The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library is a library of psychoactive drug-related literature created in 1970 by Michael D. Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, William Dailey, and Robert Barker, who merged their private libraries. It was named for Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author of the first full-length work of drug literature written by an American, The Hasheesh Eater . It was the largest such library in the world and was based in San Francisco, California. The Ludlow Library became part of the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2003. After the death of its owner, Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr., his family loaned the book collection to the Houghton Library at Harvard University and the music collection to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
During the 1970s the library grew rapidly and operated out of San Francisco as an international resource for psychoactive drug research, and for the study of psychoactive drug use in contemporary and historical societies. The Ludlow Library flourished during a period of perhaps the most intense media interest ever focused on the personal, social, scientific and political aspects of drug experience. The Library helped hundreds of writers, filmmakers, and news media researchers collect accurate historical information on cannabis, the opiates, coca and cocaine, and psychedelics for their publications.
The library was curated by Michael R. Aldrich, holder of the first Ph.D. ever granted from an American university in the mythology and folklore of cannabis , and he and his wife Michelle Aldrich joined the co-founders as members of the Board of Directors in 1974. The Library's advisory Board of Trustees included a number of eminent researchers and writers, including Chauncey Leake, Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin, Andrew Weil, Oscar Janiger, Ralph Metzner, Laura Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Weston LaBarre, R. Gordon Wasson, Tod H. Mikuriya, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Liverpool Hope University is a public university with campuses in Liverpool, England. The university grew out of three Christian teacher training colleges: Saint Katharine's College , Notre Dame College, and Christ's College. Uniquely in European higher education the university has an ecumenical tradition, with Saint Katharine's College having been Anglican and Notre Dame and Christ's both Catholic. The Anglican Bishop of Liverpool David Sheppard and the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool Derek Worlock played a prominent role in its formation. Its name derives from Hope Street, the road which connects the city's Anglican and Catholic cathedrals, where graduation ceremonies are alternately held.Whilst the university includes active researchers, it has gained recognition primarily for its teaching. In the late 2010s it achieved a Gold rating in the UK Government's Teaching Excellence Framework , and rankings in teaching-focused league tables comparable with lower-performing Russell Group universities.The current Vice Chanceller Gerald Pillay has summarised the university as a small liberal arts college-style environment where "[students are] a name, not a number." Its "small and beautiful" ethos has been contrasted with the larger neighbouring University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University .
Il Lincoln College è uno dei collegi costituenti l'Università di Oxford. Fondato nel 1427 da Richard Fleming, vescovo di Lincoln, è il nono in ordine di longevità fra i 38 collegi di Oxford. Inizialmente basato su una forte tradizione religiosa, rimane oggi uno dei più piccoli collegi dell'università anche se risulta spesso nella top ten della Norrington table, una classifica basata sui risultati degli studenti negli esami.
Architetturalmente, il Lincoln possiede tre quadrangles, risalenti rispettivamente al XV, XVII e XIX secolo. La cappella, in stile gotico, è del 1630 mentre la biblioteca è particolare poiché occupa la All Saints Church, una chiesa datata 1122 ed adiacente al sito del collegio.
The State Museum for Art and Cultural History is an art museum consisting of three separate buildings located close to each other in the city of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.The three museum locations are:
Schloss Oldenburg
Augusteum
Prinzenpalais The museum was established in 1919 after the abdication the previous year of Frederick Augustus II, the last Grand Duke of Oldenburg. The initial collection consisted of the former Grand Duke's picture gallery, a collection of antiquities, and the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts and the former National Picture Gallery.
The three buildings are all located close to the northeast corner of the Schlossgarten Oldenburg, now Oldenburg's main public park.
La Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen si trova in Grabbeplatz 5 a Düsseldorf in Germania: è un museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea internazionale.
Il museo ha due sedi, denominate K20 e K21: il K20, la cui collezione si compone di opere d'arte occidentale e statunitense, è affacciato sulla Grabbeplatz di fronte alla Staatliche Kunsthalle ed al Kunstverein mentre il K21, la cui collezione è centralizzata su opere successive al 1960, si trova nei pressi di Ständehaus.
Il museo espone opere di: Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Alexej Jawlensky, Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Arp, ecc.
The Institut Néerlandais was a non-profit institution in Paris devoted to the promotion of Dutch art and culture. One of the earliest foreign cultural centers in Paris, it was founded in 1957 by Frits Lugt. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the sole financier of the center announced its closure in 2013. It closed in December 2013.
La Residenza di Würzburg è un palazzo che si trova nella città di Würzburg, in Germania.
Il palazzo venne progettato da uno degli architetti più importanti del barocco, Johann Balthasar Neumann, su commissione del principe vescovo Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn e del fratello Friedrich Carl nel 1720 e venne ultimata nel 1744. All'interno si trovano splendidi affreschi realizzati dal pittore veneziano Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, assistito dal figlio Giandomenico. Fra gli scorci di maggior pregio dell'interno vanno ricordate la monumentale scalinata, la cappella e il salone. La Residenza di Würzburg subì gravissimi danni durante i bombardamenti della seconda guerra mondiale, finita la quale iniziarono imponenti lavori di restauro.
Horsham Museum is a museum at Horsham, West Sussex, in South East England. It was founded in August 1893 by volunteers of the Free Christian Church and became part of Horsham District Council in 1974. It is a fully accredited museum and serves both Horsham and its district with the support of the Friends of Horsham Museum and an active volunteer base.
Hertford Museum is a local museum in Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England.The museum first opened in 1903 and is located in a 17th-century town house with a Jacobean-style knot garden. The galleries on the ground floor present the early history of the museum. Objects include exotic animals, fossils, and Japanese armour. The first floor presents the town and people of Hertford. The collections cover local, military, natural, and social history, as well as archaeology, fine art, and geology.The museum undertakes educational activities with schools. For example, Little Munden Primary School took part in a pilot project, working with the museum, to create an exhibition about their locality covering the period 1830–1930.The museum closed in Winter 2008 for major refurbishment, largely funded by a Heritage Grant from the UK Heritage Lottery Fund. It reopened on 27 February 2010.
The Haggin Museum is an art museum and local history museum in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, located in the city's Victory Park. The museum opened in 1931. Its art collection includes works by European painters Jean Béraud, Rosa Bonheur, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and sculptures by René de Saint-Marceaux, Alfred Barye, and Auguste Rodin. The museum also features a number of works by Hudson River School and California landscape painters, including the largest collection of Albert Bierstadt works in the region, and in 2017 dedicated a gallery to display the largest public collection of original artworks by J. C. Leyendecker.
Il Museo Granet è il museo d'arte della Città di Aix-en-Provence, situato in Place Saint-Jean de Malte. Il museo fu aperto al pubblico nel 1838 ed è attualmente uno dei maggiori e più famosi musei di provincia francesi. Possiede infatti un notevole e ricco patrimonio di opere di pittura e di scultura. Inoltre promuove sovente al suo interno delle splendide esposizioni temporanee di collezioni d'arte.
A partire dal 2013, la Cappella dei "Pénitents blancs d'Aix-en-Provence", compresa nel museo e anch'essa monumento storico, ospita « Granet XX », una mostra particolare, variabile e ricorrente, che espone numerose opere contemporanee, messe in deposito dalla Fondazione Jean Planque nel 2011, in particolare opere di Picasso e Kandinsky.
Gloucester Shire Hall is a municipal building in Westgate Street, Gloucester. It is the main office and the meeting place of Gloucestershire County Council. It is a grade II listed building.
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service, formerly Tyne and Wear Metropolitan Fire Brigade, is the fire and rescue service for the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. The service provides emergency fire cover to the five comprising metropolitan boroughs of Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and South Tyneside, serving a population of 1.09 million people and a total geographical area of 538 square kilometres. Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Authority is responsible for the running of the service, as well as the publication of performance indicators in accordance with its legal obligations. In April 2017, Chris Lowther was appointed Chief Fire Officer. In November 2018, the service announced proposals to cut frontline operations in order to meet budget requirements imposed by the Government. The proposals are currently under public consultation and members of the public are welcome to complete the consultation survey and attend the remaining meetings, a full list of which can be found at the Tyne and Wear Fire Service website. The public consultation ends in January 2019.
Palazzo Abatellis è un antico palazzo nobiliare situato a Palermo in via Alloro, arteria principale del quartiere della Kalsa. È sede dal 1954 della Galleria Regionale della Sicilia.
La Galleria nazionale di Parma si trova in piazza della Pilotta 6 a Parma, all'interno del palazzo della Pilotta. Il museo espone, tra le altre, opere di Beato Angelico, Canaletto, Guercino, Leonardo da Vinci, Parmigianino, Tintoretto, Correggio, Sebastiano del Piombo.
Il palazzo Rodolfo e Gio Francesco Brignole Sale o Palazzo Rosso è un edificio sito in via Garibaldi al civico 18 nel centro storico di Genova, inserito il 13 luglio del 2006 nella lista dei 42 palazzi iscritti ai Rolli di Genova, riconosciuti in tale data Patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO. Ospita la prima sezione dei Musei di Strada Nuova, che comprendono anche palazzo Bianco e palazzo Doria-Tursi, dedicata principalmente alle collezioni d'arte dei Brignole-Sale, in parte ospitate in sale che conservano l'arredo e la decorazione originale.
The National Art Gallery also known as Gallery of National Art is located in the Plaza Morelos area of Caracas, Venezuela. The museum opened in May 1976. In 2009 it moved to a new building designed by Carlos Gómez de Llerena, Venezuela's largest museum building.
Il Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art è situato nel campus della University of Minnesota Twin Cities a Minneapolis, Minnesota ed è stato un museo didattico per l'università sin dal 1934. L'edificio del museo, progettato dal noto architetto Frank Gehry, fu completato nel 1993.
