Kirkcaldy Galleries is the main museum, library and exhibition space in Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland.
The land for the town's museum and art gallery was donated by John Nairn on the former site of Balsusney House, the home of John Maxton. This was opened in 1925, with the first chairman of trustees local cloth-manufacturer businessman John Blyth, the maternal grandfather of politician Michael Portillo.
The art gallery holds the largest collection of paintings by William McTaggart and Scottish Colourist Samuel Peploe aside from the National Galleries of Scotland.
The museum contains many significant works by the Glasgow Boys. Situated on the ground floor, is the museum's award-winning permanent exhibition covering the town's industrial heritage. The museum also has a cafe which displays examples of Wemyss Ware pottery, made in the town from around the 1890s to 1930s.In 2012 Fife Council undertook a £2.5m refurbishment of the building, which reopened in June 2013. It now contains a museum, library, children's library, PC suite, cafe, gift shop, meeting rooms, museum, local family and history rooms and gallery spaces.
The Galleries opening was attended by local author Val McDermid, Wolf from
Gladiators, MP and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and artist Jack Vettriano.
In 2015, Kirkcaldy Galleries became the first institution in Fife to display work by American photographer Diane Arbus.
The Museum of Croydon is a museum located within the Croydon Clocktower arts facility in Central Croydon, England. It showcases historical and cultural artefacts relating to the London Borough of Croydon and its people. The museum is owned and run by Croydon Council.
It is located on the upper ground floor of Croydon Clocktower, but also incorporates the Riesco Gallery, on the lower ground floor, which displays Roman and Anglo-Saxon collections and a collection of Chinese ceramics. The museum originally opened under the name Lifetimes in 1995; and re-opened under its present name, following a major redevelopment and redesign, in 2006. Admission is free, and many of the displays are hands-on and interactive.
The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum. It is located in the Chelsea district of central London, adjacent to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the home of the "Chelsea Pensioners". The museum is a non-departmental public body. It is usually open to the public from 10:00am to 5:30pm, except on 25–26 December and 1 January. Admission is free.
Having reopened in March 2017 following a major £23.75 million re-development project including £11.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the museum houses five galleries that cover British military history from the English Civil War up to modern day.This remit for the overall history of British land forces contrasts with those of other military museums in the United Kingdom concentrating on the history of individual corps and regiments of the British Army. It also differs from the subject matter of the Imperial War Museum, another national museum in London, which has a wider remit of theme but a narrower remit of time .
The Leicester Museum & Art Gallery is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. It opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the United Kingdom. New Walk contains displays of science, history and art, both international and local. The original building was designed by Joseph Hansom, designer of the hansom cab. It has been expanded several times, most recently in 2011.
The Shipley Art Gallery is an art gallery in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, located at the south end of Prince Consort Road. It has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Edinburgh College of Art is one of eleven Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, history of art, and music disciplines for over two thousand students, and is at the forefront of research and research-led teaching in the creative arts, humanities, and creative technologies. ECA comprises five subject areas: School of Art, Reid School of Music, School of Design, School of History of Art, and Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture . ECA is mainly located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, overlooking the Grassmarket; the Lauriston Place campus is located in the University of Edinburgh's Central Area Campus, not far from George Square.
The college was founded in 1760, and gained its present name and site in 1907. Formerly associated with Heriot-Watt University, its degrees have been issued by the University of Edinburgh since 2004. The College formally merged with the University on 1 August 2011, combining with the School of Arts, Culture and Environment and continues to exist with the name Edinburgh College of Art as an enlarged school in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
La British Library è la biblioteca nazionale del Regno Unito e una delle più importanti biblioteche di ricerca al mondo, con un patrimonio di più di 150 milioni di documenti e 13 milioni di nuove raccolte ogni anno. La biblioteca, situata a Londra, contiene i cataloghi della maggior parte dei libri della Biblioteca del Congresso e una raccolta di beni storici internazionali, alcuni dei quali risalgono al 300 a.C.. Nel marzo del 2004 la biblioteca possedeva 11,2 milioni di monografie e più di 41.500 riviste. La British Library raccoglie le copie di tutti i libri pubblicati nel Regno Unito e molte pubblicazioni estere.
Il Liechtenstein Museum è una pinacoteca di Vienna. Nella sua forma attuale è stato aperto il 29 marzo 2004. Nelle sale del museo viene presentata la collezione privata del Casato di Liechtenstein, una delle più grandi collezioni private del mondo.
The Usher Gallery is an art museum in Lincoln, England. The gallery displays a collection of artworks by painters such as J. M. W. Turner and L. S. Lowry. Established in 1927, it is run as part of the Collection. According to 2019 proposals by the Lincolnshire County Council, the gallery is scheduled for closure.
Il Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum è il museo "civico" di Glasgow in Scozia, situato in Argyle Street, nel West End, sulle rive del Kelvin. Si trova adiacente al Kelvingrove Park e in prossimità del campus principale dell'Università di Glasgow a Gilmorehill.
Il Philadelphia Museum of Art si trova ad ovest della Benjamin Franklin Parkway a Filadelfia. Fu fondato nel 1876 in occasione dell'Esposizione universale che celebrava il primo centenario della Dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d'America e venne inaugurato il 10 maggio 1877.
The Wellcome Library is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome , whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century. Henry Wellcome's interest was the history of medicine in a broad sense and included subjects such as alchemy or witchcraft, but also anthropology and ethnography. Since Henry Wellcome’s death in 1936, the Wellcome Trust has been responsible for maintaining the Library's collection and funding its acquisitions. The library is free and open to the public.
Il National Railway Museum è un museo, situato a York, parte del British National Museum of Science and Industry e dedicato alla storia dei trasporti ferroviari nel Regno Unito e al suo impatto sociale ed economico. È la sede della collezione nazionale dei veicoli ferroviari e di altri cimeli storicamente significativi. Dispone di un archivio storico e d'una biblioteca. Collabora con l'Università di York e con altre istituzioni di ricerca.
Il Musée des Augustins di Tolosa, in Francia, è un museo di belle arti che conserva una collezione di sculture e dipinti dal Medioevo al primo Novecento. I dipinti provengono da tutta la Francia; la collezione di sculture, che rappresentano la cultura occitana della regione, è particolarmente ricca di opere romaniche.
The Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Carlisle, Cumbria, in England. Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted. At first the building contained the museum and also a library, an art school and a technical school.The building, including the extensions, is a Grade I listed building, and the wall, gates and railings in front of the house are separately Grade I listed.The two schools were moved in the 1950s and the library in 1986. The museum expanded into the city Guildhall in 1980 and with new space available from 1986 it underwent an extensive redevelopment over 1989–90 and again in 2000–01.
Since May 2011 the museum has been an independent charitable trust, the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust. It is one of the three members of the Cumbria Museum Consortium, along with Lakeland Arts and the Wordsworth Trust. In 2012–15 and 2015–18 this consortium was one of the 21 museums or consortia to be funded by Arts Council England as "Major Partner Museums".
I Musei reali delle belle arti del Belgio sono tra i principali musei del Belgio. Si trovano nella capitale, Bruxelles, nella zona chiamata Coudenberg. I musei sono costituiti da quattro differenti collezioni; due che occupano gli edifici del museo , due situati in altri edifici. I due musei indipendenti, il Museo Constantin Meunier e il Museo Antoine Wiertz sono più piccoli dei due principali e dedicati in particolare al Belgio.
I Musei ospitano 20000 tra dipinti, disegni e sculture provenienti da tutto il mondo e di disparate epoche storiche dal XV secolo ad oggi. Vanto dei Musei è la collezione di dipinti fiamminghi, che comprende opere di Rogier van der Weyden, Pieter Bruegel il Vecchio, Robert Campin, Antoon van Dyck e Jacob Jordaens. A Rubens è dedicata un'intera sala, dove sono esposti venti capolavori dell'artista. Un'altra sala è dedicata a Henri de Braekeleer, con ventitré dipinti.
La Pinacoteca Nazionale–Museo Alexandros Soutzos è un museo d'arte ad Atene dedicato all'arte greca ed europea dal XIV al XX secolo. È diretto da Marina Lambraki-Plaka.
