The Museum of Wigan Life is a public museum and local history resource centre in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The nineteenth-century listed building is by the noted architect Alfred Waterhouse. It originally housed Wigan Library, where George Orwell researched his book The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936.The museum works with other museums in Greater Manchester as part of the Greater Manchester Museums Group .
The Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, also known as the Merchant Company of Edinburgh or just the Merchant Company, is a company or society with a Royal Charter from 1681, but dating back to at least 1260. The Company or Confraternity was created to protect trading rights of the merchants of the royal burgh of Edinburgh. It also carries out a significant amount of charitable and educational work. Along with the Incorporated Trades it is one of the Guilds of the City of Edinburgh. The company historically formed part of the now defunct Corporation of the City of Edinburgh.
O Sir John Soane's Museum, é um edifício londrino projetado pelo arquiteto e colecionador John Soane . Situa-se na zona de Holborn no centro de Londres, no número 13 da Lincoln’s Inn Fields, e é sede de um pequeno museu que desde a morte de Soane, no século XIX, é aberto ao público. É um organismo público não-departamental , patrocinado pelo Departamento da Cultura, Média e Desporto.
Antiga casa de John Soane, o museu alberga numerosas obras de arte, entre os quais vários desenhos, pinturas e antiguidades. A sua fama deve-se não só ao valor das suas coleções, mas também à sua estética em particular. Nomeado como professor da Royal Academy em 1806, Soane começou a organizar seus livros, quadros, esculturas, maquetes e modelos de prédios clássicos e muitas outras peças, e abriu sua casa aos alunos. Alguns anos antes da sua morte, em 1837, o arquiteto negociou com Parlamento uma lei para que fossem preservadas a coleção e a casa, que se transformou em museu para benefício de “estudantes e amadores” da arquitetura, pintura e escultura.
A sua paixão pela antiguidade clássica pode ser vista nas peças da coleção, com 5888 objetos egípcios, gregos e romanos. A peça mais valiosa do museu é sem dúvida um sarcófago de alabastro do faraó Seti I, que foi comprado por Soane em 1825.
Relativamente à coleção de pintura, a obra mais conhecida é a de William Hogarth: as oito pinturas da vida de um libertino e as quatro da sua famosa sátira política A campanha eleitoral baseada na eleição parlamentar de Oxford de 1754. Existe também obras de Canaletto, Antoine Watteau, Samuel Scott, J.M.W. Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, Henry Howard, Henry Fuseli, Richard Westall, James Durno, Francis Bourgeois o William Hilton.
Sewerby Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian country house set in 50 acres of landscaped gardens in the village of Sewerby, 2 miles from the seaside town of Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
The main block was built circa 1714, incorporating some older work, in 3 storeys in brick with a seven window frontage. In 1808, 2-storey bow fronted wings and a semi-circular Doric portico were added and the whole building painted to resemble stone. The wings were later raised to 3 storeys.
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is part of the National Galleries of Scotland, which are based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The National Gallery of Modern Art houses the collection of modern and contemporary art dating from about 1900 to the present in two buildings, Modern One and Modern Two, that face each other on Belford Road to the west of the city centre.
The National Gallery has a collection of more than 6000 paintings, sculptures, installations, video work, prints and drawings and also stages major exhibitions.
The National Museum in Kraków , popularly abbreviated as MNK, established in 1879, is the main branch of Poland's National Museum, which has several independent branches with permanent collections around the country. The Museum consists of 21 departments which are divided by art period; 11 galleries, 2 libraries, and 12 conservation workshops. It holds some 780,000 art objects, spanning from classical archeology to modern art, with special focus on Polish painting.
O Museu de Belas Artes de Bilbau , situado em Bilbau, Espanha, é um dos museus de arte mais importantes do País Basco. A sua história é algo singular, pois surgiu graças ao patrocínio de colecionadores locais numa cidade com tradição artística relativamente curta e sem grandes coleções da nobreza ou clero. Foi oficialmente criado em 1908, mas só abriu as suas portas em 1914.
The Gordon Museum of Pathology is a medical museum that is part of King's College London in London, England. It is one of the largest pathology museums in the world and is the largest medical museum in the United Kingdom. Its primary function is to train medical, dental, biomedical and healthcare students and professionals to diagnose diseases.
A Gemäldegalerie é um museu de arte localizado na Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz em Berlim, na Alemanha, sendo um dos mais importantes do mundo por sua excelente coleção de arte européia dos séculos XIII ao XVIII.
Christ's Hospital, also known colloquially as CH, is an English coeducational independent day and boarding school with Royal Charter located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. Founded in 1552 and receiving its first Royal Charter in 1553, Christ's Hospital follows much of the public schools tradition. Since its establishment, Christ's Hospital has been a charity school, with a core aim to offer children from humble backgrounds the chance of a better education.
O Balliol College, fundado em 1263, é uma das instituições de ensino superior constituintes da Universidade de Oxford no Reino Unido.
Tradicionalmente, os alunos encontram-se entre os politicamente mais activos da universidade, e os alumni do instituto incluem vários antigos primeiro-ministros. Balliol atrai mais alunos internacionais do que os outros institutos superiores.
Durante o período de liderança de Benjamin Jowett no século XIX, o instituto escapa da relativa obscuridade para ocupar a primeira linha dos institutos superiores , continuando depois a ocupar um papel proeminente. Herbert Asquith descreveu uma vez os homens de Balliol como possuindo "a consciência tranquila de uma superioridade sem esforço".
Abadia de Monte Oliveto Maggiore é uma abadia pertencente a Igreja Católica de Toscana, Itália . Em 2007 houve 480 batizados dos 480 habitantes. Atualmente é regido pelo abade Diego Rosa.
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was adopted by the College. Its predecessor, Gloucester College, had been an institution of learning on the same site since the late 13th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. Founded as a men's college, Worcester has been coeducational since 1979.As of 2018, Worcester College had a financial endowment of £41.9 million.Notable alumni of the college include the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, television producer and screenwriter Russell T Davies, US Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, Fields Medalist Simon Donaldson, and novelist Richard Adams.
Worcester is consistently one of the most popular Oxford colleges amongst prospective applicants.
The Wisbech & Fenland Museum, located in the town of Wisbech in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, is one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the United Kingdom. The museum logo is W&F.
The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum is situated in Claughton, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England and houses the Wirral's art collection.
Opened on 1 December 1928, the single-storey building is Neo-Georgian in style, and was deliberately designed to blend in with the local surroundings. Financial support for its establishment was provided by John Williamson, a Director of the Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. and his son Patrick Williamson.Its collection includes Victorian oil paintings, including works by Albert Moore and Philip Steer, English watercolours, Liverpool Porcelain, and the UK's largest public collection of Della Robbia Pottery. It also has a large collection of ship models, focusing on Cammell Laird shipbuilders, the Mersey Ferries, and the vessels that used the River Mersey.
The gallery also hosts regular exhibitions that can include work by nationally and internationally renowned artists. There are regular musical concerts and the gallery is also a venue for art and crafts workshops.
O Whitney Museum of American Art, muitas vezes referida apenas como "Whitney", é um museu de arte contemporânea localizado em Nova York, Estados Unidos.
Em 1929, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ofereceu-se para dar os cerca de 600 obras que possuía, para o Metropolitan Museum of Art, mas teve sua doação dispensada. Dessa forma estas obras tornaram-se a base do Whitney Museum of American Art.
Sua coleção se baseava principalmente em artistas americanos, cujo trabalho tinha sido desprezado pelos críticos e acadêmicos da época.A coleção permanente do Whitney compreende mais de 19.000 pinturas, esculturas, desenhos, gravuras, fotografias, filmes, vídeos e novas mídias por mais de 2.900 artistas. Exposições anuais e a bienal do museu tem sido um local de encontro para os artistas mais jovens e menos conhecidos, que apresentam seus trabalhos no museu.
The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich , Germany, is a large collection of drawings, prints and engravings. It contains 400,000 sheets starting from the 15th century from various artists around the world. Along with Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, it is the most important collection of its kind in Germany. It is owned by the government of Bavaria and located within the Kunstareal, a museum quarter in the city centre of Munich.
