The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the principal U.S. art museums, with paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri, where it is visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free through a subsidy from the cultural tax district for St. Louis City and County.In addition to the featured exhibitions, the museum offers rotating exhibitions and installations. These include the Currents series, which features contemporary artists, as well as regular exhibitions of new media art and works on paper.
Poole Museum is a local history museum situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset, and is part of the Borough of Poole Museum Service. Entrance to Poole Museum is free, and the museum is the fifth most visited free attraction in South West England.
The People's History Museum in Manchester, England, is the UK's national centre for the collection, conservation, interpretation and study of material relating to the history of working people in the UK. It is located in a grade II-listed, former hydraulic pumping station on the corner of the Bridge Street and Water Street designed by Manchester Corporation City Architect, Henry Price.The museum tells the story of the history of in Great Britain and about people's lives at home, work and leisure over the last 200 years. The collection contains printed material, physical objects and photographs of people at work, rest and play. Some of the topics covered include popular radicalism, the Peterloo Massacre, 19th century trade unionism, the women's suffrage movement, dockers, the cooperative movement, the 1945 general election, and football. It also includes material relating to friendly societies, the welfare movement and advances in the lives of working people.
The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. , donated most of his extensive collection to the museum. This single gift significantly expanded the museum's collection, making it one of the major art museums in the Southeastern United States. From 1958 to 1971, the Chrysler Museum of Art was a smaller museum consisting solely of Chrysler's personal collection and housed in the historic Center Methodist Church in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Today's museum sits on a small body of water known as The Hague.
The Ben Uri Gallery & Museum is a registered museum and charity currently sited at 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, England. It features the work and lives of émigré artists in London, and describes itself as "The Art Museum for Everyone".
Galeria Nacional Escocesa de Retratos
A Galeria Nacional Escocesa de Retratos é um museu de arte na Queen Street, Edimburgo. A galeria possui as coleções nacionais de retratos, todos de escoceses, mas não necessariamente de artistas nacionais. Também possui a Coleção Nacional Escocesa de Fotografia. Desde 1889, está instalada num edifício neogótico de arenito vermelho, projetado por Robert Rowand Anderson e construído entre 1885 e 1890 para acomodar a galeria e a coleção de museus da Sociedade de Antiquários da Escócia. O edifício foi doado por John Ritchie Findlay, proprietário do jornal The Scotsman. Em 1985, o Museu Nacional de Antiguidades da Escócia foi fundido com o Museu Real Escocês, e posteriormente transferido para a Chambers Street como parte do Museu Nacional da Escócia. A Galeria de Retratos foi expandida para ocupar todo o edifício e reabriu em 1 de dezembro de 2011 após ser fechada desde abril de 2009 para a primeira reforma abrangente em sua história, realizada pela Page\Park Architects.O museu faz parte das Galerias Nacionais da Escócia, um órgão público que também possui a Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna e a Galeria Nacional, em Edimburgo.
Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust. Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Irish seat of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry. The house and its contents reflect the history of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, who played a leading role in British and Irish social and political life.
The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum is a Gothic Revival-style building, located in the centre of Dundee, Scotland. The building houses a museum and art gallery with a collection of fine and decorative art as well as a natural history collection. It is protected as a Category A listed building.The concept for the building was originally commissioned as a memorial to Prince Albert and intended to contain room for lectures, museum, picture gallery and a reference library for students by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was agreed that the funding for the building should be provided by the inhabitants of Dundee. Although the city could not afford such a lavish memorial outright, it did contribute £300. A guaranteed fund of £4,205 15/- from 168 contributors was collected which included a munificent gift from the Baxter family which totalled £420.The building was designed by the architect George Gilbert Scott, who was an expert for the restoration of mediaeval churches and advocate of the Gothic architectural style. He intended to design a large tower like in his previous work at St. Nikolai, Hamburg. The foundations were situated in a small wetland called Quaw Bog at the confluence of the Scourin Burn and Friar Burn, which has since been drained. This meant that the area under the building site was underpinned by large wood beams. However, when construction began in 1865, the ground proved too unstable to support the larger tower that he envisaged. The building was opened as the Albert Institute in 1867. Two further sections, which extended the building by four art galleries and four museum galleries, were added by 1889. The central section was designed to Scott's intention by David MacKenzie, with the Eastern Galleries by William Alexander. The contents of the Watt Institute, founded in 1848, were incorporated into the collection before the opening of the civic museum and art gallery in 1873. Between 1873 and 1949, the buildings were administrated as part of public library service. From 1959, the city corporation took over the running of the administration. Ironically, following a later refurbishment the building now commemorates the Lord Provost Maurice McManus. Initially retitled McManus Galleries, after refurbishment in 2010, it is now formally known as The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum. In 1976, cracks were discovered in south-east corner of the building. The subsequent survey found that the building was partially subsiding. During 1979, remedial measures involved placing load-bearing concrete piles and cross-beams positioned to replace rotted timbers.The building was closed to the public on 24 October 2005 for a £7.8million redevelopment by Page\Park Architects and was reopened to the public on 28 February 2010. Currently, much of the McManus collection, which includes works by Dundee-based artists James McIntosh Patrick and Alberto Morrocco, is located at the former Carnegie Library on Barrack Street. The collection includes three paintings by Thomas Musgrave Joy which celebrate Grace Darling's rescue of passengers on the paddlesteamer Forfarshire.
Museu das Belas Artes (Basileia)
O Museu das Belas Artes de Basileia, na Suíça, data do Século XVII com a aquisição do Gabinete Amerbach, um coleccionador Humanista da Pré-Reforma, e Basileia é assim a primeira municipalidade suíça a ter uma colecção de arte muito antes que tais colecções sejam aberta ao público noutras cidades da Europa . O museu é particularmente rico em obras e gravuras da Renânia dos Século XV e Século XVI do qual faz parte um conjunto de obras de Hans Holbein o Jovem, do seu pai Hans Holbein o Antigo e do seu irmão Ambrosius Holbein. Também é importante a colecção de obras entre 1850 a 1950 (Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin e Paul Cézanne; o cubismo, e o expressionismo alemão e a arte americana desde 1950 . Conjuntamente com o Museu de Arte e História de Genebra, e o Museu das Belas Artes de Zurique possui uma das principais colecções suíças de arte da renascença aos nossos dias.
Museu de Arte do Condado de Los Angeles
O Museu de Arte do Condado de Los Angeles localiza-se no Wilshire Boulevard, no distrito de Miracle Mile, na cidade estadunidense de Los Angeles. É o maior museu do oeste dos Estados Unidos.O LACMA é um museu quase enciclopédico: entre outras seções, tem arqueologia assíria, egípcia, grega e romana, pintura europeia e uma das maiores coleções de arte latino-americana.
A National Portrait Gallery é uma galeria de arte localizada em Londres, Inglaterra. Foi aberta ao público em 1856. Abriga fotografias, caricaturas, pinturas, desenhos e esculturas de pessoas famosas, por exemplo a escritora J.K.Rowling.
The Musée Hébert is a museum located in the Hôtel de Montmorency-Bours at 85, rue du Cherche-Midi, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It has been closed since 2004 for renovations. The museum is housed within the Petit-Montmorency, constructed in 1743 by the Comte de Montmorency, and former home of academic painter Ernest Hébert . After his adopted son's death in 1974, the building became state property and opened as a museum in 1984. Since 2004, the museum Hébert has been affiliated with the Musée d’Orsay, and indefinitely closed for renovations. The museum contains collections of Hébert's work, furniture, decorative items, souvenirs, and photographs, set within rooms almost unchanged since the 18th century. His paintings include portraits of literary critic Jules Lemaître, and two noted grandes horizontales, La Païva and Madame de Loynes.
Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
The Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre is a heritage attraction at Alexandra Dock, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, opened in 1991. The attraction is an Arts Council England Accredited Museum and holds a number of awards, including the TripAdvisor Hall of Fame, the Sandford Award for Heritage Education and the VisitEngland Quality Rose Marque. The centre was famed for its multi-sensory interpretation and lifelike manequins when it opened, winning the Attraction of the Year from the English Tourism Board and the Blue Peter Children's Museum of the Year award in 1993. It depicts the 1950s heyday of Great Grimsby's world famous fishing fleet, using displays consisting of preserved trawler interiors and carefully crafted recreations. The centre is also home to three historic fishing vessels. Perseverance is a sail trawler built in Boston Lincolnshire and is displayed in the main atrium of the museum. Ross Tiger is a 1957 side-trawler that is moored in the Alexandra Dock outside of the attraction. The G.I.C. or Esther is a large Grimsby sail trawler, built in 1888 at Alexandra Dock, close to the attraction. Tours of the Ross Tiger are available throughout the year, as well as a programme of temporary exhibitions in the attractions three gallery spaces.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies, and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of over 100,000 works spanning 6,000 years of human history make it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Midwest. Museum founders debated locating the museum in either Burnet Woods, Eden Park, or downtown Cincinnati on Washington Park. Charles West, the major donor of the early museum, cast his votes in favor of Eden Park sealing its final location. The Romanesque-revival building designed by Cincinnati architect James W. McLaughlin opened in 1886. A series of additions and renovations have considerably altered the building over its 134-year history. In 2003, a major addition, The Cincinnati Wing was added to house a permanent exhibit of art created for Cincinnati or by Cincinnati artists since 1788. The Cincinnati Wing includes fifteen new galleries covering 18,000 square feet of well-appointed space, and 400 objects. The Odoardo Fantacchiotti angels are two of the largest pieces in the collection. Fantacchiotti created these angels for the main altar of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in the late 1840s. They were among the first European sculptures to come to Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Wing also contains the work of Frank Duveneck, Rookwood Pottery, Robert Scott Duncanson, Mitchell & Rammelsberg Furniture, and a tall case clock by Luman Watson.
Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection
The Aberystwyth University Ceramic Collection & Archive is located in Aberystwyth, Wales. It holds one of the major collections of studio ceramics in Britain and is particularly noted for its studio pottery of the period 1920–1940. The permanent and temporary exhibitions from the collection are on display in the Ceramic Gallery in Aberystwyth Arts Centre and the archive office is located in the School of Art, Aberystwyth University. The Ceramic Bulletin is produced every two years by the university and it features news of activities including exhibitions, new acquisitions, research, awards and grants.
The Royal College of Physicians is a British professional body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded in 1518, it set the first international standard in the classification of diseases, and its library contains medical texts of great historical interest. The college hosts four training faculties: the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, the Faculty for Pharmaceutical Medicine, the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and the Faculty of Physician Associates. The college is sometimes referred to as the Royal College of Physicians of London to differentiate it from other similarly named bodies. Its home in Regent's Park is one of the few post-war buildings to be granted Grade I listed status. In 2016 it was announced that the North of England centre of excellence was to be based at a new building in the Liverpool Knowledge Quarter in Liverpool. The new centre is set to open in 2020.
Ministério da Defesa (Reino Unido)
O Ministério da Defesa é o departamento do governo britânico responsável pela execução da política de defesa estabelecido pelo Governo do Reino Unido, e é a sede das Forças Armadas do Reino Unido. O Ministério da Defesa afirma que seus principais objetivos são defender o Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e Irlanda do Norte e os seus interesses e garantir a paz e a estabilidade internacional. Com o colapso da União Soviética e o fim da Guerra Fria, o Ministério da Defesa não prevê qualquer ameaça militar convencional de curto prazo; ao contrário, ela identificou armas de destruição em massa, o terrorismo internacional, e Estados falidos como as ameaças imperiosa de interesse da Grã-Bretanha. O Ministério da Defesa também gerencia o dia-a-dia das forças armadas, planos de contingência e de aquisições de defesa.
A Biblioteca Bodleiana é a principal biblioteca de pesquisa da Universidade de Oxford, uma das mais antigas da Europa e na Inglaterra só perde em tamanho para a Biblioteca Britânica. Conhecida pelos eruditos de Oxford como "Bodley" ou simplesmente "the Bod", é um dos seis depósitos legais de publicações do Reino Unido. A Biblioteca Bodleiana foi inaugurada a 8 de novembro de 1602 com uma colecção de dois mil livros reunidos e oferecidos por Thomas Bodley para substituir a biblioteca doada à Divinity School por Humberto de Lencastre, Duque de Gloucester , e que tinha sido dispersa durante o século XVI. Entre muitos outros manuscritos encontra-se um iluminado do Romance da Rosa do século XIII e os apontamentos manuscritos de do romance O Senhor dos Anéis de J. R. R. Tolkien . É uma das cinco bibliotecas de registo de direitos de autor e com função de depósito legal no Reino Unido . Tem mais de 12 milhões de itens e é uma das bibliotecas de referência mundial.
