Il Somerville College è uno dei collegi costituenti l'Università di Oxford. Fondato nel 1879, era originariamente aperto solo alle donne; creato allo stesso tempo del Lady Margaret Hall per aumentare il numero di studentesse ad Oxford, il Somerville aveva nelle origini un'impostazione meno religiosa, e fu dedicato alla memoria di Mary Somerville, una matematica scozzese scomparsa in quegli anni.
Durante la prima guerra mondiale fu temporaneamente convertito in un ospedale, nel quale anche Robert Graves e Siegfried Sassoon furono pazienti.
Il collegio fu aperto agli uomini a partire dal 1992.
The Scott Polar Research Institute is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge.
SPRI was founded by Frank Debenham in 1920 as the national memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions, who died on their return journey from the South Pole in 1912. It investigates issues relevant to the Arctic and Antarctic in the environmental sciences, social sciences and humanities. The Institute is home the Polar Museum and has some 60 personnel, consisting of academic, library and support staff plus postgraduate students, associates and fellows attached to research programmes. The Institute also hosts the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Il Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard, abbreviato in Queens' College, è una delle più antiche scuole costituenti l'Università di Cambridge.
Fu fondato nel 1448 da Margherita d'Angiò, moglie del sovrano Enrico VI, a sua volta fondatore del King's College.
Nel 1465 fu rifondato da Elisabetta Woodville, regina consorte di Edoardo IV e questa doppia progenitura giustifica l'ortografia del nome che rende omaggio a entrambe le fondatrici; il nome completo della scuola è un tributo ai santi Margherita di Antiochia e Bernardo di Chiaravalle.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery in the Drake Circus area of Plymouth, Devon, England was built in 1907–10 by Thornely and Rooke in Edwardian Baroque style. The building closed in late 2016. Along with the former Central Library building and St Luke's Church on Tavistock Place, it has since been redeveloped into The Box, Plymouth. This major new museum, gallery and archive is scheduled to open in 2020.
La sede museale di Palazzo Schifanoia è ospitata in una Delizia estense in via Scandiana 23, a Ferrara. Il palazzo è stato costruito nel 1385 ed il nome scelto intendeva sottolineare la sua funzione presso la corte estense, cioè di edificio destinato al riposo ed allo svago.
Il National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center è un museo di Washington che raccoglie, conserva e mostra il patrimonio degli Stati Uniti nel campo della storia sociale, politica, culturale, scientifica e militare.
È situato lungo il National Mall e tra gli oggetti esposti vi sono la versione originale della Bandiera degli Stati Uniti e la sedia appartenuta ad Archie Bunker.
Palace House is the home of the National Horse Racing Museum in the remaining part of Charles II's racing palace in Newmarket, Suffolk, England. It is home to the National Horse Racing Museum, the British Sporting Art Trust and Retraining of Racehorses, and was opened by Elizabeth II in 2016.
The Crocker Art Museum, formerly the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, founded in 1885, is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. Located in Sacramento, California, the Museum holds one of the state's premier collections of Californian art. The museum contains American works dating from the Gold Rush to the present, European paintings and master drawings, one of the largest international ceramics collections in the U.S., and collections of Asian, African, and Oceanic art.
Cannon Hall is a country house museum located between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland some 5 miles west of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Originally the home of the Spencer and later the Spencer-Stanhope family, it now houses collections of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware. It at one time housed the Regimental Museum of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and the Light Dragoons, which has now closed. Now occupying four rooms in the east wing is the "Family of Artists" exhibition on loan from the De Morgan Foundation, which draws on the links between the Spencer Stanhopes and the De Morgans.The building is constructed of coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings with a symmetrical layout of a central 3-storey block of 5 bays and slightly set back 2-storey side wings of 3 bays.
La Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana è un'istituzione ecclesiastica comprendente una biblioteca pubblica, una pinacoteca e un'accademia di studi, fondata nel 1607 dal cardinale Federico Borromeo, situata nel comune di Milano all'interno del Palazzo dell'Ambrosiana.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design is an art museum in Providence affiliated with the Rhode Island School of Design, in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The museum was founded in 1877 and is the 20th largest art museum in the United States.
Antony House is the name of an early 18th-century house, which today is in the ownership of the National Trust. It is located between the town of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a Grade I listed building.
The house is faced in silvery-grey Pentewan stone, flanked by colonnaded wings of mellow brick and overlooks the River Lynher. It was built for Sir William Carew, 5th Baronet between 1718 and 1724, and ever since has continued as the primary residence of the Carew family, who have owned the estate since the mid-16th century. Sir John Carew Pole gave the house and formal gardens into the care of the National Trust in 1961, on the understanding that the family could continue to reside there. Currently Tremayne Carew Pole, lives there with his family.
The house and gardens are open to viewing by the public between March and October.
Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey in the district of Trafford, near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. It is now a National Trust property, open to the public. During World War I it was the Stamford Military Hospital.The stately home was designated a Grade One listed-building on 5 March 1959. It has been owned by the National Trust since the death of the 10th and last Earl of Stamford in 1976. Over 340,000 people visited the house in 2014/15, placing it in the ten most popular National Trust houses.Dunham Massey was built in the early 17th century by the Earls of Warrington, passing to the Earls of Stamford by inheritance; the family still live in part of the house. There were significant alterations, especially internally, at the start of the 20th century. It has historic formal gardens and a deer park. The park and gardens are listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It was formerly in the ancient parish of Bowdon, Cheshire.
Il Museo nazionale d'arte della Catalogna , conosciuto anche con la sigla MNAC, si trova nella città di Barcellona e vanta una collezione di arte romanica tra le più significative al mondo.
La sua strategia si articola intorno a tre punti cardine:
la collezione: la sua ragion d'essere;
l'aspetto sociale: un museo per tutti;
lo sviluppo: diffusione della conoscenza e ricerca.
The Musée départemental de l'Oise is a museum in the former bishop's palace in Beauvais, Oise, in northern France. It is classified as a historical monument.
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is a museum located in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, featuring several art collections. The permanent collection includes examples of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculpture, Southern regional art, Old Master prints and decorative arts. It is also home to ARTWORKS, a participatory art gallery and studio for children.
The current building was designed by the Montgomery architectural firm of Barganier, Davis, and Sims and opened in 1988. An addition was completed in 1993.
