'isola di Mull. Ha una popolazione residente di 175 persone.
Il cimitero degli Invalidi è uno dei cimiteri più antichi di Berlino ed è stato creato nel 1748 per accogliervi le spoglie di militari prussiani ed è situato nel quartiere di Mitte. Posto sotto tutela monumentale , in seguito all'abbattimento del Muro di Berlino è stato inserito nel piano di protezione dei monumenti e giardini storici e ne è iniziato il restauro.
The Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura , located in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, is the Mexican institution in charge of coordinating artistic and cultural activities in the country.
On November 23, 1946, president Miguel Alemán Valdés proposed the creation of the INBA, and it was formally opened on 1 January 1947, as a branch of the Secretaría de Educación Pública . The first head of the INBA was Carlos Chávez, who created a new orchestra for the Conservatory, the current Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.The institute includes many departments, artistic ensembles, three national centers for storage of the literary stock, 29 schools and further institutions. The school of design and handicrafts was founded by José Chávez Morado in 1962.One of the important services the institute provides for the nation is to protect, along with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, monuments and buildings deemed cultural patrimony. INAH is entrusted with 'archaeological' and 'historical' structures, zones and remnants, while INBAL is entrusted with 'artistic' buildings and monuments . The valuation of aesthetic value is left to the Comisión Nacional de Zonas y Monumentos Artísticos . This commission is composed of the Director of INBAL, a representative of the Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano y Ecología, a representative of UNAM, and three individuals affiliated with the arts picked by the Director. Edifices deemed worthy by the commission are catalogued in the Registro Público de Monumentos y Zonas Artísticos .The institute provides education from elementary school through to postgraduate level; one of the educational institutions that INBAL manages is CEDARTS which is focused on artistic education.
There are 12 CEDARTS in Mexico, three in Mexico City and the rest in some other states.
CEDART "Alfonso Reyes" Monterrey, Nuevo León
CEDART "David Alfaro Siqueiros" Chihuahua, Chihuahua
CEDART "Diego Rivera" Ciudad de México, CDMX
CEDART "Emilio Abreu Gómez" Mérida, Yucatán
CEDART "Frida Kahlo" Ciudad de México, CDMX
CEDART "Ignacio Mariano de las Casas" Querétaro, Querétaro
CEDART "José Clemente Orozco" Guadalajara, Jalisco
CEDART "José Eduardo Pierson" Hermosillo, Sonora
CEDART "Juan Rulfo" Colima, Colima
CEDART "Luis Spota Saavedra" Ciudad de México, CDMX
CEDART "Miguel Bernal Jiménez" Morelia, Michoacán
CEDART "Miguel Cabrera" Oaxaca, OaxacaIn addition to the educational offerings, there are museums, galleries and buildings under the INBAL management, that the institute often uses to present different types of artistic entertainment to the general public, such as "tempestad" or a season of flamenco dance.
The Indiana Memorial Union is a student union building at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana United States. It is located at 900 E 7th Street, facing the Jordan River and the Dunn Meadow.
The Indiana Memorial Union was dedicated on June 13, 1932. At nearly 500,000 square feet , it is one of the world's largest student unions. The IMU contains a hotel, restaurants, a bookstore, a bowling alley, a movie theater, a beauty salon, an electronics store and gathering spaces for lecturers, meetings, conferences and performances. The building also houses IU's student government offices within the Student Activities Tower, where as many as 50 campus organizations conduct regular meetings.Initial construction of the building took place from 1931–1932, and was designed by the firm Granger and Bollenbacher. The Biddle Hotel and Conference Center was added in 1960. The wing contains 189 guest rooms and over 50,000 square feet of meeting space. The IMU hosts more than 17,000 events every year.On the first floor of the IMU the Memorial Room pays tribute to members of the Indiana University community that have served in the U.S. military. Contained within this room is the Golden Book, which contains the names of IU's service members going back to the War of 1812.John Whittenberger, a student, founded the Indiana Union in 1909. Every student at Indiana University's Bloomington campus is a member of the Indiana Memorial Union by default. The Indiana Memorial Union Board is the governing body of the Indiana Memorial Union. The Union Board is led by a group of 16 student directors, a faculty representative, an administrative representative, an alumni representative, and the Executive Director of the Indiana Memorial Union. This 20-person committee is known as the Union Board of Directors.
The Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia was established in 1972. It houses the art collection of the University of Melbourne. Current director, Kelly Gellatly, was appointed in 2013.The Potter, as it is known locally, presents a curated exhibition program of historical and contemporary art. Through its activities the Potter provides for the acquisition, maintenance, conservation, cataloguing, exhibition, investigation, interpretation and promotion of the extensive art collections of the University of Melbourne.
The current building opened in 1998 and was designed by the architect Nonda Katsalidis of Katsalidis Architects. The architect project team included Bill Krotiris, Adrian Amore, Lisette Agius, Donna Brzezinski, Keiran Boyle, Kei Lu Cheong, Luisa Di Gregorio, Holger Frese, Chris Godsell, Robert Kolak, Barbara Moje, Rainer Strunz, Marius Vogl, Jackie Wagner.
