The Grundy is an art gallery located in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Its eclectic programme consists of regional historic to recent contemporary art exhibitions. Opened in 1911, it is owned and operated by Blackpool Council. It is a Grade II listed Edwardian building. Together with the adjoining Central library it was listed on 20 October 1983.
Il Bolton Museum è un museo e galleria d'arte della città di Bolton, Grande Manchester, nel nord dell'inghilterra, di proprietà del Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.
Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities.Kettle's Yard galleries, shop and cafe are open Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm. The House is open Tuesday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm. Free, timed entry tickets to the House are available from the information desk. Online booking is coming soon.
The Fleming Collection is a large private collection of Scottish art. It was on display in a gallery in Berkeley Square, central London, England until the gallery's closure in 2016.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeology, and geology. Altogether the museum holds over one million objects, of which a small percentage is on permanent public display. It is a 'Major Partner Museum' under the Arts Council England administered programme of strategic investment, which means RAMM receives funding to develop its services. RAMM receives this funding in partnership with Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery. Previously they were described as 'hub museums' under the 'Renaissance' Programme for regional museums which operated between 2002–11 and funded by the now defunct Museums Libraries & Archives Council . Founded in 1868, the museum is housed in a Gothic Revival building of local New Red Sandstone that has undergone several extensions during its history; most recently, the museum was re-opened on 15 December 2011 after a redevelopment lasting four years and costing £24M. Since its re-opening the museum has received several awards.
Basilica di San Francesco (Arezzo)
La basilica di San Francesco è un importante luogo di culto cattolico di Arezzo, famoso soprattutto per le Storie della Vera Croce, un ciclo di affreschi di Piero della Francesca presenti nella cappella. Nel febbraio del 1955 papa Pio XII l'ha elevata alla dignità di basilica minore.Oltre ad essere un luogo di culto, la Basilica è un Museo Statale sotto la direzione del Polo Museale della Toscana. Gli ingressi all'interno della Cappella Bacci vengono contingentati in fasce orarie ed è per questo richiesta una prenotazione obbligatoria.
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum in the cathedral city of Hereford, Herefordshire, England.The museum is housed in a Victorian Gothic building. Through the generosity of James Rankin, President of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, it was opened as a free library and museum on 8 October 1874 and has since exhibited artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.
English Heritage, prima conosciuto come Historic Building and Monuments Commission for England , è un organismo pubblico inglese che si incarica della gestione del patrimonio culturale dell'Inghilterra. L'English Heritage si definisce come « il consigliere legale del governo sul patrimonio storico ». Dipende dal ministero della cultura, dei media e dello sport . Il suo ruolo principale è quello di gestire un gran numero di siti storici ed archeologici di primo piano, dalle vestigia preistoriche di Stonehenge al relativamente moderno Iron Bridge. Si occupa anche di conservare, registrare e proteggere il patrimonio storico, inoltre consiglia direttamente il segretario di stato sulla politica di conservazione e la classificazione dei vari monumenti. English Heritage possiede direttamente numerosi siti, ma collabora anche con proprietari ed associazioni minori; collabora frequentemente con il National Trust inglese. English Heritage è stato fondato nel 1983, e conta nel 2010 oltre 400 siti sparsi nel paese. Dal 1999 al 2008 ha creato l'iniziativa Images of England, un progetto che ha raccolto 323.107 fotografie di tutti i siti appartenenti ai monumenti classificati di Gran Bretagna. Chiunque può iscriversi ad English Heritage: l'adesione conferisce dei vantaggi come l'ingresso gratuito nelle sue proprietà, ma non dà ai membri nessun potere sulla gestione dell'organizzazione, che dipende dal governo .
Il Museo Nazionale del Bargello è un museo di Firenze, dedicato alla scultura, facente parte insieme alle Cappelle Medicee, Orsanmichele, Palazzo Davanzati e Casa Martelli, dei Musei del Bargello. La sua collezione di statue rinascimentali è considerata tra le più notevoli a livello mondiale: annovera infatti capolavori di Michelangelo, Donatello, Ghiberti, Cellini, Giambologna, Ammannati ed altri importanti scultori, oltre a una grande raccolta di arti applicate, organizzate principalmente per tipologia. Il nome deriva dal palazzo del Bargello, detto anche palazzo del Popolo. Nel 2016 è stato il trentasettesimo museo più visitato d'Italia con 213.598 visitatori, in calo rispetto al 2015.
Il Petit Palais è un padiglione espositivo oggi divenuto museo costruito per l'Esposizione universale del 1900 su progetto dell'architetto francese Charles Girault. È classificato come monumento storico e si trova in avenue Winston-Churchill - nell'VIII arrondissement - a Parigi, in Francia. Costruito insieme al Grand Palais - posto dirimpetto - e al ponte Alessandro III, ospita oggi il Museo di belle arti della città di Parigi . Si trova nello spazio dei Giardini degli Champs Élysées.
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry. Both Barry's buildings are listed. The building that links them was designed by Hopkins Architects following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions. It opened in 2002 following a major renovation and expansion project undertaken by the art gallery. Manchester Art Gallery is free to enter and open seven days a week. It houses many works of local and international significance and has a collection of more than 25,000 objects. More than half a million people visited the museum in the period of a year, according to figures released in April 2014.
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight. The exhibit was discovered in Eppleton quarry. The museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.It was established in 1846, in the Athenaeum Building on Fawcett Street, the first municipally funded museum in the country outside London. The first recorded fine art acquisition was commissioned by the Sunderland Corporation, a painting of the opening of the new South Dock in 1850. This may have been the first time that an artwork was commissioned by a town council.In 1879, the Museum moved to a new larger building next to Mowbray Park including a library and winter garden based on the model of the Crystal Palace. U.S. President Ulysses Grant was in attendance at the laying of the foundation stone by Alderman Samuel Storey in 1877. The building opened in 1879.During World War II, Winter Garden was damaged by a parachute mine in 1941 and later was demolished with a 1960s extension taking its place, but in 2001, a lottery funded refurbishment of the museum created a new Winter Garden extension and improved facilities. The Winter Gardens contain over 2,000 flowers and plants.In 2003, the Museum was recognised as the most attended outside London. The Museum contains a large collection of the locally made Sunderland Lustreware pottery. Other highlights of the Museum are a stuffed Lion which was acquired in 1879, the remains of a walrus brought back from Siberia in the 1880s and the first Nissan car to be made in Sunderland. Also featured are the skeletal remains of a male human being. The library moved in 1995 to the new City Library and Arts Centre on Fawcett Street . The relocation left more space for museum exhibitions. The new City Library Arts Centre also houses the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, renowned as one of the leading forums for emerging artists in the North of England. John Morrison wrote an affectionate memoir of the two and a half years he spent working in the museum as a junior curator, starting about 1918, which appeared in the Australian literary journal Overland in 1968.L.S. Lowry described his discovery of Sunderland in 1960, after which it became his second home: "One day I was travelling south from Tyneside and I realised this was what I had always been looking for." Sunderland Museum, with six works and 30 on long-term loan, have a Lowry collection surpassed only by Salford and Manchester.
The Treasure House is a cultural centre operated by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The centre acts as the main hub for heritage and information services, and contains the East Riding Archives and Local Studies, the Beverley Library, a Museum and the Beverley Art Gallery. The building also contains a coffee lounge and gift shop. The top floor, known as 'The Tower', serves as an elevated sightseeing platform, showcasing 360 degree views of the Beverley Minster and the town of Beverley.
Il Van Gogh Museum è un museo statale situato ad Amsterdam, nei Paesi Bassi che possiede la più grande collezione di opere del pittore olandese Vincent van Gogh.
Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright. The gallery which opened in 1904 initially had a display of artworks loaned from other galleries and private collections until it was able to purchase a permanent collection of Victorian and Edwardian works using money raised by the 1904 Bradford Exhibition.Cartwright Hall stands in Lister Park and enjoys scenic views of the city. Cartwright Hall has been held to represent "Bradford Baroque", a style of architecture typical of Bradford. It is however designed by the same architects as Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , also in the Baroque style.The purpose-built gallery is home to a collection of permanent works, from Old Masters to 20th-century British paintings and sculpture. Cartwright Hall also has a biennial open exhibition and contemporary and historical exhibitions by local, national and international artists. Since the mid 1980s the Bradford museum group has collected works that are associated with the cultural background of many post-war migrants to the Bradford area. Acquisitions include contemporary South Asian Art - Islamic calligraphy, phulkari style illustrated textiles and items of contemporary Sikh art, including a portrait of Guru Nanak.In 1983 Cartwright Hall was briefly used as part of the musical number 'every sperm is sacred' in the Monty Python film, The Meaning of Life.In 2003 an Unreal Tournament map was created featuring the inside of the hall as part of a contest for PC Format Magazine.
Renania Settentrionale-Vestfalia
Il Wallraf-Richartz Museum è situato nel centro storico di Colonia e ospita una delle pinacoteche più importanti della Germania. L'edificio, opera dell'architetto Oswald Mathias Ungers, è stato inaugurato nel 1861. L'edificio sorge nella parte più monumentale di Colonia, lungo l'itinerario pedonale che va dalla sponda del Reno fino alla cattedrale gotica, ed è nato per accogliere le collezioni di due musei, con l'aggiunta del sistema di servizi per il pubblico, di una sala polivalente e di un foyer. Tutto ruota attorno allo scalone e l'edificio si caratterizza per il resto per una marcata ripetitività nelle forme, in dialogo con il rigore formale della cattedrale.
I Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , più noti come Kew Gardens, sono un esteso complesso di serre e giardini ubicati tra Richmond upon Thames e Kew, a circa 10 km a sud-ovest di Londra, in Inghilterra.
Il Museo di Stato Russo , precedentemente Museo Russo di Sua Maestà Imperiale Alessandro III, è uno dei più importanti musei di San Pietroburgo, interamente dedicato all'arte russa, la cui sede principale si trova nello splendido Palazzo Michajlovskij, opera dell'architetto italiano Carlo Rossi, e nell'adiacente ala detta "Corpus Benois". Il museo fu istituito il 13 aprile del 1895, dopo l'incoronazione di Nicola II per commemorare il padre, Alessandro III. La collezione originale era composta da opere d'arte prelevate dall'Ermitage, dal Palazzo di Alessandro e dall'Accademia Imperiale delle Arti. A seguito della Rivoluzione russa, molte collezioni private furono nazionalizzate e ricollocate al Museo di Stato Russo. Tra queste era inclusa la prima e più preziosa versione del Quadrato nero di Kazimir Malevič. Le altre sedi del museo sono il Palazzo d'Estate di Pietro I , il Palazzo di Marmo del conte Orlov , il Castello Michailovskij dell'Imperatore Paolo I , e il Palazzo Stroganov, progettato da Bartolomeo Rastrelli .
