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Regno Unito

Il Regno Unito, ufficialmente Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord , è uno Stato insulare dell'Europa occidentale con una popolazione di circa 64,5 milioni di abitanti. Il Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda nacque con l'Atto di Unione del 1800 che univa il Regno di Gran Bretagna e il Regno d'Irlanda. Gran parte dell'Irlanda si separò poi nel 1922 costituendo lo Stato Libero d'Irlanda . Stato unitario, attualmente composto da quattro nazioni costitutive : Inghilterra, Scozia, Galles e Irlanda del Nord., è governato da un sistema parlamentare, con capitale e sede del governo Londra. Spesso viene impropriamente chiamato Gran Bretagna o Inghilterra, quando in realtà con il termine Gran Bretagna si indica un territorio geografico e con il termine Inghilterra si indica solo una delle quattro nazioni che compongono il regno.Situato al largo delle coste occidentali dell'Europa settentrionale circondato a est dal mare del Nord, a sud dal Canale della Manica e ad ovest dall'oceano Atlantico e dal mare d'Irlanda, le Isole del Canale e l'Isola di Man sono dipendenze della Corona britannica, ma non fanno parte del Regno Unito.. La Gran Bretagna è l'isola comprendente la maggior parte del territorio dell'Inghilterra, del Galles e della Scozia. Le isole britanniche invece sono l'arcipelago comprendente la Gran Bretagna, l'Irlanda, l'Isola di Man, l'Isola di Wight, le isole Orcadi, le isole Ebridi, le isole Shetland, le Isole del Canale e altre isole minori. Si compone anche di quattordici territori d'oltremare che costituiscono i resti dell'Impero britannico, quali Anguilla, Bermuda, il Territorio Antartico Britannico, il Territorio britannico dell'Oceano Indiano, le Isole Vergini britanniche, le Isole Cayman, le Isole Falkland, Gibilterra, Montserrat, le Isole Pitcairn, Sant'Elena, Ascensione e Tristan da Cunha, Georgia del Sud e Isole Sandwich Meridionali, Akrotiri e Dhekelia e Turks e Caicos. Il Regno Unito è una monarchia parlamentare e la regina Elisabetta II è anche il capo di Stato di 16 paesi membri del Commonwealth delle nazioni , detti reami del Commonwealth . È stato il primo Stato del mondo ad essere industrializzato, e ha costituito storicamente il modello di democrazia parlamentare moderna al quale si sono poi rifatti quelli delle altre nascenti democrazie europee occidentali. Fu una potenza di prim'ordine, soprattutto durante il XVIII, il XIX e gli inizi del XX secolo, ma il costo economico delle due guerre mondiali e il declino del suo grande impero coloniale, nella seconda metà del XX secolo, segnarono un chiaro ridimensionamento della sua influenza nel mondo. Malgrado ciò, e in virtù della tenacia con la quale combatté nella Seconda guerra mondiale sino alla vittoria contro le potenze dell'Asse, cosa che gli valse l'attribuzione del seggio permanente con diritto di veto nel Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, esso continua ad esercitare, a livello internazionale, una considerevole influenza in campo politico e militare oltre che scientifico e finanziario. Con un PIL nominale stimato sui 3000 miliardi di dollari secondo il Fondo monetario internazionale, è la quinta potenza economica mondiale, dopo Stati Uniti, Cina, Giappone, e Germania, e la seconda in Europa . Il Regno Unito è uno stato con uno degli indici di sviluppo umano più elevati del mondo. È membro fondatore dell'ONU e della NATO e membro del G8 e del G7. Il Regno Unito è stato inoltre membro dell'Unione europea dal 1º gennaio 1973 al 31 gennaio 2020, ma non ha mai fatto parte dell'unione economica e monetaria dell'Unione europea, ossia non ha mai adottato la moneta unica, l'euro.

Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust

Sheffield

Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, known as Museums Sheffield is a charity created in 1998 to run Sheffield City Council’s non-industrial museums and galleries. Museums Sheffield currently manages three sites in the city: Graves Art Gallery, Millennium Gallery and Weston Park Museum. It is run from offices at Leader House on Surrey Street. The trust is responsible for the care of the city's historic collections, including visual and decorative art, social history, archaeology and natural sciences. Its mission is 'to connect with our visitors, share stories about Sheffield and the wider world, and care for the city's collections'.

Bury Art Museum

Bury (Grande Manchester)

Bury Art Museum is a public museum and art gallery in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, northern England, owned by Bury Council.Formerly known as Bury Museum and Art Gallery, it was renamed Bury Art Museum in 2011. The museum is home to the Wrigley Collection, an assemblage of over two hundred oil paintings, watercolours, prints and ceramics accumulated by the Victorian paper manufacturer Thomas Wrigley . The collection includes works by Turner, Constable, and Landseer. The donation of his collection to Bury was the impetus for the foundation and construction of the museum and art gallery. The building was designed by the Manchester firm of Woodhouse and Willoughby. Donations of artworks quickly followed its opening on 9 October 1901 by the Earl of Derby, including donations from the town's Member of Parliament James Kenyon. In 2005, a £1.2 million refurbishment was carried out, designed to provide a brand new museum, art gallery and library all under one roof. This includes a combined Museum and Archives Centre which, based on a radical re-think, uses artefacts, documentation and art to tell the story of the town. The most recent renovation includes modern artefacts such as iPods and electric iRobot vacuum cleaners. The council decided in 2006 to sell Lowry's painting The Riverbank at auction in order to fund part of its social services budget shortfall. This has resulted in the government's Museums, Libraries and Archives Council removing Bury Council's accredited museum status. The authority will now have limited funding options and will be ineligible for some grants.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art, ceramics, metalwork, jewellery, natural history, archaeology, ethnography, local history and industrial history.The museum/gallery is run by Birmingham Museums Trust, the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom, which also runs eight other museums around the city. Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee.

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

Coventry

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum is a museum, art gallery, records archive, learning centre, media studio and creative arts facility on Jordan Well, Coventry, England.

Towner Gallery

Eastbourne

Towner Art Gallery is located in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on the south coast of England. It hosts one of the most significant public art collections in the South of England and draws over 100,000 visitors a year. It was described by ITV News as "the region's biggest art gallery", in 2017.It was established with a bequest in 1920, from John Chisholm Towner who had served as a local alderman. It was first homed in Manor Gardens, adjacent to Gildredge Park in the Old Town area of Eastbourne. Opening there in 1923, it closed when the building was sold in 2005. In 2009, it re-opened in a purpose-built facility adjacent to the Congress Theatre, near Eastbourne's seafront.

Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Derby (Regno Unito)

Il Derby Museum and Art Gallery è stato fondato nel 1879, insieme alla Derby Central Library, in un nuovo edificio progettato da Richard Knill Freeman e donato alla città di Derby da Michael Thomas Bass. La collezione comprende un'esposizione dei dipinti di Joseph Wright of Derby, un'ampia mostra di ceramiche della Royal Crown Derby oltre ad altre porcellane di Derby e della zona circostante. Sono anche esposti pezzi di archeologia, storia naturale, geologia e collezioni militari. La Galleria d'arte è aperta dal 1882.

Dorset County Museum

Dorchester (Dorset)

The Dorset County Museum is located in Dorchester, Dorset, England. Founded in 1846, the museum covers the county of Dorset's history and environment. The current building was built in 1881 on the former site of the George Inn. The building was designed specifically to house the museum's collection and is in the neo-Gothic style. The museum includes information and over 2 million artifacts associated with archaeology , geology , history, local writers and natural science. There are video displays, activity carts for children, and an audio guide. The collections include fossilised dinosaur footprints, Roman mosaics and original Thomas Hardy manuscripts.

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Warrington

Warrington Museum & Art Gallery is on Bold Street in the Cultural Quarter of Warrington in a Grade II listed building that it shares with the town's Central Library. The Museum and the Library originally opened in 1848 as the first rate-supported library in the UK, before moving to their current premises in 1858. The art galleries were subsequently added in 1877 and 1931. Operated by Culture Warrington, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery has the distinction of being one of the oldest municipal museums in the UK and much of the quintessential character of the building has been preserved.

Brotherton Library

Leeds

The Brotherton Library is a 1936 Grade II listed Beaux-Arts building with some art deco fittings, located on the main campus of the University of Leeds. It was designed by the firm of Lanchester & Lodge, and is named after Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, who in 1927 donated £100,000 to the university as funding for its first purpose-built library. The Brotherton Library is a hub in what has become Leeds University Library. Initially, it contained all of the university's books and manuscripts, with the exception of books housed in the separate Medical Library and Clothworkers' Library. Its contents cover the main collections in arts and languages and the Special Collections' Research Centre. It also houses part of the University Library's administration. Science, engineering and social science research collections are located in the Edward Boyle Library, opened in 1975. The Laidlaw Library opened in 2015 contains core texts for undergraduates and a high demand collection. The Health Sciences Library, housed in the Worsley Building since 1977, contains the University Library's medical and related collections, with a small satellite library at St James's University Hospital. Leeds University Library is also responsible for the University Archives, the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, the Treasures Gallery and the International Textile Collection.