Kirkcaldy Galleries is the main museum, library and exhibition space in Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland.
The land for the town's museum and art gallery was donated by John Nairn on the former site of Balsusney House, the home of John Maxton. This was opened in 1925, with the first chairman of trustees local cloth-manufacturer businessman John Blyth, the maternal grandfather of politician Michael Portillo.
The art gallery holds the largest collection of paintings by William McTaggart and Scottish Colourist Samuel Peploe aside from the National Galleries of Scotland.
The museum contains many significant works by the Glasgow Boys. Situated on the ground floor, is the museum's award-winning permanent exhibition covering the town's industrial heritage. The museum also has a cafe which displays examples of Wemyss Ware pottery, made in the town from around the 1890s to 1930s.In 2012 Fife Council undertook a £2.5m refurbishment of the building, which reopened in June 2013. It now contains a museum, library, children's library, PC suite, cafe, gift shop, meeting rooms, museum, local family and history rooms and gallery spaces.
The Galleries opening was attended by local author Val McDermid, Wolf from
Gladiators, MP and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and artist Jack Vettriano.
In 2015, Kirkcaldy Galleries became the first institution in Fife to display work by American photographer Diane Arbus.
The Museum of Croydon is a museum located within the Croydon Clocktower arts facility in Central Croydon, England. It showcases historical and cultural artefacts relating to the London Borough of Croydon and its people. The museum is owned and run by Croydon Council.
It is located on the upper ground floor of Croydon Clocktower, but also incorporates the Riesco Gallery, on the lower ground floor, which displays Roman and Anglo-Saxon collections and a collection of Chinese ceramics. The museum originally opened under the name Lifetimes in 1995; and re-opened under its present name, following a major redevelopment and redesign, in 2006. Admission is free, and many of the displays are hands-on and interactive.
O National Army Museum é o principal museu do Exército Britânico. Ele está localizado no distrito Chelsea, na região central de Londres, Inglaterra, ao lado do Royal Hospital Chelsea. O National Army Museum é aberto ao público todos os dias do ano, das 10 da manhã às 17:30, exceto em 24-26 dezembro e 1º de janeiro. A entrada é gratuita.
The Leicester Museum & Art Gallery is a museum on New Walk in Leicester, England, not far from the city centre. It opened in 1849 as one of the first public museums in the United Kingdom. New Walk contains displays of science, history and art, both international and local. The original building was designed by Joseph Hansom, designer of the hansom cab. It has been expanded several times, most recently in 2011.
The Shipley Art Gallery is an art gallery in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, located at the south end of Prince Consort Road. It has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Edinburgh College of Art is one of eleven Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, history of art, and music disciplines for over two thousand students, and is at the forefront of research and research-led teaching in the creative arts, humanities, and creative technologies. ECA comprises five subject areas: School of Art, Reid School of Music, School of Design, School of History of Art, and Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture . ECA is mainly located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, overlooking the Grassmarket; the Lauriston Place campus is located in the University of Edinburgh's Central Area Campus, not far from George Square.
The college was founded in 1760, and gained its present name and site in 1907. Formerly associated with Heriot-Watt University, its degrees have been issued by the University of Edinburgh since 2004. The College formally merged with the University on 1 August 2011, combining with the School of Arts, Culture and Environment and continues to exist with the name Edinburgh College of Art as an enlarged school in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
A Biblioteca Britânica é a Biblioteca Nacional do Reino Unido, uma das maiores do mundo. Atualmente, o seu acervo possui aproximadamente 150 milhões de itens e a cada ano incorporam-se à coleção cerca de três milhões de itens novos.
The Liechtenstein Museum is a private art museum in Vienna, Austria. It contains much of the art collection of its owners, the Princely Family of Liechtenstein, rulers of the principality of Liechtenstein. It includes important European works of art, forming one of the world's leading private art collections. Its highlight used to be Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, which was acquired in 1967 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The museum, which was originally open to the public from the early 19th century until the Anschluss of 1938, had various locations, including the Liechtenstein Garden Palace at Fürstengasse 1 in Vienna's 9th District , and the Liechtenstein City Palace at Bankgasse 9 in Vienna's 1st District . The museum was reopened on 29 March 2004 in the Garden Palace, but after battling with low visitor numbers, it was closed for regular visiting by the public in November 2011. According to the official website of the Garden Palace, "the highlights of the princely collections can be viewed exclusively as part of an event package or a pre-booked guided tour".Objects from the collection have been sent on touring exhibitions to museums in other countries, especially the United States. In particular, displays are regularly mounted at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz, which is otherwise a gallery for a modern art collection donated to the principality of Liechtenstein by the ruling family. Other works from the collection fill the palaces and residences of the Princely Family in Liechtenstein and Austria.
A catalogue of the artists featured in the gallery at the time of Prince Joseph Wenzel was compiled by Vicenzo Fanti in 1767.
The Usher Gallery is an art museum in Lincoln, England. The gallery displays a collection of artworks by painters such as J. M. W. Turner and L. S. Lowry. Established in 1927, it is run as part of the Collection. According to 2019 proposals by the Lincolnshire County Council, the gallery is scheduled for closure.
O Museu e Galeria de Arte de Kelvingrove é um museu e galeria de arte em Glasgow, na Escócia. O edifício abriga uma das grandes colecções europeias sobre arte cívica. Desde a sua renovação em 2003-2006, o museu tem sido a mais popular atracção gratuita na Escócia. É o museu mais visitado no Reino Unido fora de Londres.
Está localizado na Argyle Street, no West End da cidade, nas margens do rio Kelvin. É adjacente ao Kelvingrove Park e está situado imediatamente abaixo do principal campo da Universidade de Glasgow em Gilmorehill.
O Museu de Arte de Filadélfia, localizado na cidade de Filadélfia, nos Estados Unidos foi criado em 1876 e hoje é um dos maiores e mais importantes museus dos Estados Unidos. É conhecido localmente como o The Art Museum e sua coleção abriga mais de 225 000 objetos. Todos os anos, o museu apresenta 15 a 20 mostras especiais e é visitado por cerca de 800 000 pessoas. Algumas das maiores e mais famosas mostras, que atraíram centenas de milhares de pessoas de todo o país e de outros lugares do mundo, incluíram as de Paul Cézanne e de Salvador Dalí .
Além de sua arquitetura e suas coleções, o museu é famoso pelo papel que teve em uma famosa cena dos filmes de Rocky Balboa, interpretado por Sylvester Stallone. É comum ver os visitantes imitarem a famosa cena das escadarias, que agora são normalmente chamadas de Rocky Steps . Uma estátua de bronze de Rocky foi colocada no topo das escadas para as filmagens de Rocky III e Rocky V. Logo depois foi removida do local, mas agora pode ser novamente vista no mesmo lugar.
Por causa de sua localização, no final da Benjamin Franklin Parkway, o Museu tem sido sede de vários shows, entre eles o Live 8.
O local foi designado, em 2 de julho de 1973, um edifício do Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos.
The Wellcome Library is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome , whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century. Henry Wellcome's interest was the history of medicine in a broad sense and included subjects such as alchemy or witchcraft, but also anthropology and ethnography. Since Henry Wellcome’s death in 1936, the Wellcome Trust has been responsible for maintaining the Library's collection and funding its acquisitions. The library is free and open to the public.
The National Railway Museum is a museum in York forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant railway vehicles such as Mallard, Stirling Single, Duchess of Hamilton and a Japanese bullet train. In addition, the National Railway Museum holds a diverse collection of other objects from a household recipe book used in George Stephenson’s house to film showing a "never stop railway" developed for the British Empire Exhibition. It has won many awards, including the European Museum of the Year Award in 2001.
As of 2019 the museum is about to embark on a major site development. As part of the York Central redevelopment which will divert Leeman Road, the National Railway Museum will be building a new entrance building to connect the two separate parts of the museum together. At the same time, the space around the museum will be landscaped to provide public spaces.In 2020 architectural practice Feilden Fowles won an international competition to create the museum’s new £16.5 million Central Hall building—a key element of the museum’s Vision 2025 masterplan.
O Museu dos Agostinhos, também conhecido como Museu de Belas-Artes da cidade de Toulouse, é um museu instalado em um mosteiro gótico da cidade de Toulouse, na França. Possui uma rica coleção de esculturas medievais, uma das mais importantes da França, e de pinturas que abrangem desde a Idade Média até o século XIX.
The Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery is a museum in Carlisle, Cumbria, in England. Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted. At first the building contained the museum and also a library, an art school and a technical school.The building, including the extensions, is a Grade I listed building, and the wall, gates and railings in front of the house are separately Grade I listed.The two schools were moved in the 1950s and the library in 1986. The museum expanded into the city Guildhall in 1980 and with new space available from 1986 it underwent an extensive redevelopment over 1989–90 and again in 2000–01.
Since May 2011 the museum has been an independent charitable trust, the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust. It is one of the three members of the Cumbria Museum Consortium, along with Lakeland Arts and the Wordsworth Trust. In 2012–15 and 2015–18 this consortium was one of the 21 museums or consortia to be funded by Arts Council England as "Major Partner Museums".
The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, rare books, and manuscripts reflects the development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period onward.
Os Reais museus de Belas-Artes da Bélgica são:
Museu Antoine Wiertz
Museu Constantin Meunier
Museu de Arte Antiga de Bruxelas
Museu de Arte Moderna de Bruxelas
The National Art Gallery–Alexandros Soutzos Museum is an art museum located in the Pangrati district, Athens, Greece. It is devoted to Greek and European art from the 14th century to the 20th century. It is directed by Marina Lambraki-Plaka.
Closed and renovating now. 06.04.2019.
