Somerville College é uma das faculdades constituintes da Universidade de Oxford, na Inglaterra. A faculdade tem uma excelente reputação e uma excelente satisfação dos estudantes entre as faculdades de Oxford. Somerville tem a maior biblioteca universitária de Oxford e é conhecida por sua atmosfera amigável e liberal, arquitetura variada e excelente comida de salão. Somerville é uma das três únicas faculdades de Oxford que oferece acomodação no local para todos os alunos de graduação durante o curso.
Foi uma das duas primeiras faculdades de mulheres em Oxford. Somerville College foi fundada como Somerville Hall em 1879. Tornou-se Somerville College em 1894. Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, o colégio foi convertido em um hospital militar. Os pacientes notáveis que ficaram em Somerville incluem Robert Graves e Siegfried Sassoon.
Em 2017 tinha recebido uma doação de 73,4 milhões de libras esterlinas. Está localizado na Woodstock Road. O colégio tem 600 estudantes. O diretor do colégio é Janet Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon.
Ex-alunos conhecidos incluem Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Vera Brittain, Dorothy L. Sayers, Susan Cooper, Philippa Foot, Kathleen Kenyon, Averil Cameron, Shriti Vadera, Caroline Series, Rose Macaulay, Margaret Jay, Baronesa Jay de Paddington, Lilian Faithfull, Emilia Frances Noel e Emma Kirkby. Seus ex-alunos desempenharam um papel muito importante no feminismo.
Instituto de Pesquisa Polar Scott ) é um centro de pesquisa sobre as regiões polares e glaciologia. O Instituto faz parte de Departamento de Geografia da Universidade de Cambridge, localizado na Estrada Lensfield ao sul de Cambridge.
Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. Queens' is one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, and has some of the most recognisable buildings in Cambridge. The college spans the river Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light side" and the "dark side", with the Mathematical Bridge connecting the two.
The college's alumni include heads of government and politicians from various countries, royalty, religious leaders, astronauts and Oscar nominees. Examples are Stephen Fry, Abba Eban and T. H. White. Its most famous matriculant is Desiderius Erasmus, who studied at the college during his trips to England between 1506 and 1515.
As of June 2016, the college held non-current assets valued at £111.18 million.The current president of the college is the senior economist and Labour Party adviser Lord Eatwell. Past presidents include Saint John Fisher.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery in the Drake Circus area of Plymouth, Devon, England was built in 1907–10 by Thornely and Rooke in Edwardian Baroque style. The building closed in late 2016. Along with the former Central Library building and St Luke's Church on Tavistock Place, it has since been redeveloped into The Box, Plymouth. This major new museum, gallery and archive is scheduled to open in 2020.
Palazzo Schifanoia is a Renaissance palace in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna built for the Este family. The name "Schifanoia" is thought to originate from "schivar la noia" meaning literally to "escape from boredom" which describes accurately the original intention of the palazzo and the other villas in close proximity where the Este court relaxed. The highlights of its decorations are the allegorical frescoes with details in tempera by or after Francesco del Cossa and Cosmè Tura, executed ca 1469–70, a unique survival of their time.
This palace forms part of a catalogue of pleasure palaces for the Este family, including the following:
Delizia di Belriguardo a Voghiera
Delizia del Verginese a Portomaggiore
Castello di Mesola a Mesola
Villa della Mensa a Sabbioncello San Vittore
Delizia di Benvignante ad Argenta, ItalyThe Palace of Belfiore which once held the Studiolo of the Palazzo Belfiore, no longer exists.
Oxford Brookes University is a new university in Oxford, England. It can trace its origins to 1865, when it was founded as the Oxford School of Art. It became a university in 1992 and was renamed to honour its former principal, John Henry Brookes.
Oxford Brookes University is spread across four campuses, with three primary sites based in and around Oxford and the fourth campus located in Swindon. In 2020 Oxford Brookes University won its appeal against the local council to demolish its Wheatley campus and build houses on the site. Brookes has approximately 18,000 students, 2,800 staff and over 130,000 alumni in over 189 countries. The university is divided into four faculties: Oxford Brookes Business School, Health and Life Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Technology, Design and Environment. Oxford Brookes University's partnership with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants allows ACCA students to earn a BSc in applied accounting with the submission of a research and analysis project work while taking their ACCA examinations. The university also has schools of architecture and law. Brookes is a member of the University Alliance mission group.
O National Museum of American History é destinado ao desenvolvimento da ciência, cultura, tecnologia e politica dos Estados Unidos. Construido na capital do país, em Washington D.C, o local traz artefatos, fotos e arquivos que datam o período colonial do pais até os dias de hoje. Ao todo, três milhões de objetos e documentos constituem o acervo do museu.
Palace House is the home of the National Horse Racing Museum in the remaining part of Charles II's racing palace in Newmarket, Suffolk, England. It is home to the National Horse Racing Museum, the British Sporting Art Trust and Retraining of Racehorses, and was opened by Elizabeth II in 2016.
O Museu de Arte Crocker é um museu de artes localizado em Sacramento, na Califórnia. O local abriga uma das principais coleções de arte californiana. Podem ser encontradas obras que datam desde a corrida do ouro até os dias atuais, desenhos e pinturas europeus, uma das maiores coleções de cerâmica de todo o mundo, incluindo Ásia, África e Oceania.
Cannon Hall is a country house museum located between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland some 5 miles west of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Originally the home of the Spencer and later the Spencer-Stanhope family, it now houses collections of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware. It at one time housed the Regimental Museum of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and the Light Dragoons, which has now closed. Now occupying four rooms in the east wing is the "Family of Artists" exhibition on loan from the De Morgan Foundation, which draws on the links between the Spencer Stanhopes and the De Morgans.The building is constructed of coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings with a symmetrical layout of a central 3-storey block of 5 bays and slightly set back 2-storey side wings of 3 bays.
A Biblioteca Ambrosiana é uma biblioteca histórica em Milão, que também abriga a Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, uma galeria de arte. Seu nome vem de Ambrósio, o santo padroeiro de Milão.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design is an art museum in Providence affiliated with the Rhode Island School of Design, in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The museum was founded in 1877 and is the 20th largest art museum in the United States.
Antony House is the name of an early 18th-century house, which today is in the ownership of the National Trust. It is located between the town of Torpoint and the village of Antony in the county of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a Grade I listed building.
The house is faced in silvery-grey Pentewan stone, flanked by colonnaded wings of mellow brick and overlooks the River Lynher. It was built for Sir William Carew, 5th Baronet between 1718 and 1724, and ever since has continued as the primary residence of the Carew family, who have owned the estate since the mid-16th century. Sir John Carew Pole gave the house and formal gardens into the care of the National Trust in 1961, on the understanding that the family could continue to reside there. Currently Tremayne Carew Pole, lives there with his family.
The house and gardens are open to viewing by the public between March and October.
Dunham Massey Hall, usually known simply as Dunham Massey, is an English country house in the parish of Dunham Massey in the district of Trafford, near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. It is now a National Trust property, open to the public. During World War I it was the Stamford Military Hospital.The stately home was designated a Grade One listed-building on 5 March 1959. It has been owned by the National Trust since the death of the 10th and last Earl of Stamford in 1976. Over 340,000 people visited the house in 2014/15, placing it in the ten most popular National Trust houses.Dunham Massey was built in the early 17th century by the Earls of Warrington, passing to the Earls of Stamford by inheritance; the family still live in part of the house. There were significant alterations, especially internally, at the start of the 20th century. It has historic formal gardens and a deer park. The park and gardens are listed Grade II* on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. It was formerly in the ancient parish of Bowdon, Cheshire.
O Museu Nacional de Arte da Catalunha , também conhecido pela sua sigla MNAC, é um museu situado no Palácio Nacional, na colina de Montjuïc, na cidade de Barcelona, na Catalunha, na Espanha. Sua missão é preservar e expor a sua coleção de arte catalã, uma das mais importantes do mundo, e mostrá-la em sua totalidade, a partir do românico até o presente.Destaca-se pela sua coleção de arte Românica, considerada uma das mais completas do mundo. O diretor do museu é Josep Serra i Villalba. O MNAC é um consórcio, com personalidade jurídica própria, constituída pelo Governo da Catalunha, pela Câmara Municipal de Barcelona e pela Administração Geral do Estado. Os curadores do museu estão representados por, além do governo, indivíduos e entidades privadas.
O atual museu constitui-se em 1990 com a junção das coleções do Museu de Arte Moderna, criado em 1945, e do Museu de Arte da Catalunha, inaugurado em 1934. Às peças procedentes destes museus, juntou-se uma nova secção de numismática, outra de gravuras, assim como os fundos da Biblioteca Geral de História de Arte. Mais tarde, em 1996, juntou-se um novo departamento dedicado à fotografia. Em 2006, o museu possuía já quase 250 000 obras nas diferentes coleções. Além das exposições temporárias e das itinerantes, o museu realiza, também, outras funções como estudo, conservação e restauro de obras de arte.
A sede principal encontra-se situada no Palácio Nacional, edifício situado na montanha de Montjuïc, inaugurado em 1929 no âmbito da Exposição Internacional de Barcelona de 1929. Além disso, outras três instituições fazem parte do conjunto do museu: a Biblioteca; o Museu Víctor Balaguer de Vilanova i la Geltrú, o Museu de la Garrotxa em Olot, e o Museu Cau Ferrat de Sitges.
The Musée départemental de l'Oise is a museum in the former bishop's palace in Beauvais, Oise, in northern France. It is classified as a historical monument.
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is a museum located in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, featuring several art collections. The permanent collection includes examples of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculpture, Southern regional art, Old Master prints and decorative arts. It is also home to ARTWORKS, a participatory art gallery and studio for children.
The current building was designed by the Montgomery architectural firm of Barganier, Davis, and Sims and opened in 1988. An addition was completed in 1993.
